Becoming Canadian : : Memoirs of an Invisible Immigrant / / Michiel Horn.
Thousands of Western European immigrants streamed into Canada after the Second World War, seeking refuge from the economic devastation of their homelands. Many sought to assimilate as quickly as possible into the Canadian mainstream. Michiel Horn, in Becoming Canadian: Memoirs of an Invisible Immigr...
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Horn, Michiel, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Becoming Canadian : Memoirs of an Invisible Immigrant / Michiel Horn. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©1997 1 online resource (288 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Prologue -- 1. War and Peace -- 2. The Great Migration -- 3. Chartered Banking in Canada -- 4. College Days -- 5. Canada and the United States -- 6. A Place of Liberty -- 7. What's Past Is Prologue -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Thousands of Western European immigrants streamed into Canada after the Second World War, seeking refuge from the economic devastation of their homelands. Many sought to assimilate as quickly as possible into the Canadian mainstream. Michiel Horn, in Becoming Canadian: Memoirs of an Invisible Immigrant, shares his reflections on the process of social integration. As a Dutch immigrant to British Columbia in 1952, Horn had to make sense of the cultural demands of two worlds. Over forty years later, a professor of Canadian history, he recounts his own personal history, relating it to broader issues. 'I have tried.' he writes, 'to describe the process of assimilation as I experienced it, and to make sense of the ambivalence immigrants feel towards their adopted country and their country of origin, the sense that they belong to both yet fully to neither.'Horn's autobiography explores the story of his Dutch middle-class family and seeks to answer what it means to replace one nationality with another. He begins with his years in Holland during the Second World War, discusses his family's immigration to Canada, and explains how the family built a life for itself in Victoria. Several of the themes that run throughout the narrative relate to the often uneasy transfer of Dutch values to a Canadian context, the influence that Holland still has on Horn's life, and his own thoughts on multiculturalism as public policy in Canada. Becoming Canadian is a timely memoir, and Horn's consideration of the process of assimilation, and of his own position as an 'invisible immigrant,' is topical and revealing. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Dutch Canada Biography. Immigrants Canada Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442671201 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442671201 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442671201.jpg |
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