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411 Games Top 5 2.09.14: Square-Enix Games
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on 02.09.2014
From Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VII to Tomb Raider (2013) and Kingdom Hearts. Join the 411 staff as they give out their lists for the Top 5 Best Square-Enix Games.
Hello everyone, I hope it has been a good week for all the readers out there. Square-Enix has so much history separate and together that perhaps it is time we did a topic about them.
With Bravely Default having come out on Friday, this week, the 411 staff were asked to give out lists for their Top 5 Square-Enix Games. Anything in Square or Enix's back catalog was allowed. Staffers could also include games from distribution deals in other countries or IP's they have bought but perhaps not made a game with yet on their own.
Stephen Randle (Games Zone Reviewer, Quizmaster of Four Player Co-op, host of "Cooperative Multiplayer" The Official 411 Games Podcast, Writer of Wrestling News Experience)
Kingdom Hearts
- The series has become more Square-Enix than Disney as it went on, but the original featured what I thought was a perfect mix of Disney characters and settings and Final Fantasy-style storytelling and combat (with a few characters thrown in). This was also a perfect game to give an HD remix to, given the usual high level of graphics found in a SE offering.
Sleeping Dogs
- Technically, S-E didn't fully develop the game, they picked up a partially completed True Crime: Hong Kong and finished it off, but it still counts. Sleeping Dogs is one of the rare open-world games that I felt did a lot of things right and really captured my attention. Mostly, I felt like even when I was doing side missions, I was still progressing through the main story, and I was never tempted to just drive aimlessly around the city because there was nothing interesting to do. In addition, something that doesn't get enough credit is the fact that the game literally directed you where to go to get to or complete missions through hovering arrows throughout the city, and that little added help made usually frustrating things like race missions a lot easier to complete.
Tomb Raider
- Well, we did name it Game of 2013, so it has that going for it. For me personally, Tomb Raider created interest in a franchise that I had previously had none, and did so with a fantastic game with a great story, well-written characters, and one of the most refined combat systems I've played since Uncharted. I can't wait for the sequel.
Various Final Fantasy Games
- I'm cheating so I can get more non-FF games on the list. If we want to be specific, I'm mostly talking about FFIV, FFVI, FFVII, FFIX, and FF Tactics, which would be my Top 5 FF games if we ever do that list (or if we already did one and I forgot). Every FF game has something special and unique going for it, whether it be a unique combat system, an incredible story, well-written characters, or an amazing soundtrack. The best of these games combine all those traits.
Chrono Trigger
- I don't think anyone who knows me is surprised by this one, as it's by far the video game I've played the most over my lifetime (okay, WoW, but besides that). I've played it from start to finish at least nine times. My love of this game is so well-known that Robert Cooper tracked down an original Super Famicon version (in Japanese) of the game on eBay and sent it to me for a laugh...and I told him that I had memorized it so well I could probably still play it. It's not the hardest game in the world, but everything about it is so polished that to me, it could very well be the perfect JRPG.
Todd Vote (Games Zone Reviewer, Regular Contributor to Four Player Co-op)
Dead Island
- Who do you voodoo, b*tch? Now I know the game didn't live up to the first trailer, but in all honestly, how could it? It was an amazing trailer. But that isn't to say that Dead Island wasn't fun. It was far from perfect, but it still offered a lot of hours playing in an open world with your friends, infested with the undead. Any game that allows me to kill zombies with friends is doing something right.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- Say what you will about Call of Duty now. How they haven't changed it up at all in what seems like forever. But at the time of release, COD: MW was the top of the heap, bringing first person shooters out of the WWII era, and dropping it firmly in the here and now with a fantastic story.
Batman: Arkham Asylum
- The game that changed the way we look at comic book games. This was Batman done right. From the ability to stalk your prey from the shadows, right down to the free-flow combat, Batman has never been better than he is in this series of games.
Sleeping Dogs
- One of the bigger surprises of 2012 for me was Sleeping Dogs. It was a unique take on the open world crime game. Having the game take place in Hong Kong offered a new setting for fans of the genre. Guns were scarce, forcing you to rely more on your ability as a hand to hand fighter in a matter similar to Batman's Arkham series. If you haven't played this game, you should seek it out. It's definitely worth it.
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
- Tomb Raider is a great reboot for Lara Croft. The Definitive Edition looks even better than the version that released on the PS3, and the Xbox 360 if you can believe that. Tomb Raider is the best Square-Enix game that I have played.
John Cash (Reader Voice, Occasionally Contributes to Four Player Co-op)
Note: My gaming background prior to 2002 is entirely made up of sports games, platformers, puzzle games, and copious amounts of Goldeneye007. I've been doing a lot of catch-up over the last 12 years, and if I had focused on JRPGs like Final Fantasy, I probably would be up to FFVII at this point. Maybe. So my top 5 fav SquareEnix games list will probably read like blasphemy to most.
5. Chrono Cross:
This game is the the ground zero for me when it comes to JRPGs; this is the one I blame for giving a lot of really crazy (and suspiciously cheap) PS2 JRPGs a chance. I'm sure most people would have Trigger on their list over Cross, but I haven't played Trigger, so that's why Cross is on mine. Unlike most other RPGs I had tried before, Chrono Cross just *felt good* to play, it wasn't tiresome running back and forth in the same village, it wasn't frustrating running into the enemies over and over. It just hit that sweet spot for me. That's not to say it wasn't an immense struggle for me to beat the game, but it was a struggle worth pushing forward through.
4. Tomb Raider (2013):
Also known as 411mania's 2013 Game of the Year. I was shocked when I read that it got number one, not as a dig on the game, but because I wasn't sure how many people would give it a chance. I know that if I hadn't found it for $10 at a used game store, I probably wouldn't have played it last year. I'm not a fan of the "realism" trend that is just fluffy speak for throw dirt on everything and make everyone a cynic, and that's pretty much what the trailers for Tomb Raider looked like to me. If I'd known it was basically going to be the female modern equivalent of the Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1985 classic COMMANDO, I probably would have been all over it. Lara's moral center basically shatters in a matter of 10 minutes; she cries over killing a deer with an arrow, then she's killing 30 continuously spawning crazy pirates with an assault rifle like it's her job. That on top of some amazing visuals, a decent score, and more characterization than just "I'm British and I got to tombs because of FATHER", this quickly became one of my favorite action adventure games of the generation.
3. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers:
There had to be one Final Fantasy related game, didn't there? From the bits and pieces I've played of FFIV, FFX, FFXIII, and Dirge of Cerberus, FFCC:TCB has nothing to do with any of them. From start to finish it really felt like a completely different franchise to me, even though there were obviously similar items and character terms. It was a very livable atmosphere. It was linear when it came to completing the story, but it never really felt like I was being funneled down a path like some action-RPGs tend to be. I'm sure it's largely over-looked or forgotten because of it's Wii exclusivity, but if you're of the type to pick up a console at the end of it's cycle at it's cheapest and buy all the good games for it at your leisure, go ahead and pick up FFCC:TCB and see what you think, it's certainly not typical FF gameplay.
2. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars:
The fact that people, to this very day, are clamoring to see more of ANY of the original characters in this game, is a testament to how well loved this SNES game was. It's the one game I always hear people suggest as a 'gateway drug" to RPGs, because it's a great mix of entry level rising up through a difficulty curve to fairly challenging gameplay, an addicting, catchy soundtrack, and of course many of the Mushroom Kingdom cast we all know and love. I am personally in love with this game for eventually inspiring the Paper Mario series, one of the best game series around.
1. Kingdom Hearts:
What can I say that hasn't already been said about this game? Honestly? I could start it off with the "People either really love it or really hate it line", but that's been said a million times before. What I will say is that thankfully the Final Fantasy characters, of which I knew literally nothing about except for Cloud and Sephiroth, weren't plot-essential for the most part, so I was definitely able to enjoy the game and it's voyage through many classic Disney worlds. There were some parts where I absolutely wanted to tear my hair out because of the camera, but the rest of the game was just so special (dare I say MAGICAL) that I couldn't help but fall head over heels for it.
Robert Cooper (Music Zone Reviewer, Writer of the Metal Hammer of Doom News Report, Regular Contributor to "Cooperative Multiplayer" The Official 411 Games Podcast, Regular Contributor to Music Zone Top 5)
Honorable Mentions
Cooking Mama
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
The World Ends With You
Just Cause 2
5. Bushido Blade
- I discovered this game through a cracked article and I must say out of all of the fighting games I've played (which isn't a ton), this one is by far the most unique games I have played, fighting system wise.
4. Batman: Arkham Asylum
-This was the Batman game to end all Batman games when it was released because it took a Batman comic and actually turned it into a game. Batman was as OP in this game as he should be in real life with the gadgets and the free flowing combat.
3. Kingdom Hearts
- I love RPGs, and even more than that, I love Disney, so the combination of the two was a match made in heaven. Granted, there were a few bugs in the game, but the game itself was pretty damn cool, all things considered.
2. Chrono Trigger
- The ONLY reason that this is in second is because I just started the game. I picked it up a few weeks ago for the DS and while I'm barely into the game, I'm really enjoying it, and I can really see why this is regarded as one of the best RPGs and games of all time.
1. Final Fantasy 7
- Out of all of the JRPG games, this one is the one that I have gotten the closest to completing. Though sadly my hard drive got replaced and I have to restart the game, I finally got to playing this game after so many years of wanting to a few years ago. I never owned a Sony System or a Nintendo System before the N64, so I missed out on every single one of the games. But back to this game, it's got an incredibly compelling story and a combat system that is pretty easy to use but complex in nature, or at least as complex as an FF games gets in terms of combat complexity. I hate that I now have to go back and catch up to myself, but I should because this is still a damn good game.
Daniel Anderson (Games Zone Reviewer, Games Fact or Fiction Organizer, Regular Contributor to "Cooperative Multiplayer" The Official 411 Games Podcast)
Front Mission Series
- Ignoring the last one, Front Mission is one of my favorite turn based games. I love mech games (probably why I am looking forward to Titanfall so much) and Front Mission makes you be more strategic when dealing with mechs as opposed to just blowing up anything around you. Great series and one I readily recommend.
Final Fantasy: Tactics
- With the exception of a few games, I was never a huge fan of the Final Fantasy series. Something just never clicked with me. This game though, I could not get enough of. I loved the multiple class possibilities and different abilities and strategies with each class. If you are a fan of turn based games, I feel confident saying you have played at least one of the Tactics games.
Tomb Raider (2013)
- A lot of people will say this is too high, but I really enjoyed this game. I was never a fan of the series, but picked up this game because of the good things I had been hearing. It lived up to all the good press and more. I have said before how hard it must be to relaunch a franchise while dealing with the baggage of the older, less successful games, and Tomb Raider did it perfectly.
Final Fantasy VII
- I have played several of the older Final Fantasy games (pre-PS2 being considered older) and this was my favorite of the group. A great game that everyone seemed to love. The story was great and the graphics were amazing for the time. This and Final Fantasy VI are two of the most loved of the franchise, and I really could have put VI here, but I enjoyed VII a little more.
Chrono Trigger
- If you ask any fans of JRPG's what the best JRPG is, this game will, most likely, be named. I never played it as much as other people, the little (comparatively) I have played was thoroughly enjoyable. I feel confident in saying that we will probably not see another JRPG that will topple Chrono Trigger from the throne of best JRPG.
Francisco Ramirez (411 Contributor)
HM: Dragon Quest VIII
Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen
- An SNES gem, later ported to 32-bit consoles. Ogre Battle was different to say the least. Part RTS, part JRPG. Battles consisted of squads that featured anything from Vampires all the way to Angels. Tarot cards were featured heavily, being a great source for magic and healing. Ambitious is one word that comes to mind when I think of this game, and ambition is one of the reasons Enix stood out back in the day.
Robot Alchemic Drive
- One of my biggest guilty pleasures. R.A.D. is a classic, in my eyes anyway. Think Pacific Rim, but way back in 2002. Earth is invaded by giant alien robots named Volgara, the only way to defeat them is to pilot a giant mechs named Meganite. The fun in this game came by the way you pilot the Meganite. Finding a perfect point of view where you can see both the Volgara and Meganite, once set you pilot the Meganite. Literally, pilot the damn thing, the R and L triggers controlled Left and the Right legs for movement, the left and right Analog sticks controlled the arms for punching. The Meganite could later be upgraded with missiles and other special moves. The fun was definitely in the battles, yet the story portion holds a special place in my heart, with one hell of a cheesy translation with such gems as "A robot killed grandma!". Once again, a game that Enix would take a risk on, yet such a different game, in today's world, I bet Square-Enix wouldn't take a second glance at.
