Crossing the 49th parallel
Subtitle: migration from Canada to the United States, 1900-1930
By: Bruno Ramirez with the assistance of Yves Otis.
Contributors: Otis, Yves.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Canadian Americans -- History -- 20th century; Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Relations -- Canada; Canada -- Relations -- United States; Northern boundary of the United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: "In the hundred years ending in 1930, an estimated 2.8 million Canadians moved south of the 49th Parallel and settled in the United States. The human and technical resources they brought made Canadian immigrants integral to the growth of New England, the Great Lakes region, and the west coast. Crossing the 49th Parallel is the first book to encompass that entire, continent-wide population shirt, bringing Canadian migration to the center of both Canadian and U.S. history.".

"Bruno Ramirez researches the contents of previously unused border records to bring to light the wide variety of local contexts and historical circumstances that led Canadian men, women, and children to cross the border and become key actors in the U.S. economy and society."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Societies in motion in nineteenth-century North America; title: The rise of the border; title: Emigration from French Canada to the United States; title: Emigration from English Canada, 1900-1930; title: The remigration movement from Canada.