Tracking the Cheshire Cat: Ethnic Americans and American Ethnicity on Cape Breton Island

• Published in: Ethnologies
• Main Author: Taft, Michael
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Association Canadienne d’Ethnologie et de Folklore 1991
• Subjects: Canada; Breton Island
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1081697ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1081697ar

Among the largest, yet most neglected, ethnic groups in Canada are those who have emigrated from the United States. While their differences from other ethnie and immigrant groups are quite evident — no American clubs, festivals, native foods and dances, etc. — their identity as a national, immigrant...