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The ever-informative Immigration Watch Canada had a post up on August 28th going through the gamut of immigrants coming to Canada from 1899-1909, as discussed by James Shaver (J.S.) Woodsworth, founder of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (the CCF)) and predecessor of the New Democratic Party.
No-one from the NDP would talk this way now, except in the restriction, labour union sort of way which sometime makes the NDP sound like they have affinities with the far right (only an illusion, though).
Mr. Woodsworth's words show that Canada was a much more conservative country then, when even a left-leaning party was able to talk unabashedly about immigration restritction, and the loss of the Canadian identity due to high levels of "orientals."
Please do read the whole post. It is entertaining, as well as sobering.