International Student Integration into the Canadian University: A Post-World War Two Historical Case Study

This study claims that the scholars of both Canadian immigration and the social history of student life have neglected to examine the international student presence in Canada, increasingly important at its universities since 1945. Using a historical case study approach and based on a corpus of sources such as student, staff and faculty interviews, student publications, and university documentary and statistical records, this article, as an initial exploration, traces and analyzes the experiences of international students who studied at St. Francis Xavier University in Atlantic Canada since World War II.