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English Canada and Murray Watson University Manitoba Press

Murray Watson University Manitoba Press: In the post-Second World War years, over half a million war-weary English citizens, like many immigrants before them, flocked to Canada in search of a better life, according to Winnipeg Free Press. But despite being the largest group of arriving immigrants to Canada during those years, the English have tended to be virtually invisible, say the authors of this scholarly, knowledgeable and informative historical work. BOOK REVIEWInvisible Immigrants: The English in Canada since 1945By Marilyn Barber and Murray Watson University of Manitoba Press, 283 pages, $28 Invisible Immigrants. Because little has been written about this enormous group of immigrants who came from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, Invisible Immigrants seeks to address this neglected area of our history. Authors Marilyn Barber and Murray Watson share excerpts of the actual recorded interviews and written testimonies of more than 70 English migrants. There is a wealth of information here, much of it garnered from interviews with English immigrants who came to Canada during that period and stayed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.