Canadian immigration: an earlier perspective.

Abstract

Some aspects of past immigration to Canada are examined. The author notes that "many young Canadians today believe that Canada has always been a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic country. This is true only in so far as it was formerly divided on fairly tight geographical lines between French and British-derived populations, with a small minority of American Indians and Inuit eskimoes. However, during the nineteenth century and first decades of this century it was regarded as comprising a nation of Caucasoids, or more precisely a nation of French and of British settlers, willingly accepting only immigrants from Northwestern Europe ethnically affiliated with those two main groups."