Swedes in Canada : : Invisible Immigrants /

Swedes in Canada : : Invisible Immigrants / / Elinor Barr.

Since 1776, more than 100,000 Swedish-speaking immigrants have arrived in Canada from Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Ukraine, and the United States. Elinor Barr’s Swedes in Canada is the definitive history of that immigrant experience. Active in almost every aspect of Canadian life, Swedish individuals a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Barr, Elinor ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2015
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (576 p.) :; 4 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps and Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • SWEDES IN CANADA. Invisible Immigrants
  • 1. Under an Invisibility Cloak
  • 2. Emigration from Sweden, Immigration to Canada
  • 3. Immigrants
  • 4. Settlement Patterns
  • 5. Religion
  • 6. World Wars
  • 7. The Swedish Press
  • 8. The Depression, Strikes, and Unions
  • 9. Earning a Living
  • 10. A Woman’s Place
  • 11. Swedishness in Canada
  • 12. Links with Sweden
  • 13. Language, Discrimination, and Assimilation
  • 14. Literature
  • 15. Emerging Visibility
  • Appendices
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Personal Names Index
  • General Index

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