Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Barr, Elinor (1933-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Swedes in Canada [Texte imprimé] : invisible immigrants / Elinor Barr

Publication : Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, cop. 2015

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-554 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm

Comprend : Under an Invisibility Cloak ; Emigration from Sweden, Immigration to Canada ; Immigrants ; Settlement Patterns ; Religion ; World Wars ; The Swedish Press ; The Depression, Strikes and Unions ; Earning a Living ; A Woman's Place ; Swedishness in Canada ; Links with Sweden ; The Swedes in Canada's national game / Charles Wilkins ; Language, Discrimination and Assimilation ; Literature ; Emerging Visibility.

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-515) and indexes
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 and companies are responsible for the CN Tower, ships on the Great Lakes, and log buildings in Riding Mountain National Park. They have built railways and grain elevators all across the country, as well as churches and old folks' homes in their communities. At the national level, the introduction of cross-country skiing and the success of ParticipACTION can be attributed to Swedes. Despite this long list of accomplishments, Swedish ethnic consciousness in Canada has often been very low. Using extensive archival and demographic research, Barr explores both the impressive Swedish legacy in Canada and the reasons for their invisibility as an immigrant community

Sujet(s) : Suédois -- Conditions sociales -- Canada  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Canadiens d'origine suédoise -- Conditions sociales -- Histoire  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Émigration et immigration -- Canada -- Histoire  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Émigration et immigration -- Suède -- Histoire  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781442644946 (cloth). - ISBN 144264494X (cloth). - ISBN 9781442613744 (paper) (alkaline paper). - ISBN 1442613742 (paper) (alkaline paper)

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