• “The existing Immigration regulations will not offer any solution”: MS St. Louis in Canadian Context
    … structure at Confederation until the massive resettlement programs following the Second World War, Canadian immigration policy and … War. In this long history, the 1939 refusal of the Jewish refugee ship MS St. Louis often stands as a marker for the commemoration and … West around the turn of the twentieth century. [9] There were also many Jewish immigrants who came to the West and turned to business. As …
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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 … legislation on agriculture or immigration “is not repugnant to any Act of the Parliament of Canada,” provincial and federal regulation … not over admissions but over exclusions. Well before the passage of any literacy requirement by the federal government, the use of language …
  • The Colour Bar at the Canadian Border: Black American Farmers
    … twentieth century. Settlers from Oklahoma arriving in Canada in 1911 complained of disenfranchisement, theft of property, and refusal of … April 1911, File 72552 Pt 3. ↩ C.A. Speers to J.B. Walker, Winnipeg, 26 October 1910, File 72552 Pt 2, 4. ↩ C.A. Speers to J.B. Walker, Winnipeg, 26 October 1910, File 72552 Pt 2, 6. ↩ J.S. Crawford to F. Oliver, …
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  • 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, … child was to be maintained by ARAC with proper documentation for each visit; Compliance with all provincial laws pertaining to the education … McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005), 161-163. Apramian, 25-26; AGCCC, "Georgetown Boys." Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill, "Armenians" …
  • Cornelis Verwolf
    … Single Men and Women February 26, 1950 – Beaverbrae I have been asked numerous times why I left home … past us. We did not know what was happening. Mother came out of the house, calling loudly, "what's happened"? We checked and found that an …