Ignored but Not Forgotten: Canada’s English Immigrants

In her third and final book in the English in Canada series, Lucille Campey provides an overview of the great exodus from England to Canada that peaked in the early twentieth century. Drawing on wide-ranging documentary and statistical sources, Campey traces this major population movement on a region-by-region basis. Widely ignored in the past as an immigrant group, the English are now being given the attention they deserve. Campey reveals their outstanding contribution to Canada’s settlement and subsequent development and challenges the assumption that English Canadians were a privileged elite. In fact, most came from humble backgrounds. The book is essential reading for genealogists and general readers wishing to appreciate why the English immigrated to Canada and the enormity of their achievements.