Canada -- Emigration and immigration

Abstract Professor of history at University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The collection includes a thesis, entitled Dutch Immigration to Canada, 1892-1940, doctoral thesis, University of Toronto, 1975; an article published in Canadian Ethnic Studies, "Canada the Last Illusion," 1979; and twenty microfilm reels called the Ganzevoort Canadian Immigration Project. The microfilm reels detail backup immigrant documents, i.e., Toronto, Ontario; Canadian origins; Hamilton, Ontario; Holland Marsh,...

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Immigrants from Friesland to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The extensive letter collection chronicles post-World War II, Canadian, experiences of Roelof and Geertje Groenink. Their correspondents were as follows: Anna van Ravenschot, St. Johannesga, Friesland; Tet Wiersma Straatsma, Giekerk, Frisland; the Bonnema family, Enschede, Overijssel; and others. Selected letters are summarized in the inventory folder.