Mammoth

Montreal in the mid-1930s. Crisis. High unemployment, especially among immigrants. People are being evicted from their apartments for non-payment of rent. Mammoth resists this eviction and dies from a police bullet next to his belongings, which have already been taken out into the street. The sad fate of Mammoth — Mykyta Zinchuk, an unemployed Ukrainian who came to a foreign land to seek a better life — became the subject of an important socio-historical novel by Pierre Samson.

“Mammoth” is a journey through time, a perfect combination of fiction and real facts, a story about real people endowed with passionate feelings, ready to fight the challenges of their time. This is a story that immerses us in the then cosmopolitan Montreal, with its depression, poverty, tensions between religions and cultures, and active communist movements.

Pierre Samson dedicated his story to “the people who resist.” This is a story about us. Ukrainians.