PART I: Natives and Newcomers in Early "Canada"
Chapter 1: Canada When Europeans Arrived — Olive Patricia Dickinson
Chapter 2: Slavery, the Loyalists, and English Canada, 1760–1801 — Robin W. Winks
Chapter 3: Americans in Upper Canada, 1791–1812: "Late Loyalists" or Early Immigrants — Peter Marshall
Chapter 4: Land and Settlement in Nova Scotia — James St. G. Walker

PART II: Space and Racialized Communities
Chapter 5: "We had no desire to be set apart": Forced Segregation of Black Students in Canada West Public Schools and Myths of British Egalitarianism — Kristin McLaren
Chapter 6: The Colonial Sojourners, 1858–1871 — Patricia E. Roy
Chapter 7: Creating Outsiders, 1875–1903 — Kay J. Anderson

PART III: Dangerous Others: Non-Citizens and the State
Chapter 8: Two Acres and a Cow: "Peasant" Farming for the Indians of the Northwest, 1889–97 — Sarah A. Carter
Chapter 9: European Immigrant Workers and Labour Protest in Peace and War, 1896–1919 — Donald Avery
Chapter 10: "Mixing with People on Spadina": The Tense Relations between Non-Jewish Workers and Jewish Workers — Ruth A. Frager
Chapter 11: Proletarian Ideology — Carmela Patrias

PART IV: Gate-keeping: Enemies Without and Within
Chapter 12: Racial Purity, Sexual Purity, and Immigration Policy — Mariana Valverde
Chapter 13: Stemming the Flood of Defective Aliens — Angus McLaren
Chapter 14: Evacuation — Peter W. Ward
Chapter 15: The Evacuation of the Japanese Canadians, 1942: A Realist Critique of the Received Version — J.L. Granatstein and Gregory A. Johnson

PART V: The Post-War Era: New Rights and New Racisms
Chapter 16: "We weren't allowed to go into factory work until Hitler started the war": The 1920s to the 1940s — Dionne Brand
Chapter 17: From Contadina to Woman Worker — Franca Iacovetta
Chapter 18: Marginalized and Dissident Non-Citizens: Foreign Domestic Workers — Daiva K. Stasiulis and Abigail B. Bakan
Chapter 19: The Economic Exclusion of Racialized Communities—A Statistical Profile — Grace-Edward Galabuzi