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Sendzikas, Aldona. "Due North: The American Search for a New Frontier in the Twentieth Century," University of Hawaii, Manoa, May 2002.
Although Frederick Jackson Turner claimed in 1893 that America’s western frontier was “closed,” the American drive to expand was not extinguished. Beginning with the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897 and continuing throughout the twentieth century, many Americans looked north and saw in Canada a new frontier, embodying many of the same images that had drawn Americans westward. Miners seeking quick wealth, settlers seeking affordable farm land, would-be soldiers seeking adventure, war resisters fleeing military service, criminals seeking sanctuary-numerous Americans headed north in pursuit of this new frontier and all that the frontier symbolizes in the American mind: an unspoiled wilderness, a fertile garden, a welcoming refuge, a land of promise, or an alternate new world. In the twentieth century, Canada became a part of the American frontier myth, while at the same time these American migrations contributed to Canada’s own national identity and mythology.
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