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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 controversial aspect of current Canadian immigration policy, but when the practice first emerged as an …
  • Able Seaman Leo Patrick Caine
    … Able Seaman Leo Patrick Caine …
  • Deportation from Canada during the Great Depression
    … In the 1930s, Canadians experienced a profound economic recession complicated by drought and the collapse of trade: the Great Depression. … 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 … Throughout The World”, The American Journal of International Law , 26:4 (October 1932), 671. ↩ W.B. Williston to G. Robertson, Cochrane, …
  • F.C. Crosman
    … F.C. Crosman …
  • General WC Langfitt
    … General WC Langfitt …
  • Jean V.K. Gerrard Campbell
    … Jean V.K. Gerrard Campbell …
  • Annual Reports and Quarterly Financial Reports
    … Report 2010 - 2011 Quarterly Financial Reports Third quarter 2025-2026 Financial Report Second quarter 2025-2026 Financial Report First quarter 2025-2026 Financial Report Archived Quarterly Financial Reports Third quarter …
  • Fredrich Kuhn and Family
    … Fredrich Kuhn and Family …
  • Resettling Child Refugees: Canada and Armenian Orphans, 1923-1927
    … Canadian immigration policy, they are treated as adult refugees. Accompanied by a lawyer, social worker, or trusted community member, … McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005), 161-163. Apramian, 25-26; AGCCC, "Georgetown Boys." Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill, "Armenians" … (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999), 218. Apramian, 25-26. Apramian, xxxvi, 73-77; AGCCC, "Georgetown Boys." Apramian, 73-77; …
  • Cornelis Verwolf
    … Single Men and Women February 26, 1950 – Beaverbrae I have been asked numerous times why I left home and came to Canada. When I was 9 years old the war started in the low lands … soldiers encountered in Holland took them longer. Freedom did not come to our town until May 10, 1945. WHAT A DAY! The Canadian soldiers …

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