LEADER 03713nam 2200649 450 001 9910456437903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-99742-0 010 $a9786611997427 010 $a1-4426-7120-3 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442671201 035 $a(CKB)2420000000003841 035 $a(EBL)3251335 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000289741 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11258667 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289741 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10401443 035 $a(PQKB)11115089 035 $a(CaPaEBR)417683 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600871 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3251335 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671217 035 $a(DE-B1597)464205 035 $a(OCoLC)946712396 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442671201 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671217 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256935 035 $a(OCoLC)958565217 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000003841 100 $a20160922h19971997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBecoming Canadian $ememoirs of an invisible immigrant /$fMichiel Horn 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1997. 210 4$dİ1997 215 $a1 online resource (365 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8020-7840-0 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tPrologue -- $t1. War and Peace -- $t2. The Great Migration -- $t3. Chartered Banking in Canada -- $t4. College Days -- $t5. Canada and the United States -- $t6. A Place of Liberty -- $t7. What's Past Is Prologue -- $tIndex 330 $aThousands of Western European immigrants streamed into Canada after the Second World War, seeking refuge from the economic devastation of their homelands. Many sought to assimilate as quickly as possible into the Canadian mainstream. Michiel Horn, in Becoming Canadian: Memoirs of an Invisible Immigrant, shares his reflections on the process of social integration. As a Dutch immigrant to British Columbia in 1952, Horn had to make sense of the cultural demands of two worlds. Over forty years later, a professor of Canadian history, he recounts his own personal history, relating it to broader issues. 'I have tried.' he writes, 'to describe the process of assimilation as I experienced it, and to make sense of the ambivalence immigrants feel towards their adopted country and their country of origin, the sense that they belong to both yet fully to neither.'Horn's autobiography explores the story of his Dutch middle-class family and seeks to answer what it means to replace one nationality with another. He begins with his years in Holland during the Second World War, discusses his family's immigration to Canada, and explains how the family built a life for itself in Victoria. Several of the themes that run throughout the narrative relate to the often uneasy transfer of Dutch values to a Canadian context, the influence that Holland still has on Horn's life, and his own thoughts on multiculturalism as public policy in Canada. Becoming Canadian is a timely memoir, and Horn's consideration of the process of assimilation, and of his own position as an 'invisible immigrant,' is topical and revealing. 606 $aDutch$zCanada$vBiography 606 $aImmigrants$zCanada$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDutch 615 0$aImmigrants 676 $a971.0043931/0092 700 $aHorn$b Michiel$f1939-$0970019 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456437903321 996 $aBecoming Canadian$92457237 997 $aUNINA