• The Colour Bar at the Canadian Border: Black American Farmers
    … 20, 2021) “I am not sure whether it will interest you or not but I may state that a number of coloured people have been going from your … exclusion? Speers addressed this in his report: “… no matter how we may deplore this condition of affairs, [it] positively exists and … intercepted by such prohibitory means as the wisdom of the Department may deem expedient.” [22] Those prohibitory means included remarkable …
  • The Action Test of 1920: Literacy and Selection in Canadian Immigration
    … By Steven Schwinghamer, Historian For over a century, Canadian immigration authorities have used language proficiency as a point of consideration in deciding whether a migrant is admissible to Canada. [1] This is not generally a … controversial aspect of current Canadian immigration policy, but when the practice first emerged as an immigration control measure in the …
  • Deportation from Canada during the Great Depression
    … The countries that boasted of their liberal attitudes toward new settlers – particularly the countries of the Western Hemisphere – are much … entered Canada per year , an enormous drop from an average of about 126,000 per year during the 1920s. [4] Clifford Sifton, one of the … Wood for Cookhouse”. Relief work, Whitemouth Manitoba, August 1934. Credit: Library and Archives Canada, PA-034947 This tolerant approach …
  • “The existing Immigration regulations will not offer any solution”: MS St. Louis in Canadian Context
    … federal immigration structure at Confederation until the massive resettlement programs following the Second World War, Canadian … community organizations and immigration authorities to admit and settle Jewish immigrants to Canada, exclusionary attitudes and … apology of 2018 for denying sanctuary to the passengers of St. Louis : “The story of the St. Louis and its passengers is no isolated incident. …
  • Resettling Child Refugees: Canada and Armenian Orphans, 1923-1927
    … Introduction For centuries, child orphans have sought permanent resettlement in Canada. Refugee orphans seeking to enter Canada today must … in aid of the Armenian Refugees (Lord Mayor’s) Fund, 13 June 1917. Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1983-28-291 Armenian … McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005), 161-163. Apramian, 25-26; AGCCC, "Georgetown Boys." Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill, "Armenians" …
  • Elfriede Gruber and George Novotny
    … The Sea and the Northern Lights The Second World War was a difficult time for many, and for young "inlanders" like me there was the added … being fought. But there I was, 21 years of age, and finally I had the chance to get my sea legs. It was just before Christmas, 1950, when my … Elfriede Gruber and George Novotny …
  • Historic Pier 21
    … 28, 2022) Pier 21 was built as one of four adjoining waterfront sheds, the key transit areas of Halifax’s South End Ocean Terminals. The overall development included the grain elevator system, hotel and rail station, rail car maintenance shed, the four waterfront sheds and an annex building for the …
  • Annual Reports and Quarterly Financial Reports
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  • Hooks for History: Using a Building Model to Introduce Complex Pasts
    … (Updated July 20, 2021) Our Museum is located at a National Historic Site: Halifax’s historical immigration facility at Pier 21. One of the … as they stand in the converted, modern space of the Museum. One of my favourite tools for this has been a scale model of the historic …
  • Port of Precedence: A History of Immigration at the Port of Quebec Part 1
    … 2020) Introduction Before the arrival of Europeans, Algonquin and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) nations were the primary inhabitants along the … , meaning “big waterway”) and the area later encompassing Quebec City (known in Algonquin as Kébec , meaning “where the river narrows”). … marked the demographic, sociocultural, and economic fibres of Quebec City. The migrating local populace and incoming European immigrants had …