Canada's diverse peoples
Subtitle: a reference sourcebook
By: J.M. Bumsted.
Series: Ethnic diversity within nations
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Ethnology -- Canada -- History; Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- History; Canada -- Ethnic relations -- History; Canada -- Race relations -- History
Description: "This work is the only comprehensive historical study of the development of ethnic communities in Canada from its early history to the present. Accessible and extensively researched, this work gives the general public and students of Canadian history, sociology, and anthropology a unique insight into the tensions, conflicts, and cooperation between Canada's indigenous and immigrant populations."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The first immigrants: the aboriginal people before 1500. Theories of origins -- The Beringia controversy -- Climate, ecology, and aboriginal life -- Cultural variations -- Aboriginals at the Europeans’ arrival -- Timeline -- Significant people, places, and events -- Document :  The implications of the origins of North Americans -- Bibliography -- The "founding peoples".  	The English -- The French -- Early history : New France, 1670-1759. The aboriginals -- Conclusion -- Timeline -- Significant people, places, and events -- Documents: Mother Marie on the strange happenings; Governor Denonville to French minister of marine -- Bibliography -- French Canadians, Acadians, Métis, and First Nations, 1760-1815. The French Canadians under the capitulation -- The Proclamation of 1763 -- Quebec under the proclamation of 1763 -- 	The Quebec Act of 1774 -- The American invasion of Quebec -- The coming of the loyalists and the Constitutional Act of 1791 -- Quebec politics under the Constitutional Act -- 	The return of the Acadians -- The Métis in the west -- First Nations -- Conclusion -- Timeline -- Significant, people, places, and events -- Documents: The religious provisions of the Quebec Act, 1774; An early election in Lower Canada, 1792 -- Bibliography -- Yankees, loyalists, and Highland Scots 1759-1815. Demographic change -- Population movements, 1759-1774. Nova Scotia and the Atlantic region; Quebec -- The coming of the loyalists -- Highland immigration -- Characteristics of the new immigration and settlement -- Timeline -- Significant, people, places, and events -- Documents : Robinson and Rispin on the people of Nova Scotia; Thomas Halliday on his hard life on Prince Edward Island -- Bibliography -- Immigration to British North America, 1815-1867. Patterns and problems -- The Atlantic passage -- Patterns of emigration and immigration -- Assisted passage and resettlement -- 	Unassisted passage and assisted resettlement -- The transatlantic contractors -- The unassisted immigrants -- The rise of new ethnic tensions -- Other European immigrants -- The visible minorities. The Blacks -- The Chinese -- The First Nations -- Conclusion -- Timeline -- Significant people, places, and events -- Documents : John & Magret Evans to Owen Thomas, 1820; Nathaniel Carrothers to his brother -- Bibliography -- Immigration and immigration policy, 1867-1914. Acquiring the west -- Developing the west to 1885. The Mennonites  -- The Icelanders -- The Métis -- The Chinese -- Immigration after 1885 : larger numbers and increasing exclusionism. The Ukrainians -- 	The Americans -- The British "home children" -- Other new arrivals. European contract workers -- The Lebanese -- The Sikhs -- The restrictions -- Conclusion -- Timeline -- Significant people, places, and events -- Bibliography -- Two wars and a depression, 1914-1945. The enemy alien problem, 1914-1920 -- Soldier settlement, 1918-1939 -- Empire settlement -- Exclusionary and nonexclusionary policies of the 1920s -- Canada and the Armenian genocide -- The "red scare" of the early 1930s -- Canadian response to the coming of World War II. Jewish refugees -- The Japanese problem -- Immigration during World War II -- The guest children -- Conclusion -- Timeline -- Significant people, places, and events -- Timeline -- Documents : A letter from the holocaust, 1945; A Japanese woman recalls her evacuation -- Bibliography -- An immigration from Europe, 1946-1962. The war brides -- The refugee crisis of 1945-1947 -- The displaced persons immigration of 1948-1952 -- The Immigration Act of 1952 and its implementation -- The Hungarian refugees of 1956 -- The returning British -- New problems and new solutions, 1957-1962 -- The sponsorship problem -- Conclusion -- Timeline --	Significant people, places, and events -- Documents : Testimony of Mr. Jolliffe, 1946; J. W. Pickersgill on immigration problems in 1955 -- Bibliography -- Redefining immigration and ethnic/cultural policy, 1960-1975. Factors altering Canada’s attitude to immigration and cultural diversity -- A new immigration policy -- Bilingualism and biculturalism -- The major new postwar ethnic groups. The Dutch -- The Portuguese -- The Greeks -- The Ukrainians -- The curious case of the visible Americans -- The recognition of other minorities in the 1960s. The blacks -- The aboriginal peoples -- The introduction of multiculturalism -- Timeline -- Significant people, places, and events -- Documents : Prime Minister Trudeau’s speech on aboriginal and treaty rights, 1969; Tom Kent on the genesis of the points system, 1967 -- Bibliography -- Since 1975. Quebec separatism and the constitution -- The new constitution and the genesis of the charter of rights -- The Charlottetown Accord -- 	Aboriginal rights. Aboriginal title -- Other rights -- Self-government -- Settlement of land claims -- The British Columbia reaction to First Nations negotiations -- Aboriginal justice -- Redressing historical mistreatment. The court route : native residential schools -- The government route : the Japanese Canadians -- Other efforts at redress -- Immigration -- Timeline -- Significant people, places, and events -- Document : The Canadian government acknowledgement to the Japanese-Canadians, 1990 -- Bibliography -- The new ethnic groups in Canada since 1967. Africa. The Egyptians -- The Ethiopians -- The Somalis -- The South Africans -- The Caribbean. The British Caribbeans -- The Guyanese -- The Haitians -- Latin America. The Argentinians -- The Brazilians -- The Chileans -- The Guatemalans -- 	The Mexicans -- The Nicaraguans -- The Peruvians -- The Salvadorans -- The Middle East and the Arabs -- South Asia -- Southeast Asia. The Cambodians -- The Laotians -- The Vietnamese -- Asia. The Chinese -- The Filipinos -- The Koreans -- Conclusion -- Timeline -- Significant people, places, and events -- Documents : Somalis in Canada; Faduma Abdi speaks, Voices of South Asians in Canada -- Bibliography -- The future. Immigration -- Ethnicity -- Quebec -- Aboriginal rights -- Life with Uncle Sam -- Documents : British Columbia referendum on aboriginal land title settlement; Multiculturalists are the real racists.