Crossing The 49th

Author : Bruno Ramirez
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501729584

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Crossing the 49th Parallel by Bruno Ramirez Pdf

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 shift. It brings 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. Ramirez goes beyond these statistical data, consulting qualitative sources and case studies to reveal the motives and aspirations of individuals and family groups. The comparative perspective of Crossing the 49th Parallel allows Ramirez to explain the distinctive roles of French- and Anglo-Canadians in the immigrant movement. By shifting the viewpoint from a continental to a transatlantic one, Ramirez also unveils Canada's important role in international migration; it served as a temporary destination for many Europeans who subsequently remigrated to the United States.

Author : Canada. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Admission of nonimmigrants
ISBN : 0662277694

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Crossing the 49th by Canada. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Canadians
ISBN : OCLC:1016858402

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Crossing the 49th by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gillian Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773555136

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Reading Between the Borderlines by Gillian Roberts Pdf

An investigation into how culture is made, moved, and used across the Canada-US border.

Author : James Laxer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118012413

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The Border by James Laxer Pdf

Insightful, prescient and often funny, The Border explores what it means to be Canadian and what Canada means to the giant to our south. If good fences make good neighbours, do we have the sort of fence that will allow us to maintain neighbourly relations with the world's only superpower? In The Border, well-known political scientist and journalist James Laxer explores this question by taking the reader on a compelling 5000-mile journey into culture, politics, history, and the future of Canadian sovereignty. Long ignored (or celebrated) as "the world's longest undefended border," the line between us and the US is now a stress point. The attacks on the World Trade Center announced to the world that North America is no longer a quiet neighbourhood and made our relationship with the US one of the most pressing questions facing Canadians. The porousness of the border is sure to be more problematic as the world becomes more troubled. Canadian officials complain of American pornography, drugs, untaxed cigarettes and, especially, guns moving northwards. For their part, the FBI and US Customs Service blame Canada for the infiltration of Chinese gangs smuggling immigrants and, more urgently, third-world terrorist cells based north of the border. Drawing deeply from history and anecdote, Laxer shows that for all our neighbourly good will, the Canada-US border has been contentious since the American War of Independence. In the mid-1800s the Americans tried to seize the west coast up to the 54th parallel. On the other hand, until 1931 the Canadian Army's "Defence Scheme Number One" was to launch a surprise attack on the US with Mexico and Japan as allies. But beyond thefraught politics of the border, Laxer discovers another legacy as well. Travelling the country from Campobello island in the east to Richmond BC in the west all the way up to the Alaska panhandle in the north, Laxer meets people who live within a stone's throw of the foreigners on the other side, and who share with him tales of friendship and rivalry, smuggling and trade that have shaped the character of their communities.

Author : Genevieve Graham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982156640

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Letters Across the Sea by Genevieve Graham Pdf

Inspired by a little-known chapter of World War II history, a young Protestant girl and her Jewish neighbour are caught up in the terrible wave of hate sweeping the globe on the eve of war in this powerful love story that’s perfect for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. If you’re reading this letter, that means I’m dead. I had obviously hoped to see you again, to explain in person, but fate had other plans. 1933 At eighteen years old, Molly Ryan dreams of becoming a journalist, but instead she spends her days working any job she can to help her family through the Depression crippling her city. The one bright spot in her life is watching baseball with her best friend, Hannah Dreyfus, and sneaking glances at Hannah’s handsome older brother, Max. But as the summer unfolds, more and more of Hitler’s hateful ideas cross the sea and “Swastika Clubs” and “No Jews Allowed” signs spring up around Toronto, a city already simmering with mass unemployment, protests, and unrest. When tensions between the Irish and Jewish communities erupt in a riot one smouldering day in August, Molly and Max are caught in the middle, with devastating consequences for both their families. 1939 Six years later, the Depression has eased and Molly is a reporter at her local paper. But a new war is on the horizon, putting everyone she cares about most in peril. As letters trickle in from overseas, Molly is forced to confront what happened all those years ago, but is it too late to make things right? From the desperate streets of Toronto to the embattled shores of Hong Kong, Letters Across the Sea is a poignant novel about the enduring power of love to cross dangerous divides even in the darkest of times—from the #1 bestselling author of The Forgotten Home Child.

Author : Gillian Roberts
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773556096

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Reading between the Borderlines by Gillian Roberts Pdf

Is Superman Canadian? Who decides, and what is at stake in such a question? How is the Underground Railroad commemorated differently in Canada and the United States, and can those differences be bridged? How can we acknowledge properly the Canadian labour behind Hollywood filmmaking, and what would that do to our sense of national cinema? Reading between the Borderlines grapples with these questions and others surrounding the production and consumption of literary, cinematic, musical, visual, and print culture across the Canada-US border. Discussing a range of popular as well as highbrow cultural forms, this collection investigates patterns of cross-border cultural exchange that become visible within a variety of genres, regardless of their place in any arbitrarily devised cultural hierarchy. The essays also consider the many interests served, compromised, or negated by the operations of the transnational economy, the movement of culture's "raw material" across nation-state borders in literal and conceptual terms, and the configuration of a material citizenship attributed to or negotiated around border-crossing cultural objects. Challenging the oversimplification of cultural products labelled either "Canadian" or "American," Reading between the Borderlines contends with the particularities and complications of North American cultural exchange, both historically and in the present.

