Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--York University, 2010, under title: Pan-Americanism re-invented in Uncle Sam's backyard : Catholic and Latin identity in French Canada and Mexico in the first half of the 20th century.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The Cultural, Economic, and Political Factors that Shaped Canadian-Mexican Relations -- Conflicts, Political Upheavals, and Catholic Mutual Interests, 1917-1939 -- The Union des Latins d'Amérique: Re-inventing French Canada's Transnational Relations -- The Poetics of Student Exchanges: Fighting the War's Homogenizing Consequences -- The Virgin and the Cardinal: Symbolic Politics in Manuel Ávila Camacho's Mexico -- Conclusion.

Nationalists from Quebec and Catholic militants from Mexico once shared a common cause, one that influenced international relations between their two countries. This book considers how and why groups from Mexico and Quebec actively sought to establish close cultural and political links.