ABSTRACT
Some time ago I made a presentation to a public audience on the topic of ‘mailorder brides’. The press in Canada picked up on this, and I was asked for interview after interview for both press and broadcast media. It seemed that, as Langevin and Belleau found, the
exotic and mysterious phenomenon of ‘mail-order’ brides arouses curiosity. Moreover, many people are sceptical of its existence in Canada. The idea of men looking for wives in far-off lands is intriguing. Who are these men in search of brides? What exactly are they looking for? How do they go about it? … Who are the women who immigrate to Canada in this way?1