Valkyrie Profile
- More Enix love, and if you've read any of my prior lists, you know the love I have for this game. You control the Valkyrie Lenneth, who must go out and recruit einherjar for Odin.Einherjar are recruited so they can battle the Vanir in the war for Asgard. Recruitment is the main dish in the game, each characters story is unique and very well done. Many of them tragic, but none so much as the "true" ending of the game, finding out the truth about Lenneth and her connection with some of the einherjar. Battles were turn based, yet completely unique, timed correctly unleashed a Purify Wierd Soul special, all of which were pure eye candy. A sequel was released, which amazing enough I own and have never gotten around to.
Final Fantay VI
- Depending who you ask, one and two can be interchangeable. My opinion is set though, as much as I love Final Fantasy VII, I have to give the nod to VI for being the superior game. A deep storyline, class turn based battles, Espers, and a great cast. A classic, with classic moments in gaming, be it the opera scene or the suicide attempt, yes a freaking apparent attempt at suicide! One of the best games ever, not just in Square's roster.
Chrono Trigger
- Surprised? Of course not, Square and Enix put out great games, their bread and butter though has been the JRPG. The cream of the crop to many is easily Chrono Trigger. Great story, great locations, one hell of a soundtrack, Akira Toriyama designed characters, Frog, yes freaking Masamune wielding Frog! What else can be said about this game that hasn't been said multiple times for almost two decades now?
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Games Coming Out the Week of 02/09/14
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Last of Us: Left Behind DLC (PS3 Only)
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Far Cry Compilation (PS3)- Includes Far Cry 2, Far Cry 3, and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition (Xbox 360)
Toukiden: The Age of Demons (PS VITA)
DanganRonpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (PS VITA)
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News events like the death of Osama bin Laden last week overshadowed World Press Freedom Day.
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"World Press Freedom Day also serves as an occasion to alert citizens to violations of press freedom. It provides a reminder that in dozens of countries around the world, publications are being censored, fined, suspended and closed down, while journalists, editors and publishers are being harassed, attacked, detained and even murdered." -- Sierra Leone Association of Journalists
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I've built up a respectible arsenal of gadgets and devices while logging almost 200,000 miles in frequent flier miles this year.
Some are necessities, and some are just for fun. Some are just to keep my sanity on longer trips like the one I'm taking this week to Cologne, Germany.
My geeked out road warrior survival pack includes everything from a lithium-ion battery pack that gives my iphone 2 extra charges, to a sleek pair of noise canceling Bose headphones that block out the majority of jet airplane engine noises.
It also makes a great Christmas shopping list for the business traveler or technology addict in your life ;-)
Here's my Letterman's countdown of top ten must-have gadgets when traveling for business or pleasure:
10. Starbuck's Via 3-pack. Technology aside... Let's face it - hotel room coffee tastes horrible no matter what brand they use.
I really need a good cup of coffee to start the day off right (especially for east coast trips where it feels like I'm getting up at 4 a.m.) and these instant coffee packs from Starbucks are just as good as the real thing. You can get hot water from just about anywhere, including an in-room coffee maker without the coffee grounds.
9. iPod nano with armband. Yes, I have an iPhone too (see #1 below) but a small ipod is more convenient for working out, and also provides more hours of music for helping long flights go by faster.
8. Camera. I bring my Nikon D50 DSLR camera along with a 300mm zoom lens when I want to be sure and capture the city views in high quality (and I usually have some time after business hours for touring the city).
Question: I saw your article on how to copy music to an ipod, but is it possible to point the ipod to an external portable drive, so that it finds music files there instead of from the main hard drive?
Answer: Since iPods get their music by syncing with iTunes, you'll need to either 1) tell iTunes to store music files on your portable external hard drive instead of your regular drive, or 2) import music files from your external drive into iTunes.
Option 1: Tell iTunes where to store music files
Open iTunes and select Edit -- Preferences. Then click the Advanced tab where you'll find the iTunes Music folder location.
Click the Change button and choose a folder on your external hard drive (you might want to create one first if you want files to be stored in a particular folder on the new drive).
If you want all of your music files to be moved over from your main drive to the external drive, then make sure the Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library option is checked.
Option 2: Import music into iTunes from an external hard drive
If you already have music on a portable hard drive, and just want to get them into iTunes so you can sync up and get those songs on your ipod, then you can just drag and drop those music files onto iTunes.
You can also use the File -- Add Folder to Library menu in iTunes, choose a music folder on your portable drive, and iTunes will add those to your library.
If you uncheck the Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library option, which is on this same tab shown above, then iTunes will leave the files on your external drive.
Question: I've resisted buying an ipod so far because I am an audiophile and I hate the idea of compressed music, which I equate to poor sound quality! Can you transfer whole CDs directly into an ipod from a CD player without compression? If you could, it would still mean you could store around 220 full CDs onto a 160 gb ipod and get absolute sound quality.
Answer: You're going to love the sound that comes from an ipod, for a number of reasons.
First, to answer your question - yes, you can transfer whole CDs to your ipod without compression. Using iTunes, select Edit -- Preferences and then click the Import Settings button to configure CD import settings.
The default import encoder setting is AAC, and you have options for importing at 128kbps or 256kbps (stereo bit rate), or can choose a custom import quality level up to 320kbps.
If you prefer using an MP3 encoder, then you can select that option as well - with custom bit rate options up to 320 kbps.
You probably already know this, but for others reading this article: keep in mind that a larger bit rate settings (the kbps number) means higher quality music files but also larger files. The larger the files, the better they'll sound - in theory anyway - and the less you can store on your ipod.
Most ears won't notice the difference between 128kbps and 256kbps however, especially considering you'll most likely be listening to the music with headphones in an area where other background noises can be heard.
Question: Is there a way to connect your ipod touch to the internet with a laptop with an aircard, either through Wi-Fi, bluetooth, or with a USB cable?
Question: I just bought my two daughters Ipod Touch 2nd Gen for Christmas. They are 10 and 12 yrs old and a bit more technology savvy than I when it comes to handhelds. I am concerned about security. I want to filter their internet on the Touch, but I guess it's not really easy because Apple seems to have missed this, other than shutting off their access all together.
