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‘All Canadians, unless they belong to the tiny minority descended from the country’s original inhabitants, are immigrants or descendants of immigrants’ states the Canadian Government’s Green Paper on Immigration of 1974. The descendants of the original inhabitants-Indians and Eskimos — number about 1 per cent of the population today. As the history of the country is clearly linked to the story of immigration, a few salient points in Canadian history will help to suggest some earlier trends in immigration.
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G. D. McQuade, ‘Trends in Canadian Immigration’, International Migration, vol. II, no. 3 (1964).
J. Henripin, Immigration and Language Imbalance (Ottawa: 1974) p. 37.
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St John-Jones, L.W. (1981). Canadian Immigration. In: Commonwealth Migration. Cambridge Commonwealth Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05144-1_3
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