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Volume 20 • Number 3

Spring 2001


 


Canada in the United States: Perspectives on Migration and Continental History

BRUNO RAMIREZ

IN 1883 A FIERCE dispute opposed United States and Canadian authorities. It all started when the Honorable John Lowe, the Canadian Secretary of Agriculture, contested the figures published by the United States Treasury Department that placed at 70,241 the number of Canadians having migrated to the United States during the past fiscal year. To Lowe those figures were misleading, and could not but cast a negative shadow on his newly confederated Canadian nation for being unable to keep so many of its children within its borders.
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