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  • 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 … . [3] Insofar as provincial legislation on agriculture or immigration “is not repugnant to any Act of the Parliament of Canada,” provincial …
  • F.C. Crosman
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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 principal tasks for the Museum has been to introduce and orient visitors to the historic place as they … – even things as tiny and offbeat as the addition of miniature trash cans – that would add opportunities for richer interpretation based on …
  • “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 … implementation of that refusal supports the description offered in the official government apology of 2018 for denying sanctuary to the … the Chinese café.” [10] However, the responses of Canadian immigration officials to growing numbers of Jewish immigrants show that even …
  • General WC Langfitt
    … photograph, be sure to include the ship name and accession number (i.e. DI2012.1.1). … General WC Langfitt …
  • Jean V.K. Gerrard Campbell
    … Jean was born December 29, 1924 and grew up in London, England. They experienced very different beginnings – Bill grew up an only child, … up with the Canadian Army July 1941 at Stanley Barracks, Toronto, did his basic training in Kingston, Ontario, convoyed to Debert, Nova … factory where Jean was working as part of the war effort. Prior to this she had worked on the London buses, but because she found the shift …
  • 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 …
  • Resettling Child Refugees: Canada and Armenian Orphans, 1923-1927
    … legal documentation and provide testimony to a federal immigration official that he or she is a minor. Otherwise, within Canadian immigration policy, … who were resettled in Canada, between 1869 and 1932. But little has been written about another, much smaller, experiment nearly a …
  • “The Immigration Act a weapon”: Panama Maru and the Exclusion of Immigrants, 1913
    … by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) On 17 October 1913, Panama Maru … Their experience with Canadian immigration policies and law sheds light on the nature of immigrant exclusion from Canada in the … (Q): What did you tell the Immigration Officer on the boat? Mr Singh (A): A man at Hong Kong told me to say what I said on the boat. Q: Is …
  • Legacy Gift
    … Your Story. Canada's Story. Telling our stories preserves our history. A gift in your Will preserves Canada’s immigration stories, forever. Here are two stories from caring and compassionate Canadians like you who have taken the step of remembering … create or update your Will and consider what type of legacy gift is best for you. Examples you may consider using: Specific Bequest I give …

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