Do you know any solutions? I have a wireless network in my home and the girls desktop computers are running Panda and PC Tattletale as per your recommendation. I want to give them internet access, but want to filter the objectionable content out. Just call me "Parentally Cautious". Thanks for any input!


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Seagate's newest hard drive line up, GoFlex, offers, well, what the name implies, greater flexibility. So what does that mean to the consumer? Now instead of your Firewire hard drive becoming obsolete as a result of a new com...
OCZ Vertex Series OCZSSD2-1VTX60G 60GB Internal SSD – $139 After Rebate
THIS DEAL IS GOOD FOR TODAY ONLY, 5/7. The OCZ Vertex Series OCZSSD2-1VTX60G 60GB Internal SSD has a 2.5-inch form factor, 60GB of storage, a SATA II interface, RAID support and 3 year warranty...along with an ultra fast read/...
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OCZ Technology OCZSSD2-2SLD120G 120GB Solid 2 Series Solid State Drive – $226 After MIR
Amazon has the OCZ Technology OCZSSD2-2SLD120G 120GB Solid 2 Series Solid State Drive for $256.10 - $30 mail-in-rebate + free shipping = $226.10! This SSD hard drive offers super fast read/write times, rugged build (no moving ...
OCZ Enyo USB 3.0 Portable Solid State Drive: Drool
One word comes to mind when I laid eyes on OCZ's Enyo USB 3.0 Portable Solid State Drive: drool. Yeah, that's not really a word; more a feeling. Queue the Reservoir Dogs soundtrack. Moving on shall we. So what is the Enyo US...
Lacie Rugged Drive Arrives This May In A USB 3.0 Flavor
Lacie's brick orange facade has pretty much become iconic of the brand, at least in terms of their protective hard drives. Once again the storage company is back and this time they've got the same familiar form factor and prot...
Patriot Memory PS-100 Signature 32GB Solid State Drive – $85 After MIR
TigerDirect has the Patriot Memory PS-100 Signature 32GB Solid State Drive for a mail-in-rebate. This solid state drive has a SATA interface, 2.5-inch form factor and 64mb cache. It's (more…)
Drobo FS Flies Higher Than Other NAS Thanks To Cloud Like Access
The Drobo, from Data Robotics, is a cool device that's a great way to store lots of files externally. The small black cube is loaded with up to five HDDs, and they all work in tandem to keep your files safe. Now, with the new D...
Xbox 360 USB Drive Update Now Live
The day has come upon us that the Xbox 360 will access USB mass storage...up to 16GB. Just fire up your Xbox and you should be prompted to download an update. After a few minutes you'll be back online and able to format any US...
Xbox 360 Hard Drive 250GB – $97 After Coupons
Gamestop has the Xbox 360 Hard Drive 250GB for $129.99 - 25% coupon (25off) + free ship coupon (saver) = $97.49! Add these coupons and get to checkout to see the final price (Gamestop shows the full retail price when you enter...
USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drives From PQI
So while the majority of us don't have the hardware to support a USB 3.0 device, companies are still making these future forward gadgets. PQI has a new line of USB 3.0 Hard Drives for your time capsule under the model name of ...
Xbox 360 USB Flash Storage Support Confirmed
So the leak was 100% accurate. On April 6th, Microsoft will issue an update that will enable your Xbox 360 to use USB flash drives (or hard drives) to be used for storing profiles, game saves, demos and more. As previously st...
Standalone 250GB Xbox 360 Hard Drive Now Available
Heyo! Looks like I won't have to get a Splinter Cell Conviction Xbox 360 for some much needed storage. Why so? You can now buy a standalone 250GB Xbox 360 hard drive for $130. Amazon will ship it by March 28th. Read


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California Bizav Group Starts Sharing Safety Data
The SoCal Aviation Association (SCAA) has developed what might be the first business aviation-focused system in the U.S. to allow users to read and interact with operational safety data from other members of the same organization. Called Share (Safety Hazard Awareness Reporting & Empowerment), the program uses an open-format interface created by Baldwin Aviation and does not require an operating safety management system (SMS).
SCAA safety committee chairman and Qualcomm chief pilot Candace Covington told AIN the committee has believed for some time it was "leaving an awful lot [of safety data] on the table without sharing it."
Baldwin Aviation president and CEO Don Baldwin emphasized the traditional difficulties with data-sharing that almost got in the way of the new approach. "Most of our clients don't want to share their data," he said.
According to Covington, Share took form after safety committee members attended an airline info-sharing event and realized there was a great deal that could be learned from their fellow business aviation operators. The Share system securely de-identifies the incident data before releasing it for trend analysis. Covington said aircraft are designated only as jet, turboprop or rotary-wing.
One item slowing the process somewhat is the need for each company to file its own internal SMS report and then another version with Share that does not include details identifying the specific operator. As the system becomes more robust, Covington says it will provide more interactivity so pilots and safety managers can ask questions about what they read. "We're still new at this," she said.
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Gifts for travelers
Your favorite traveler deserves gifts that make it easy to get going. We've found some that are functional and a few that are just plain fun for the frequent flier in your life.
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Ready for adventure( Lloyd Fox, Baltimore Sun photo / October 8, 2013 )
The ¿Ritchie¿ travel jacket by Kroon has smart details such as pockets for passports, cell phones, sunglasses and iPods with looping for earbuds. The wool-cashmere blend coat converts to a sport jacket by zipping out the vest. $495 at Hyatt and Co.


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|Anne of Green Gables
by Montgomery, L. M. 1874-1942
This book is about a little red headed freckled orphan named Anne. She finds herself in lots of trouble and loves adventures. This book was great and it is so long it lasts a long time! posted May 9, 2006 at 11:08AM
|The Westing game
by Raskin, Ellen
This book is about a rich millionare who everyone thinks is dead and ends out having a bunch of people he picked play the "Westing game" to see who is worthy of inheriting his fortune. My favorite charactor is Turtle because she was so adventurus. This is my absolute favorite book, and I really suggest you read it! posted May 9, 2006 at 11:08AM
|Belle Prater's boy
by White, Ruth, 1942-
This book is about a boy named Woodrow who's mother disapers one night. His father so afraid sends Woodrow to live with his Grandma and cousin. Together he and his cousin find out more and more about his mothers disapearence, until theyv'e figured out the mystery........ posted May 9, 2006 at 11:08AM


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The movement of nationals of one country into another for the purpose of resettlement, is central to Canadian history, from the native peoples, whose ancestors migrated across the Bering Strait from Asia, to the most recent arrivals.
