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Title: Canadian Emigration to the U.S., 1900-1930. Characterizing Movers and Stayers, and the Differential Impact of Immigration Policy on the Mobility of French and English Canadians

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: Canadians moved to the U.S. in large numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Canadians also moved to settle the Prairies. We merge Canadian and U.S. Census microdata files from 1900 through 1931 to generate a sample of the population of the Canadian-born living in both Canada and the U.S. We quantify the relative odds of Anglo- and Franco-Canadians moving interprovincially and to the U.S., and do this for each Census year. This allows us to directly compare the relative mobility of each group, and to track changes in mobility over time. We note a shift in the characteristics of French Canadians moving to the U.S. during the 1920s and explore whether this is due to changes in labour demand or the effect of the literacy requirement introduced by Congress in 1917.

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Authors: Cater, Bruce; Lew, Byron

Conference Name: Canadian Network for Economic History

Publisher Location: Banff, Alberta, Canada

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Topics: Migration and Immigration

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