Remittance Man, a term once widely used, especially in the West before WWI, for an immigrant living in Canada on funds remitted by his family in England, usually to ensure that he would not return home and become a source of embarrassment.
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- (2015). Remittance Man. In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/remittance-man
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Remittance Man
Published Online February 7, 2006
Last Edited July 17, 2015
Remittance Man, a term once widely used, especially in the West before WWI, for an immigrant living in Canada on funds remitted by his family in England, usually to ensure that he would not return home and become a source of embarrassment.