Harry Leonard Sawatzky (10 February 1931 – 30 April 2008) was a Canadian scholar in the field of
human geography
Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography that studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment. It analyzes spatial interdependencies between social i ...
.
Sawatzky grew up in a traditional Plautdietsch-speaking
Russian Mennonite
The Russian Mennonites (german: Russlandmennoniten it. "Russia Mennonites", i.e., Mennonites of or from the Russian Empire occasionally Ukrainian Mennonites) are a group of Mennonites who are descendants of Dutch Anabaptists who settled for abo ...
community in southern
Manitoba
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. He got his BA from the
University of Manitoba
The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a Canadian public research university in the province of Manitoba.University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
. In 1963 he began his teaching at the
University of Manitoba
The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a Canadian public research university in the province of Manitoba.
Works
* ''They Sought a Country: Mennonite Colonization in Mexico, with an appendix on Mennonite colonization in British Honduras''. Berkeley, University of California, 1971.
* ''Sie suchten eine Heimat : deutsch-mennonitische Kolonisierung in Mexiko, 1922 - 1984'', Marburg 1986. (This book is not just a German translation of ''They Sought a Country'', as the title seems to indicate, but a work of its own.)