Out of the remote and little known region of northern, eastern, and southern Europe forever marches a vast and endless army.

Preface: What does the ordinary Canadian know about our immigrants?

Introduction: Perhaps the largest and most important problem that the North American continent has before it to-day for solution is to show how the incoming tides of immigrants of various nationalities and different degrees of civilization may be assimilated and made worthy citizens of the great Commonwealths. J. W. Sparling

Strangers within Our Gates was first published in 1909 by the Young People's Forward Movement Department of the Methodist Church. Marilyn Barber