The movement of nationals of one country into another for the purpose of resettlement, is central to Canadian history, from the native peoples, whose ancestors migrated across the Bering Strait from Asia, to the most recent arrivals. The story of Canadian immigration is not one of orderly population growth; it has been and remains both a catalyst to Canadian economic development and a mirror of Canadian attitudes and values; it has often been unashamedly and economically self-serving and ethnically or racially biased.
Immigration to New France
Throughout the 17th and much of the 18th century, European colonial administrations, charged with overseeing what would become Canada, did not consider settlement a priority. French or British governments initially seemed unprepared to expend vast quantities of money or energy necessary to encourage settlement. Nor was migration to the New World popular in France or Britain. Adventurers, explorers and particularly traders acting for British or French interests feared the interference of settlers in the lucrative trade with the native people.
However, policy eventually changed and colonial authorities carefully and slowly encouraged settlement in Canada, hoping that settlers would guarantee the sovereignty of colonial land claims, would Christianize the native peoples, and would exploit the natural resources, often on behalf of European investors. Settlements grew gradually and not without difficulty. New France's population at the time of the British Conquest (1759-60) was about 65 000. In Nova Scotia a transplanted Scottish community was supplemented by German and Swiss settlers, and in the late 1700s Irish settlers reinforced Newfoundland's population.
Although the British victory brought an end to migration from France, it did not instigate a tide of English-speaking immigrants. Except for a handful of British administrators, military personnel and merchants who filled the vacuum left by their departing French counterparts, few English-speaking settlers seemed interested in Canada. Indeed, it is doubtful whether settlers would have been welcomed by the new British administrators, who feared that an influx of English-speaking, Protestant settlers would complicate administration in a recently conquered Roman Catholic, French-speaking territory. Most British immigrants were far more inclined to seek out the more temperate climate and familiar social institutions of the British colonies to the south.
The Loyalist Immigration
Many of Québec's new British rulers, content to leave the colony to languish as a quiet backwater of the Empire, were soon forced to accept many thousands of English-speaking, largely Protestant settlers displaced by the American Revolution. Known as United Empire Loyalists, they were largely political refugees. Many of them migrated northward not by choice but by default, either because they did not wish to become citizens of the new American republic or because they feared retribution for their public support of the British. For these Loyalists, who eventually formed the core of the colony's ruling oligarchies, Canada was a land of second choice, as it would be for countless future immigrants who came because to remain at home was undesirable, and entry elsewhere, often the US, was restricted.
The Loyalist migration was neither uncontrolled nor unassisted, however. Imperial authorities and military personnel offered supplies to the new settlers and organized the distribution of land. Despite the hardships the settlers endured, their plight was undeniably made less severe by the intervention of government agents, a practice to be repeated in Canada many times.
Throughout the mid-19th century, the colonies, Canada West in particular, returned to a pattern of painfully slow and erratic economic growth. Officially encouraged immigration from England, Scotland and even the US gradually filled the better agricultural lands in the colony and bolstered new commercial or administrative towns. The new immigrants were generally of ethnic stock and outlook similar to that of the established community. But the great Irish potato famine and to a lesser degree a series of abortive European rebellions in 1848 sent new waves of immigrants to North America.
Of these tens of thousands, many were Irish settlers, whose arrival in Canada initiated major social and economic changes. In many respects the Irish were Canada's first enormous wave of foreign immigrants. Although they generally spoke English, they did not mirror the social, cultural or religious values of the majority. Roman Catholic intruders in a Protestant domain, their loyalty to the Crown appeared suspect in a Canada where ardent loyalty was demanded as insurance against the threat of American republicanism. Furthermore, after escaping a life in which farm tenancy and capricious nature made agriculture synonymous with poverty and dependency, some of the famine-stricken Irish had little or no enthusiasm for farm life.
Canadian cities and larger towns quickly developed Irish sections or wards. The Anglo-Protestant majority measured the Irish contribution economically and the Irish deficiencies socially, religiously and racially. On the one hand, many of the Irish created a labour force ready and able to fill the seasonal employment demands of a newly expanded canal system, lumber industry and burgeoning railway network; on the other hand, because of their low income, their Catholicism, the seasonal separation from their families and differences in their way of life, they were a conspicuous minority group. They filled working-class neighbourhoods and inflated majority fears of social evils previously dismissed as peculiar to the US.
For some years the Irish supplied the base of a working-class labour force necessary for the slow advance of communication, commerce and industry, but they remained an adjunct to, rather than a central component of, mainstream North American economic and social life - the basis of which was commerce and agricultural activity. Policy tied population increase to land settlement. Gradual commercial and industrial development usually serviced the agricultural sector, and, because many Irish were not farmers, Irish labourers were seen as rootless.
The Great Western Migration
If agricultural roots and commitment were measured, in part, by land tenure, Canada underwent a shock when arable land began to disappear from the market. Without a large industrial base, with a relatively low death rate, a high birthrate and a small but continual inflow of immigration largely from the British Isles, the immediate post-Confederation era had its overpopulation problems. The US, with its seemingly boundless supply of free, fertile land, attracted thousands of new immigrants and Anglo-Canadians, while French Canadians were drawn to jobs in the factories of New England.
Canadian history has been compared to a journey through the Bible, beginning in Lamentations and ending in Exodus, but in the late 19th century Canada's future Prairie provinces were opened to settlement, although it was not until a market developed for the prairie agricultural output that serious settlement began. The demand for farm goods, especially hard wheat, coincided with the election of Wilfrid Laurier's government, which immediately encouraged the settlement of the West with large-scale immigration. Canada's new and aggressive minister of the interior, Clifford Sifton, organized a revamped and far-reaching program and was prepared, if reluctantly, to admit agricultural settlers from places other than the British Isles, Northern Europe and the US, explaining, "A stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, and a stout wife and a half-dozen children is good quality."
The Sifton comment, however, no matter how often repeated, is not an accurate reflection of government policy. From 1896 to the 1930s, Canadians, their politicians and immigration officials were not receptive to peasants in sheepskin coats. Immigration policy did not involve just an aggressive peopling of the Prairies. It was enacted within the framework of the British Empire, in which Sifton, the Canadian government and most English-speaking Canadians believed.
