• Historic Pier 21
    … 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 …
  • 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 … The Action Test of 1920: Literacy and Selection in Canadian Immigration …
  • Migration, Work, Uber Driving: Continuity and Rupture
    … and reflections of people from Pakistan, India, and Syria who have come to Canada as refugees, migrants, or immigrants, and have … theme relating to Uber driving through the sub-themes of immediate income generation, working conditions, and cultural exchange and skills … narratives that credit state policies alone for migration outcomes. [4] The early twentieth century saw over 5,000 South Asians, …
  • The Colour Bar at the Canadian Border: Black American Farmers
    … will interest you or not but I may state that a number of coloured people have been going from your district lately to Western Canada, and it … by Canadian immigration authorities against African-Americans was passive but deliberate: they refused to respond to Black people … invoked every available tool to obstruct Black immigration to Canada. Credit: Library and Archives Canada RG 76 Volume 192 File 72552 Part 2 …
  • 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 … – even things as tiny and offbeat as the addition of miniature trash cans – that would add opportunities for richer interpretation based on …
  • Port of Precedence: A History of Immigration at the Port of Quebec Part 1
    … , 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 … and modes of transportation . This report argues that within Quebec City, one site was shaped by all three aforementioned areas: the Port …
  • 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 … for some time. After restrictive amendments to the Immigration Act passed in 1919, Secretary of Immigration F.C. Blair asked the Minister … Wood for Cookhouse”. Relief work, Whitemouth Manitoba, August 1934. Credit: Library and Archives Canada, PA-034947 This tolerant approach …
  • Resettling Child Refugees: Canada and Armenian Orphans, 1923-1927
    … and provide testimony to a federal immigration official that he or she is a minor. Otherwise, within Canadian immigration policy, they are …
  • F.C. Crosman
    … F.C. Crosman …
  • “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 … indifferent to the suffering of Jews long before the St. Louis ever set sail for Halifax, and sadly, long after it had returned to …