Author : Benjamin Hoy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197528716

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A Line of Blood and Dirt by Benjamin Hoy Pdf

The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-US border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a future for each of their nations that stretched across a continent. They signed treaties with one another dividing lands neither country could map, much less control. A century and a half later, Canada and the United States had largely fulfilled those earlier ambitions. Both countries had built nations that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific and had made an expansive international border that restricted movement. The vision that seemed so clear in the minds of diplomats and politicians never behaved as such on the ground. Both countries built their border across Indigenous lands using hunger, violence, and coercion to displace existing communities and to disrupt their ideas of territory and belonging. The border's length undermined each nation's attempts at control. Unable to prevent movement at the border's physical location for over a century, Canada and the United States instead found ways to project fear across international lines They aimed to stop journeys before they even began.

Author : S. M. Evans,Sarah Carter,Bill Yeo,Glenbow Museum
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Canada, Western
ISBN : 9781552380192

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Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business by S. M. Evans,Sarah Carter,Bill Yeo,Glenbow Museum Pdf

Papers from a conference held at the Glenbow Museum in Sept. 1997.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Canadians
ISBN : 0662310012

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Crossing the 49th by Anonim Pdf

Author : Brandon R. Dimmel
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774832779

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Engaging the Line by Brandon R. Dimmel Pdf

For decades, people living in communities along the Canada–US border enjoyed close social and economic relationships with their neighbours across the line. The introduction of new security measures during the First World War threatened this way of life by restricting the movement of people and goods across the border. Many Canadians resented the new regulations introduced by their provincial and federal governments, deriding them as “outside influences” that created friction where none had existed before. Engaging the Line examines responses to wartime regulations in six communities and offers a glimpse at the origins of our modern, highly secured border.

Author : Robert Hough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Brothers
ISBN : 1554517567

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Diego's Crossing by Robert Hough Pdf

"Seventeen-year-old Diego wants nothing to do with his drug-dealing brother Ernesto. Their small Mexican town of Corazâon de la Fuente has been devastated by the drug trade. When Ernesto cannot make a drug run for a brutal gang, Diego must make the most difficult decision of his life. He soon finds himself caught in a web from which it is impossible to escape without endangering his life and that of his entire family"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Robert Keats
Publisher : Self-Counsel Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781770407640

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The Border Guide by Robert Keats Pdf

Cross the Border with Confidence! Now in its twelfth edition, this book is the definitive guide to everything financial for those living a cross-border lifestyle in Canada and the US. If you are a Canadian living seasonally or year-round in the US, a US citizen living in Canada, or if you have financial assets in both countries, this book can save you time, money, and headaches. Updated for recent changes to cannabis laws and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the strategies outlined here will help you adopt the most amazing, ideal crossborder lifestyle. Imagine your own virtual private swinging door on the Canada/US border that allows you to go through in either direction whenever you want, for whatever time period you want, free from worry and funded by substantial tax reductions. Plus it will give you access to both US and Canadian medical coverage for the rest of your life! Learn how to: • Legally reduce both Canadian and US taxes • Protect your assets from fluctuating exchange rates • Eliminate stress during border crossings • Operate your business from either side of the border to your best advantage • Make investments that are free from both income and estate taxes • Use proven tools to eliminate both the Canadian "death tax" and US estate taxes • Remove your RRSP and other registered plans from Canada at very low or no net income taxes using proven cross-border tools • Use the Canada/US Tax Treaty to greatly save money and reduce taxes on the sale of your business The included, exclusive kit of downloadable materials includes: • Choosing a cross-border financial planner • Lists of free, useful publications • Lists of embassies and consulates • — And much more!

Author : Gillian Roberts,David Stirrup
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554589999

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Parallel Encounters by Gillian Roberts,David Stirrup Pdf

The essays collected in offer close analysis of an array of cultural representations of the Canada–US border, in both site-specificity and in the ways in which they reveal and conceal cultural similarities and differences. Contributors focus on a range of regional sites along the border and examine a rich variety of expressive forms, including poetry, fiction, drama, visual art, television, and cinema produced on both sides of the 49th parallel. The field of border studies has hitherto neglected the Canada–US border as a site of cultural interest, tending to examine only its role in transnational policy, economic cycles, and legal and political frameworks. Border studies has long been rooted in the US–Mexico divide; shifting the locus of that discussion north to the 49th parallel, the contributors ask what added complications a site-specific analysis of culture at the Canada–US border can bring to the conversation. In so doing, this collection responds to the demands of Hemispheric American Studies to broaden considerations of the significance of American culture to the Americas as a whole—bringing Canadian Studies into dialogue with the dominantly US-centric critical theory in questions of citizenship, globalization, Indigenous mobilization, hemispheric exchange, and transnationalism.

Author : Sean Rodman
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781459822030

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The Bodyguard by Sean Rodman Pdf

Key Selling Points New, enhanced features (dyslexia-friendly font, cream paper, larger trim size) to increase reading accessibility for dyslexic and other striving readers.