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Brazilian Studies in Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

W. E. Hewitt
W. E. Hewitt*
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario
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As a national group, Canadians are frequently viewed as an outward-looking people with an innate thirst for knowledge about the social, economic, and political customs of other nationalities. Traditionally, such curiosity has extended to countries that have played a large role in shaping contemporary Canadian society, especially the United States and the former colonizing powers of Europe. More recently, however, owing at least partly to changing patterns of immigration to Canada and the growth in hemispheric cultural and economic ties, curiosity has turned more and more toward Canada's neighbors to the south, the countries of Latin America.

Type
Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , 1995 , pp. 130 - 145
Copyright
Copyright © 1995 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

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The author wishes to thank Roderick Barman, Jean Daudelin, Philippe Faucher, Jock Galloway, and Jon Tolman for their comments on earlier drafts of this report.

References

1. The data that inform the following discussion were taken from “Brasil Será Exceção,” Folha de São Paulo, 26 May 1993, pp. 1–6; Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce, Background on Brazil (Toronto: BCCC, 1989); External Affairs and International Trade Canada, Fact Sheet: Federative Republic of Brazil, 1992 (Ottawa: Government of Canada, 1992); and Fundação Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, Anuário Estatístico do Brasil, 1992 (Rio de Janeiro: FIBGE, 1993).

2. Brazilian investment in Canada has traditionally been more modest but has been increasing in recent years.

3. The Brazil-Quebec Chamber of Commerce has also recently been created under the sponsorship of the Quebec Ministry of International Affairs. The Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce remains the dominant force in the sector, however.

4. A more recent directory in electronic form, The Inter-American Database Service, was also published by CALACS in 1993. It provides basic information on the location and general research interests of individuals and institutions in Canada and beyond. But unlike the more comprehensive version published in 1987, the new directory gives no indication of the level of activity of persons or institutions in specific areas of Latin American studies. Consequently, this source was not used in the present study.

5. This information was taken from CALACS, Directory of Canadian Theses on Latin American and Caribbean Topics, 1927–1980, edited by Denise F. Brown and Herman Konrad (Calgary: CALACS, 1982); and National Library of Canada online service, CAN/OLE.

6. To some extent, this may soon be rectified, owing to studies currently under way or planned by historian Dawn L. Raby at Erindale College, University of Toronto.