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The Boundaries of Ethnicity - German Immigration and the Language of Belonging in Ontario (Paperback)
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The Boundaries of Ethnicity - German Immigration and the Language of Belonging in Ontario (Paperback)
Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European
settlers from diverse backgrounds transformed Ontario. By 1881,
German speakers made up almost ten per cent of the province's
population and the German language was spoken in businesses, public
schools, churches, and homes. German speakers in Ontario -
children, parents, teachers, and religious groups - used their
everyday practices and community institutions to claim a space for
bilingualism and religious diversity within Canadian society. In
The Boundaries of Ethnicity Benjamin Bryce considers what it meant
to be German in Ontario between 1880 and 1930. He explores how the
children of immigrants acquired and negotiated the German language
and how religious communities relied on language to reinforce
social networks. For the Germans who make up the core of this
study, the distinction between insiders and outsiders was often
unclear. Boundaries were crossed as often as they were respected.
German ethnicity in this period was fluid, and increasingly
interventionist government policies and the dynamics of
generational change also shaped the boundaries of ethnicity. German
speakers, together with immigrants from other countries and
Canadians of different ethnic backgrounds, created a framework that
defined relationships between the state, the public sphere, ethnic
spaces, family, and religion in Canada that would persist through
the twentieth century. The Boundaries of Ethnicity uncovers some of
the origins of Canadian multiculturalism and government attempts to
manage this diversity.
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