"Human migration figures prominently in modern world history, and has played a pivotal role in shaping the Canadian nation state. Yet while much has been written about Canada's multicultural heritage, little attention has been paid to German migrants although they compose Canada's third largest European ethnic minority." "A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939 addresses that gap in the record. Jonathan Wagner considers why Germans left their home country, why they chose to settle in Canada, who assisted their passage, and how they crossed the ocean to their new home, as well as how the Canadian government perceived and solicited them as immigrants. He examines the German context as closely as developments in Canada, offering a new, more complete approach to German-Canadian immigration."--BOOK JACKET.
Record details
ISBN:0774812168 :
ISBN:077481215X
Physical Description:print 284 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher:Vancouver : UBC Press, 2006.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Migration in the 1850s and 1860s -- 2. Migration in the age of Bismarck and Macdonald, 1870-90 -- 3. Migration in the generation before the Great War, 1890-1914 -- 4. Interwar migration, 1919-39.