Cultural Mosaic (History of Immigration in Canada)

Author: Wang Bing
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: This book discusses the immigration history of Canada's 12 major ethnic groups from the perspective of multiculturalism. Previous Canadian immigration histories often addressed the issue from the traditional European viewpoint, referring to immigrants from colonial countries as settlers and other later-arriving ethnic members as immigrants, which is clearly incorrect. In fact, apart from the indigenous peoples, everyone in Canada should be called an immigrant. Additionally, the focus of this book is not on the so-called two founding nations—Britons and French—but rather on the process of multicultural formation. Ethnic minority immigrants are naturally the central theme of this book. The book provides only a brief account of the immigration histories of the French and British, concentrating instead on the immigration histories of the Scots, the Irish, and the distinctive small group—the Anglo-Normans.