Despite being one of the largest immigrant groups contributing to the development of modern Canada, the story of the English has been all but untold. In Invisible Immigrants, Barber and Watson document the experiences of English-born immigrants who chose to come to Canada during England's last major wave of emigration between the 1940s and the 1970s. Engaging life story oral histories reveal the aspirations, adventures, occasional na?vet?, and challenges of these hidden immigrants. Postwar English immigrants believed they were moving to a familiar British country. Instead, like other...
Despite being one of the largest immigrant groups contributing to the development of modern Canada, the story of the English has been all but untold. ...