For English-speaking Canadians the traditional definition of ideal immigrants may have been modified but was not radically altered. Unabashedly colonial, the government defined immigrants who did not originate from the British Isles as foreign; and, unabashedly North American, excluded white, English- speaking immigrants from the US from this category. The ideal immigrants were still British or American independent farmers who would settle in the West. Sifton and the government may only have reflected their times, but Canadian immigration policy and public opinion were nevertheless racist.
Pressed to increase immigration by business and railway interests with visions of an insatiable world demand for Canadian resources, Sifton and his immigration authorities balanced their ethnic anxieties against a frantic search for settlers. They listed ideal settlers in a descending preference. British and American agriculturalists were followed by French, Belgians, Dutch, Scandinavians, Swiss, Finns, Russians, Austro-Hungarians, Germans, Ukrainians and Poles. Close to the bottom of the list came those who were, in both the public and the government's minds, less assimilable and less desirable, eg, Italians, South Slavs, Greeks and Syrians. At the very bottom came Jews, Asians, gypsies and blacks.
Ottawa, however, did not have the only voice when it came to immigration. The British North America Act also gave the provinces a voice in immigration if they chose to run it. Québec, partly in response to the expansion of English-speaking Canada and partly in an effort to stem if not reverse the flow of rural Québec youth to waiting jobs in New England factories, set up its own immigration department. In co-operation with federal authorities, immigration agents were sent into New England to encourage French Canadians to return home to recently opened marginal agricultural lands. The program met with only limited success, but Québec's active determination of its own immigration priorities continued.
In spite of government precautions, not all immigrants committed themselves to resource exploitation or agriculture. Like the Irish before them, many of the "foreign" immigrants, non-English speaking and largely non-Protestant, rejected a life of rural isolation, choosing to work in cities. Furthermore, many of these foreigners saw themselves as living in Canada or North America only temporarily, earning enough money to buy a piece of land at home, to assemble a dowry for a sister or to pay off a family debt. But the many who adopted North American definitions of success or who were unable to return home because of political upheavals established themselves in Canada, bringing wives and children to join them.
If these Jews, Italians, Macedonians, Russians, Finns, Chinese, etc, had been content to play the role reluctantly left for them, if they had accepted rural isolation as the price of their admission into Canada, hostility toward them might have been minimal; but by making their way into Montréal, Winnipeg, Toronto, Hamilton and Vancouver and other centres, they awakened the old ethnic and religious anxieties and prejudices previously reserved for the Irish. They had been allowed into Canada to satisfy the need for a cheap labour force or a pool of skilled craftsmen adaptable to factory and construction.
They were prepared to accept seasonal labour in mining or lumbering (which forced them to drift back into cities during the off-season), but for many Canadians the sudden influx of strange peoples so recently subject to foreign czars, kaisers and gods seemed to threaten the very fabric of Protestant Canadian society. Some Canadians responded with a dignified tolerance. They recognized that these foreigners were here to stay, that their labour and skills were necessary, their living conditions subject to improvement and, perhaps most important, that their children would become integrated, given education and time. But in spite of the vital economic role these immigrants played in urban centres - laying streetcar tracks, labouring in the expanding textile factories and digging the sewer sytems - many Canadians demanded strict enforcement of immigration regulations and restriction of admission along ethnic or racial lines.
During WWI anti-German hysteria erupted in Canada, directed largely against immigrants born in the now enemy countries or those who entered Canada as subjects of enemy monarchs, but also against foreigners who had been born in now allied countries or had come to Canada as subjects of allied monarchs. Despite Canadian military manpower needs, British and Canadian authorities alike felt that, where possible, foreigners belonged in foreign armies. Groups such as Italians, Serbians, Poles and some Jews were encouraged to return to the armies of their mother country or were recruited into specific British army units reserved for allied foreigners of various origins. Without national armies of their own to join, many Jews, Macedonians and Ukrainians volunteered for the Canadian Army.
Once in Canada, many thousands of immigrants did find a place for themselves and their families, but Canadian immigration policy and administration, which bowed to economic necessity by allowing these southern and eastern Europeans into Canada, could not bend enough to admit other would-be immigrants. Head taxes, landing taxes, bilateral restriction agreements and travel restrictions virtually prohibited the immigration of Asians. Canadian authorities refused to allow the settlement of female Asian immigrants, fearing this would encourage Asian men temporarily in Canada as railway or mine labourers to settle permanently and, perhaps more importantly, become the parents of yet another generation of the "yellow peril."
In 1914 almost 400 East Indians aboard the immigrant ship Komagata Maru languished in Vancouver harbour while Canadian authorities debated what to do with them. Canada's new navy, in action for the first time, escorted the ship from Canadian waters while many Vancouver residents cheered approvingly from shore. In 1910 and 1911 rumours had spread that a group of blacks was preparing to migrate to central Alberta. Descendants of freed slaves, they were being pushed from their land in Oklahoma territory, where they had been granted holdings and hoped to build new lives.
Public and political response in Alberta was immediate and predictable. Federal authorities initiated an ingeniously simple scheme. Nothing in the Immigration Act specifically barred black Americans, but any immigrant could effectively be denied access to Canada for health reasons under the Act's medical provisions. The government merely instructed immigration inspectors and their medical aides along the American border to reject all blacks as unfit for admission on medical grounds. There was no appeal. Blacks were warned they should not waste their time and money by considering immigration to Canada.
As a result of the dramatic and devastating economic collapse caused by the Great Depression, the need for the government's selective encouragement of immigration faded. Immigration authorities worked not to stimulate admissions but to prevent them. By 1933 Hitler ruled Germany, and millions of political opponents and Jews might have survived if Canada or other countries had offered innocent victims a home. Although many Canadians responded to the refugees with a mixture of sympathy for their desperate plight and embarrassment at the lack of government aid, others, including the federal Cabinet, many in the diplomatic corps and, of course, immigration policymakers, reacted with alarm to any pressure to accept Jews or political refugees escaping Germany. As a result, few refugees were able to break Canadian immigration restrictions.
