Lederman: How attitudes to immigration have evolved in The Globe through the generations
2024/07/03 Leave a comment
Good historical overview, highlighting how the Globe overall reflected public attitudes of the time:
….As The Globe marks its 180th anniversary, questions around immigration continue to populate its pages. Who gets in, who doesn’t. On what criteria. Deafening in its absence for many years: discussion of who was displaced by settlers as Canada formed and evolved. From the Chinese head tax to Roxham Road, a trip through the pages of The Globe offers the real story in black and white. Canada – if it opened its gates at all – has often been inhospitable, even hostile, to newcomers….
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