People Migrations in Europe and America: Nation Building Prehistory to 1913 ~ Secular and Spiritual
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A VISIT TO HISTORY ABOUT PEOPLE MIGRATIONS
Myrtle Macdonald
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Myrtle Ida Schneider Macdonald
An uncle of the author's mother arranged immigration in 1894 from Russia (now Ukraine) of 100 persecuted families. Her father in 1896 at 13 years of age migrated from Russia. She was born in 1921, and grew up in Vegreville, Alberta. Before the railway came in 1905 settlers were land hungry Catholic and Baptist Americans, Ontario youth (previously from Pennsylvania), and French from Quebec who had tried living in the USA. Next came various British, Slavic and German settlers and enough Jews to have a Synagogue. Orphaned English youths were adopted into her family.
Neighbors came to her father for advice in fluent English, German or Russian. Music and Drama Festivals, Agricultural and School Fairs and different churches, stimulated learning. Her mother was an avid reader of periodicals such as the Western Producer, Country Guide and local Vegreville Observer. Myrtle's teacher grades 2 to 8 who had a British Empire Loyalist mother and Scottish father, made history live. High school world history was fascinating, As a University of Alberta nursing student, in a history course Myrtle liked Phoebe’s hospice work in Rome, per St. Paul; two women co-translators of St. Jerome's Vulgate Bible; knights, monks and deaconess service to refugees; differing histories of nurses and doctors.
At McGill University, Montreal, she gained skill in Participant Observation and Systems Analysis Research, graduating in 1971 M.Sc.A in Nursing and Social Sciences. She authored professional articles and a Remotivation Therapy textbook. She taught in university and other schools of nursing in Canada and overseas, worked in six Canadian provinces and four eastern countries among various indigenous cultures and Muslims, and traveled world wide.
The author gathered data for family biographies from government archives in Poland and Zhytomir, Ukraine, and several east European historians. Her family biographies have been on hold to be finished next year. Dr. Samuel Marx, born in Ladakh, Kashmir to Moravian missionaries, married a nursing classmate, herself born in a Moravian pioneer family in Bruderfeld, now Millwoods a suburb of Edmonton. They informed her of the genius and wide influence of Educator Comenius, and recommended the book by J. Taylor Hamilton, found by local librarians. A Presbyterian theologian provided Calvinist and Reformed history. Irish and Scottish history was enriched through relatives of her late husband Dr. A.R.S. Macdonald.
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WHY THIS RESEARCH WAS UNDERTAKEN
Myrtle Ida Schneider Macdonald, having all her life had a keen interest in history, realized that there were and are many important aspects omitted, or barely mentioned by all historians, whether Roman Catholic, Protestant or Secular, throughout the ages. She set out to fill in these gaps in one volume, succinctly, concisely and documented accurately. She was determined to correlate events happening simultane-ously in every part of Europe and America. See more about the author in front pages iv - vi.
Here is significant history overlooked. The granddaughter of Christmas carol “Good King Wenceslas” of Bohemia/Moravia married Richard II of England. Her courtiers studying at Oxford University, became protestant through John Wycliffe who translated the Bible. Through them the Chancellor of Charles University, Jon Hus believed, preached to thousands who eagerly sang hymns that he and others composed. In 1415 he was martyred. In 1457 the pacifist protestant Unitas Fratrum (United Brethren; Moravian church) was inaugurated and has had ongoing worldwide influence.
Few historians mention that Huguenots (French Protestants) were major world explorers, ship builders, artisans, silk producers and manufacturers of bells. Because of the Inquisition (ethnic cleansing) they sought refuge in and developed many countries.
The history of Muslims is included in detail. Their thorough knowledge of Greek Classics was expanded especially in Spain, stimulating the Renaissance.
The author took a keen interest in searching for and recording trends in the classics, science, architecture, art and music so as to help professors, teachers and their students, and the general public, gain a fuller appreciation of the implications of events and life styles of many cultures. There is much about the skills of indigenous peoples in Europe and America.
Dates are kept at the left on every page, as a visual aid to enable the reader to inter-relate events happening in other places at the same time, concurrently. The many cross- references help with continuity of correlation. The Table of Contents includes meaningful details. There is a Bibliography of 172 books and articles. Appendix B provides a complete list of maps. Appendix A, Index and Catalog of Events, is almost a book in itself. Items are arranged alphabetically, but under them the lists are chronological. Thus more than three millenniums of surprising, inspiring history are included.
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