• 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 …
  • 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 …
  • 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 … twentieth century. Settlers from Oklahoma arriving in Canada in 1911 complained of disenfranchisement, theft of property, and refusal of … invoked every available tool to obstruct Black immigration to Canada. Credit: Library and Archives Canada RG 76 Volume 192 File 72552 Part 2 …
  • Arie and Cornelia le Pair
    … Arie and Cornelia le Pair …
  • 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 …
  • 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 … In the 1930s, Canadians experienced a profound economic recession complicated by drought and the collapse of trade: the Great Depression. … 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 … indifferent to the suffering of Jews long before the St. Louis ever set sail for Halifax, and sadly, long after it had returned to …
  • Privacy Policy
    … ISP for example, it could be used to identify an individual using the site. For this reason, the Government of Canada considers the IP … Web server to reference during the same or subsequent visit to the website. Examples of digital markers are “cookies” or HTML5 web storage. … sessional or persistent digital markers on some portions of its website. During your on-line visit, your browser exchanges data with the …
  • 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 … of the office of the Supervisor of Juvenile Immigration and be visited by officials from the Department of Immigration and Colonization … in aid of the Armenian Refugees (Lord Mayor’s) Fund, 13 June 1917. Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1983-28-291 Armenian …