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...
Bruno Ramirez is Professor of History at the University of Montreal. He is also a screenplay writer and author of several books, including On the Move: French-Canadian and Italian Migrants in the North Atlantic Economy, 1860-1914.
"One of the truth strengths of Ramirez's book... is his repeated use of individual accounts to illustrate larger trends n migration patterns.... Part of the story of Canadian immigration to the United States is already known. Cross-border movement in the nineteenth century, particularly in the post-1867 period and specifically by French Canadians, is well known, especially since, in the case of the latter, the new arrivals in the United...
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