Migrants and Urban Centers in Canada
Despite government action , not all immigrants work in agriculture or resource development. As the Irish did before them, many "foreign" immigrants, who do not speak English and are not, for the most part, Protestant, choose to work in the cities rather than live in isolated rural areas. In addition, many of them intend to stay in Canada or North America only temporarily, until they have earned enough money to buy land in their home country, put together a dowry for a sister or repay a family debt. However, those who adopt the North American definition of success or who can not return to their country because of the political climate, settle in Canada and persuade women and children to join them. If these immigrants (Jews, Italians, Macedonians , Russians, Finns, Chinese , etc.) were satisfied with the role they had been left with regret, if they had accepted the isolation of a life in the countryside as the price of their entry into Canada, hostility to them would proba...