At that time, Amsterdam investment- houses and members of Holland's economic elite had become involved in the business opportunities presented by the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the opening up of the new lands of the Northwest Territories. [...] Half-truths and deceptions were the ;£ THE LAST ILLUSION stock-in-trade of many recruiters, and wilful blindness and the desire to believe in the possibility of a better future were the responses of the recruits. [...] Even if the promises of the recruiters did not match the reality of their experiences, most had not expected heav- en on earth, and as the old Dutch saying had it: "A bird in the hand is worth ten in the air." By the eve of the Great War the Dutch had established a good reputation for themselves on the Canadian prairies. [...] The focus of immigrant interest now shifted from the prairie west to the farm lands of Ontario, where the demand was the greatest and the jobs most remunerative. [...] The scrapbooks continued to grow as the emigrants wrote to the newspapers during the twenties and into the first few years of the thirties.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references: p. 223
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971/.0043931
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Includes index Letters translated from the original Dutch Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- ISBN
- 9781552383810 1552380130
- LCCN
- F1035.D8
- LCCN Item number
- L37 1999eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- 1 electronic text (238 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)rjv00101369 (OCoLC)144080672 (CaOOCEL)402731
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 6
- Introduction 8
- De Vrije Socialist (The Free Socialist), 2 July 1924 26
- De Arnhemsche Courant (The Arnhem Journal), 17 January 1925 30
- De Avondpost (The Evening Mail), 13, 14, 15 January 1925 (Emigration to Canada, by a Canadian Emigrant) 33
- Hoogeveensche Courant (The Hoogeveen Journal), 23 December 1925 44
- De Nieuwe Tilburgsche Courant (The New Tilburg Journal), 29 December 1925, 16 March 1926, 25 March 1926, 26 May 1926 46
- Haagsche Post (The Hague Mail), 24 April 1926 (The Canadian in a Higher Vocation) 54
- De Arnhemsche Courant (The Arnhem Journal), 4 February 1928 (A Word of Warning) 56
- Het Vaderland (The Fatherland), 10 March 1929 to 3 January 1930 (On Canada's Devil's Island) 59
- De Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant (The New Rotterdam Journal), 29 October to 13 November 1927 (Lost Among the Ruthenians) 80
- Dagblad Van Arnhem (The Arnhem Daily), 1 December to 15 December 1928 (An American Scene in the Far North) 95
- Schuitemaker's Purmerender Courant (Schuitemaker's Purmerender Journal), 28 April 1925 to 12 November 1927, (J. R. van der Meulen: Canada is a Funny Country) 103
- Leeuwarder Nieuwsblad (The Leeuwarden News), 4 April 1927 to 11 April 1929, (Frans van Waeterstadt: The Last Illusion) 134
- De Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant (The New Rotterdam Journal), 29 September 1929 to 1 June 1930, (Toronto the Beautiful) 190
- Index 228
- A 228
- B 228
- C 229
- D 230
- E 231
- F 232
- G 233
- H 233
- I 234
- J 234
- K 234
- L 235
- M 235
- N 236
- O 236
- P 237
- Q 237
- R 237
- S 238
- T 239
- U 240
- V 240
- W 240
- Y 241