The Postwar Era and the Removal of Racial and Ethnic Barriers
At war's end in 1945, Canadian immigration regulations remained unchanged from the restrictive prewar years. But change was not long in coming. Driven by a postwar economic boom, growing job market and a resulting demand for labour, Canada gradually re-opened its doors to European immigration, first to immigrants Canada traditionally preferred - those from the United Kingdom and Western Europe - but eventually to the rest of Europe as well. With the onset of the Cold War, however, immigration from Eastern Europe came to a halt. Borders to the west were closed by the Soviet Union and its allies. However, large numbers of immigrants entered Canada from southern Europe, particularly Italy, Greece and Portugal.
Unlike the mass immigration of an earlier era, this postwar immigration was not streamed exclusively into agricultural or rural-based resource extractive industries such as mining or lumbering. Canada emerged from World War II as an urban, industrial power, and many postwar immigrants soon filled jobs in the new urban-based manufacturing and construction sectors, some building the expanding city infrastructure and others, the better educated immigrants, meeting the strong demand for trained and skilled professionals.
Canadian immigration also underwent other dramatic changes in the postwar years. Canadian governments, federal and provincial, slowly yielded to pressure for human rights reform from an earlier generation of immigrants and their children. Increasingly middle class and politically active, the now well-integrated immigrants had sacrificed in common cause with other Canadians in the war effort and in the postwar era they refused to assume second-class status in the country they had helped to protect. Supported by like-minded Canadians, they rejected legally sanctioned ethnic and racial discrimination in Canada and demanded human rights reform. They forced governments to legislate against discrimination on account of race, religion and origin in such areas as employment, accommodation and education. And, just as Canada was making discrimination illegal at home, the federal government moved to eliminate racial, religious or ethnic barriers to Canadian immigration.
The last vestiges of racial discrimination in immigration were gone from Canadian immigration legislation and regulations by the late 1960s. This opened Canada's doors to many of those who would previously have been rejected as undersirable. In 1971, for the first time in Canadian history, the majority of those immigrating into Canada were of non-European ancestry. This has been the case every year since. As a result, today Canada is not just a multicultural society, it is also a multiracial society to a degree unimaginable to earlier generations of Canadians.
That does not mean that anyone who wishes to enter Canada may do so. Far from it. While restrictions on account of race or national origin are gone, Canada still maintains strict criteria for determining who is and who is not a desirable candidate for Canadian entry. In the late 1960s Canada introduced a point system for determining the desirability of individuals applying to immigrate to Canada.
Under this system, each applicant was awarded points for criteria such as age, education, ability to speak English or French and demand for that particular applicant's job skills. If an applicant was in good health and of good character and scored enough points, he or she was granted admission together with their spouse and dependent children. Those who did not score enough points were denied admission. More recently, Canada has modified its procedures to give preference to the admission of independent, skilled, and perhaps most importantly, immediately employable immigrants.
Once established in Canada, each new arrival, now called a "landed immigrant," has all the rights of born Canadians except political rights, such as the right to vote. After a specified number of years (recently reduced from 5 to 3 years), each landed immigrant may apply for Canadian citizenship and, once granted, has the same political rights as Canadian-born citizens. In addition, landed immigrants, like Canadian citizens, may also apply to sponsor the admission to Canada of close family members who might not otherwise be able to satisfy stringent Canadian admission criteria. The sponsor must agree to ensure anyone brought into Canada will not become an economic burden to Canadian society. For many years, sponsored families of those already in Canada were the single largest group of those admitted into Canada.
Since the end of WWII refugees and others dispossessed by war and violence have become a significant part of Canada's immigration flow. In the postwar labour shortage Canada admitted tens of thousands of displaced persons, individuals made homeless by the war or who, at war's end, found themselves outside of their country of citizenship, to which they refused to return. Among the displaced persons were Jewish Holocaust survivors who had no community or family to which they could return. Other displaced persons refused repatriation back to countries which had fallen under Soviet domination. Many resettled in Canada, where they built new lives.
During the 1960s and 1970s Canada also responded to the plight of refugees from other troubled areas. In the aftermath of the unsuccessful Hungarian uprising of 1967 and the crushing of political reform in Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1973, refugees fled westward. Canada responded by setting aside its normal immigration procedures to admit its share of refugees. In the years that followed, Canada again made special allowance for refugees from political upheavals in Uganda, Chile and elsewhere. In each of these cases, however, the refugees were admitted as an exception to the immigration regulations and without following all the usual immigration procedures.
In 1978, however, Canada enacted a new Immigration Act that, for the first time, affirmed Canada's commitment to the resettlement of refugees from oppression; that is, persons who have a well-founded fear of persecution in their country of citizenship. Accordingly, refugees would no longer be admitted to Canada as an exception to immigration regulations. Admission of refugees was now part of Canadian immigration law and regulations. But refugee admission has remained controversial and difficult to administer.
On the surface the admission of refugees seems simple enough. Every year Canada sets aside a minority portion of the total target number of immigrants it intends to admit for refugees. But there are 2 very different routes by which refugees have arrived in Canada. Most are carefully selected abroad. In co-operation with other countries and international refugee agencies, each Canadian immigration official goes overseas to interview and pick refugees for resettlement in Canada from among those who have found temporary sanctuary outside their country of citizenship, often in a neighbouring country. This process has generally worked smoothly.
The first major refugee resettlement program under this new legislation was during the early 1980s, when Canada led the Western world in its welcome to Southeast Asian refugees and particularly those from Vietnam, often referred to as the "boat people." Many of the boat people were selected from among those who escaped Vietnam in tiny boats and eventually found themselves confined to refugee camps in Thailand or Hong Kong awaiting permanent homes.
The other route refugees have taken into Canada is far more controversial. Canada has had to deal with persons who are not chosen abroad by immigration officials but who somehow make their way to Canada and, once in Canada, declare themselves to be refugees. In recent years these have included persons who claimed refugee status in Canada after disembarking from flights between Eastern Europe and Cuba which land to refuel in Gander, Nfld, and men, women and children who have escaped the horror of war and persecution in Central America, Africa, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and China to seek sanctuary in Canada.
Once in Canada each arrival claimed to be a refugee with a legitimate fear of persecution in his or her homeland. In a world in which political torture and murder is all too common, it became the responsibility of Canadian officials to determine if each individual claimant was truly a refugee or not. To do this Canada devised an inland refugee determination process designed to judge each claim. If determined to be a legitimate refugee, the claimant is granted the right to stay in Canada as an immigrant. If not, the claimant may be deported.
