Introduction / Norman Hillmer, J.L. Granatstein
Quebec : Canada's main path / Samuel de Champlain
Trying Newfoundland, 1622 / Edward Wynne
Old France into new, 1635-36 / Paul Le Jeune
"La fécondité de ce pays" / Jean Talon
Counting heads, 1671 / Acadia's census
Halifax's "poor idle worthless," 1749 / Governor Edward Cornwallis
Displacing the Acadians to admit the English, 1755 / Governor Charles Lawrence
Fractious loyalist tendencies, 1784 / Governer John Parr
Rich loyalist in Quebec / William Smith
The implements of settlement / William Bell
Island evils, 1820 / William Johnstone
"Dirty, gross, and indolent" / John Howison
The perils of the voyage, 1821 / John M'Donald
Getting married / Abraham Gill
Setting up in the woods, 1823 / Frances Stewart
New Brunswick politics, 1829 / J. Mulligan
"This ultra-republican spirit" / Susanna Moodie
Grosse Île, 1831 / Henry Deaves
The cholera came / John and Esther Chantler
Travel advisory, 1832 / His Majesty's Chief Immigration Agent
"My own wish to go," 1833 / Elizabeth Wainwright
American money, Canadian distances / Scottish settlers
Highland Scots in Inverness Township, 1834 / William Hendry
Virtues of Upper Canada / George Menzies
Duty and faith, 1837 / Ellen Osler
Women's work, 1841 / Robert McDougall
Much better off / James Thomson
"So many joyous beings" / an Irish observer
The maritimes labour market, 1849 / Reverend John Mulholland
A plea for Black emigration to Canada, 1852 / Mary Shadd
Trapped in Quebec / Johan Schrøder
The settler's life, 1881 / Edward Ffolkes
Please decide / William Wallace
"Don't send any more" / Manitoba Free Press
Quarantine Island / Vera Velichkina
The battle of the pioneer / Sir Clifford Sifton
Recruiting Americans, 1901 / J.E. Blum and J. Grumpper
The Dojack family / Thomas S. Axworthy
"Blue sky ahead," 1903 / John Qutle
Providence's choice / Henri Bourassa
A harsh initiation / Leslie H. Neatby
The 1907 anti-Asian riot / Vancouver Daily News Advertiser
En partant de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon / Soeur Yvonne Landry
"How wisely should we care for the immigrant!" / J.S. Woodsworth
"The case of the Negro," 1909 / William J. White
Macedonian self help / Lillian Petroff
"Life was different here" / Andrej Potocký
In steerage, 1910 / an English traveller
"I thought only of the music" / Antonio Funicelli
Writing back to Newfoundland, 1912 / John Sparks
Rugged British Columbia / Daisy Phillips
The CPR's rough treatment / Ivan Humenyuk
Labouring in British Columbia / Zinovy Peshkov
Toronto's Jewish community / Joseph B. Salsberg
Three hundred Barbadians / Dudley Marshall
The Komagata Maru, 1914 / Vancouver Sun
Wives left behind / Agafia Koval
Picture bride / Tami Nakamura
An East Indian's loneliness / A.P. Ledingham
Life in an internment camp / Phillip Yasnowskyi
Unworthy persecution, 1918 / Phillips Thompson
"They hated the Germans" / Bertha Knull
Three Hungarians on the prairies / Sámuel Zágonyi
A home boy's shame / Albert O. Lee
"Why Orientals should be excluded," 1922 / W.G. McQuarrie
An immigrant pastor / Eduard Duesterhoeft
Jobs Canadians didn't want / Nellie O'Donnell
"There weren't many Blacks" / Harry Gairey
The brain drain, 1927 / W.A. Irwin
Assimilation : a dissent / Frederick Philip Grove
Ralph Connor's injustice / John Murray Gibbon
A word of warning, 1928 / H. Denkers et al.
Colonial Canada / Phyllis Knight
A Mennonite family in the Depression / Arthur Kroeger
Deporting the Bolsheviks, 1932 / The Globe
While the natives starve / Robert Jackson
Sadness / Anthony (Tonek) Slezina
Concerning Mr. Cohen, 1937 / W.L.M. King
Am I less Canadian? / Esther Thompson
Joining up, 1938 / Gus Garber
"Fellow subjects of a beloved ruler" / Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire
The St. Louis, 1939 / George M. Wrong et al.
War and the enemy within / Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Things turn nasty / Karl Butzer
Unionizing Galt Malleable, 1943 / Garabed Palvetzian
A Dutch war bride / Olga Rains
Democratic living / Igor Gouzenko
Nobody we knew : Sachiko's story / R.L. Gabrielle Nishiguchi
Travelling West, 1947 / Robina Evelyn Lee
Refugee doctors need not apply / A.D. Kelly
Our remnant of a family / Moses Znaimer
"White man's thinking," 1949 / A.L. Jolliffe
The German parish / Lucy Amberg
Dearest Nia, 1950 / William Azzi
A migrant chain / Fortunato Rao
Time to adjust / Lillian Sulteanu
"Keeping my faith" / Tara Singh Bains
The shadow of leaving / Helmut Walter Ott
Sense of continuity / Hartley Janssen
A Rhodesian in the army / Michael Pillar
Civil defence, 1955 / Tass Grundel
"You chose Canada" / Irene Brown
From the Kremlin to cornflakes / János Máté
Beyond civilization / Steve Zaban
Such hardworking people / Franca Iacovetta
L'ancrer fermement au Québec / Yohanna Loucheur
Aussie youth / Valerie Jacobs
"A racist country" / Reverend Harold Jackman
After the Prague Spring / Ivan and Marta Straznicky
Going north / Stephen Eaton Hume
From the old to the new Canada / Andrew Faiz
"I was quite afraid," 1970 / Godwin Eni
"Frightened faces" / Milly Charon
Through the wire fence / Lori Weber
"Alone in a new land" / Neil Bissoondath
The junta's victims, 1973 / Farley Mowat
Escaping Chile / Gabriela Enriquez
Always with you, 1978 / Ramesh Mehta
The Vietnamese boat people / Pham Thê Trung
We Portuguese came to Canada / Domingos Marques and João Medeiros
"More Sri Lankan" / Siva Segaran
"Send them back!" 1987 / Maclean's
Safety and survival, 1990 / Enrique Robert
My beliefs and the RCMP / Baltej Singh Dhillon
A cold paradise / A Somalian
The best multiethnic state / A Sarajevan
An encounter with ESL
Karishma Kapil
An inventory of belonging / Ken Wiwa
Two sides of the globe, 1995 / Denise Chong
Lessons in patience / Layla Sharif
Smugglers' slaves, 2001 / Tom Fennell, Sheng Xue
A Muslim after September 11, 2001 / Suhail Abualsameed
All mixed up / Andrew Chung
We children of immigrants, 2003 / Madeleine Thien
Giving up on Canada / Marina Jimenez
My two countries / Margaret Wente
Brazilian and Canadian / Adriana Rio Branco Nabuco de Gouvêa
My disjointed life / Tou Chu Dou Lynhiavu
Celebrity Inn / Anna Pratt
Intelligent waiting / Pia and Andy Diaconescu
Hold the complacency, 2005 / Michael Valpy
The real immigrant experience / Andrew Coyne
Pioneering / Sheema Khan
Sophie's new world / Michael Dufresne, Katherine Lagrandeur