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This book should be in every legislature, university, high-school, and public library, as well as in every office and home where people are trying to understand Canada's immigration legacy.
- Joseph Garcea, Canadian Book Review Annual, 1993
Strangers At Our Gates
Strangers At Our Gates:
Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540-2006
As the author has intended, Strangers at Our Gates is a useful single volume introduction for general readers interested in the broad sweep of Canadian immigration history. It is concise, clearly-written, and mercifully jargon-free.
- John R. Graham, Canadian Review of Social Policy/ Revue canadienne de politique sociale, No. 31, 1993
This work by Valerie Knowles, an Ottawa scholar who wrote a useful biography of Senator Cairine Wilson, examines the evolution of immigration policies from the days of New France until very recent times. It is a sound and clear overview and the best general work available on this interesting subject.
- Gerald Tulchinsky, Labour/ Le Travail, Spring, 1995
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