SOON TO BE PUBLISHED BY FRIESENPRESS​

A Canadian Story!

THE MAKING OF A RADICAL IMMIGRANT​​​

The radical immigrant implied in the title of this book, is Edo Jardas, a young Croatian who arrived in Canada in May 1926 and worked for several years as a lumberjack in the hinterland of British Columbia.  He was a steadfast member of the Communist Party of Canada and a militant trade union activist in the Canadian Croatian community. He fought in the Spanish Civil War in 1937 and returned to Canada as a war veteran. Jardas left Canada for Yugoslavia in 1948.
​The book is an account of an immigrant community’s collective sense of national identity and belonging. It is also an account of the political radicalization of the Canadian working class inspired by the international communist movement at the time of major economic and political upheavals in post-WWI decades.

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