Arthur Kroeger may have become one of the most renowned federal civil servants of his generation—the “dean of deputy ministers” is a name that has stuck—but when his Russian Mennonite parents came to Canada from Ukraine as refugees in 1926, the most precious things they brought with them were a set of carpentry tools, a polished wooden box full of family papers and the family’s Kroeger…
Christopher Wiebe
Christopher Wiebe has written for magazines such as Canadian Forum and AlbertaViews and for many years wrote a book column for VUE Weekly in Edmonton. He now works at the Heritage Canada Foundation in Ottawa.