The political refugees : a history of Estonians in Canada

[Generations: A History of Canada's Peoples. A series commissioned by the Department of the Secretary of State of Canada.] A well researched volume on the Estonian Community in Canada | The first section explains the settlement story of the Estonians in their native environment on the south shore of the Baltic Sea across from Finland, their singularly unhappy modern history as unwilling victims of the major powers of the Baltic region, and the reasons for Estonian immigration to Canada (almost all of which took place between 1948 and 1953). The second section details the organizations and activities of the Estonian community in Canada (of which Tartu College is perhaps best known to Torontonians). The third section deals with the problems experienced by the new arrivals in adapting to their new homeland and the future prospects of the Estonian community in Canada. Sixteen pages of black-and-white photographs accompany the text, and there is a highly useful appendix of 14 separate tables of statistics, which clearly delineate the Estonian place in the overall Canadian demographic picture" viii, 193p.+18 unnumbered pages of plates. illus. tables.bibliography,index, Text tight,neat complete but library marks, cover slightly scuffed.