ABSTRACT
Migration is a very important element in Anglo-Canadian relations which has been largely ignored in the conventional treatment of the changing relationship between these two states since the Second World War. Migration in Anglo-Canadian relations involves the constant movement of people to and fro across the Atlantic: considerable flows of visitors, permanent settlers and transients; countless journeys of businessmen, professionals, scholars and students, itinerant nurses and secretaries, and a large number of relatives, British and Canadian, who travel either or both ways each year to sustain family ties in the two countries. Many things flow from this vast human traffic. If inter-governmental communication between Britain and Canada grows less (or changes in character), communication between individuals grows ever larger in volume. Never reflected in press or mass media, the sound waves, the undersea cables, the freight space in ship and aircraft continually convey the products of an unending communication and exchange, between populations in much closer touch than the literature of international and Commonwealth relations has ever managed to convey.