Late 20th Century
In the 1980s the number of those entering Canada and applying for refugee status grew steadily and the Canadian determination process was hard-pressed to process applicants quickly. Nor were refugee claimants universally welcomed by Canadians. Some Canadians worried that many of the refugee claimants, including some who successfully made it through the determination process, were not really legitimate refugees but individuals looking for a way around tough Canadian immigration regulations.
Some accused refugees of abusing "the system" and clogging up the immigration and refugee determination process. Still others argued that by allowing persons to claim refugee status from within Canada, Canada was denying itself the opportunity to pick and choose among the pool of refugees abroad and take only those refugees best suited to Canada. Canada, it was argued, should select refugees, not allow refugees to select Canada.
The refugee issue was dramatically brought home to Canadians in the late 1980s, when 2 ships illegally stranded their respective cargoes of Sikh and Tamil refugee claimants on Canada's east coast. Amid greatly exaggerated fears that Canada was about to be flooded with refugees, Parliament and immigration authorities began tightening up refugee regulations and procedures. The result has been a continual streamlining or hardening of the Canadian refugee determination process and a shortening of the time between a refugee claimant's arrival in Canada and the time the claimant is either granted permission to stay or is forced to leave. While some Canadians are concerned that these changes mean that some legitimate refugees are now being denied Canadian sanctuary, Canadian authorities have been working closely with other countries and transportation companies to make it more difficult for individuals who might make a refugee claim to reach Canada. This effort to stop would-be refugee claimants from getting to Canada is called interdiction.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, even as it was seeking to forestall the entry of would-be refugee claimants, Canada opened new avenues for other immigrants to enter the country, especially those with employable skills or significant financial resources. Beginning during the Mulroney Conservative government, those with capital that they were prepared to invest in Canadian enterprises or with money and skills necessary to start business which promised to create new employment and wealth in Canada were invited to apply for Canadian immigration. Many did.
Through much of the 1990s the number of entrepreneurial or business immigrants rose dramatically, eventually reaching 6% of all immigrants entering Canada. Of these, appreciable numbers of entrepreneurial-class immigrants have come from Hong Kong, many seeking a safe harbour for themselves, their families and their assets in advance of the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong in 1997. It was natural that many should respond to Canada's invitation and the opportunities offered for capital investment in Canada. As a result, Canada became a prime destination for Hong Kong and other Chinese immigration and for capital in flight. Hong Kong and other Chinese immigration has been especially pronounced in larger urban areas such as Vancouver and Toronto, where the Chinese community now constitutes the largest immigrant groups. Most of these entrepreneurial-class immigrants did not arrive speaking English or French, and this has led to calls for tougher language requirements for those coming to Canada. An economic slowdown in Asia in the late 1990s reduced the number of immigrants to Canada and was partly responsible for Canada's failure to reach its projected annual target for immigration admissions in the past several years, approximately 220 000 immigrants or 1% of the Canadian population.
In the quickly changing national and international economic climate of the late 1990s, Canadian immigration re-emerged as a topic of public debate. And given the continuing impact of immigration on Canadian society, it is only natural that there be such a debate. While many economists argue that Canada, with its relatively low birth rate and greying population, needs the infusion of population, energy, skills, capital and buying power that immigrants bring to Canada, other Canadians harbour doubts. Talk of the "new economy," with more and more jobs requiring a highly skilled work force, has led some to conclude that immigrants, or at least the kinds of immigrants that Canada welcomed in the past, are no longer necessary. Some fear that without a change in immigrant requirements, immigrants to Canada will not create wealth but take up what few low-paying jobs are available. In addition, with immigrants of non-European origin making up a large majority of those entering Canada, some Canadians express uneasiness at the changing character of urban Canada and the potential for racial tension.
Public debate on immigration in Canada has remained civil, and certainly free of the kind of violence against new arrivals witnessed in France and Germany. Indeed, on the whole, Canadians generally remain supportive of immigration in spite of the reservations expressed by some. As part of the larger public debate on immigration, in the mid-1990s the federal government commissioned a panel to review Canadian immigration legislation and policy. The panel submitted its report in 1998. Not all of its recommendations have been accepted, but as Canada enters a new millennium the government is expected to begin public consultations on recommendations leading to an overhaul of immigration policy which, it is hoped, will bring immigration more in line with Canada's changing economic and social reality.
In particular, it is expected that Canada will put increased emphasis on encouraging the arrival of highly educated immigrants who show the kind of economic flexibility needed to succeed in a constantly changing Canadian job market. It is also expected that Canada will affirm its commitment to remain a leader in refugee resettlement, although the country is likely to continue slowing the arrival of refugee claimants in favour of refugees selection abroad. But even as Canadians debate the future of immigration, they can take pride in Canada's long tradition of immigration, the resourcefulness of immigrants, their readiness to help build Canadian society and the richness of their cultural contribution to the life of their adopted land.
Suggested Reading
Donald H. Avery, Reluctant Host: Canada's Response to Immigrant Workers, 1896-1994 (1995); H. Cowen, British Emigration to British North America (1961); E.C. Guillet, The Great Migration (1963); H. Troper, Only Farmers Need Apply (1972); R. Hurney and Harold Troper, Immigrants: A Portrait of the Urban Experience (1975); Gerald E. Dirks, Canada's Refugee Policy (1977); Reg Whitaker, Double Standard: The Secret History of Canadian Immigration (1987).
Links to other sites
ASIA/CANADAThis beautifully illustrated site explores the relationship between East and West from earliest times to the present with a focus on the very complex Asian experience in Canada. Search for specific topics and themes. From Historica Canada.
PASSAGES TO CANADAImmigrants to Canada from around the world have encountered many hardships, opportunities, and successes as they set out to establish a better life for themselves and their families in their adopted country. Listen to some of their personal stories at the "Passages to Canada" website. From Historica Canada.
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African Newspapers, 1800-1922 Over 40 online, full text historical newspapers from many African countries.
American National Biography Online Detailed and authoritative biographical information on over 6,000 figures in US and Colonial history. Includes the complementary Oxford Companion to US History.
Congressional Hearings Digital Collection Full text collection of all Congressional Hearings covering 1824-2003. The collection includes related reports, correspondence, exhibits, and articles.
Digital National Security Archive A comprehensive set of declassified government documents covering critical US policy decisions from 1945 to the present.
Illustrated London News 1842-2003 Historical archive of the world's first pictorial weekly newspaper. Pages are fully searchable.
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