EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Clifford Sifton, Internalized Racism
11 Apr 2016
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Clifford sifton on the ideal immigrant to the prairies: The question of how to populate bc, saskatchewan, and alberta. Minister of the interior (responsible for immigration) sifton advertises land incentives to people in britain, usa to settle (+ 160 acres) Wanted brits, russians, and eastern europeans as well but they received smaller incentives. 1990-2000 there was a big wave of polish, russian, and hungarian people on the prairies: this idea was not popular among everyone. Sifton wanted people familiar with the harsh climate: eastern european image, occupation over ethnicity, genuine fear of trade unionists and factory men who can"t handle the work load, genuine perception that they were too different . Sifton was replaced by oliver: about ethnicity over occupation. Solidified favourable over non immigrants: responsible for japanese ship sent back, black migrants from oklahoma would come in communities; oliver didn"t anticipate this. Critics suggested the first novel was published to show non-mainstream perspective (not british or germanic)
