Throughout the 1920s Canadian politicians, immigration officials, eugenicists and political commentators talked about the need to ‘Canadianize’ all migrants who arrived in the dominion, including those from the mother country. This did not mean that Ottawa was out to ‘de-Britannicize’ those arriving from the United Kingdom. British migrants were given preferred status because their common heritage and shared cultural values mirrored those of most Anglo-Canadians. In other words, ‘Britishness’ made up the bedrock of Anglo-Canadian ‘national’ identity prior to the Second World War. Nonetheless, tensions existed between the competing notions of what it was to be ‘British’, ‘Canadian’ or what John Darwin has posited, the formation of a ‘Britannic’ identity. Using the formulation and implementation of assisted migration and empire settlement between 1919 and 1930 as a backcloth, this paper chronicles the long forgotten controversy surrounding the competing national and imperial interests that exacerbated relations between London and Ottawa after the Great War.

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补给英国世界：帝国移民与英加关系，1919–30年

在整个1920年代，加拿大政客，移民官员，优生主义者和政治评论家都谈到有必要“加拿大化”所有到达该领地的移民，包括来自该国的移民。这并不意味着渥太华要对来自英国的移民进行“不列颠人化”。英国移民被赋予优先地位，因为他们的共同遗产和共同的文化价值观反映了大多数加拿大裔加拿大人的情况。换句话说，“英国性”构成了第二次世界大战前盎格鲁-加拿大“民族”身份的基石。尽管如此，在关于“英国”，“加拿大”或约翰·达尔文提出的主张之间的对立概念之间存在着紧张关系，形成了“英国”身份。