title: 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."
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Greer
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D002170:Canada; D003469:Culture; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005006:Ethnicity; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics
keywords: Americas; Canada; Cultural Background; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Ethnic Groups; Historical Survey; International Migration; Migration; North America; Northern America; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics