• The Pier Goes To War: Halifax’s Pier 21 and the Second World War
    … during the Depression. [4] Until significant movements of soldier dependents began in 1944, the majority of immigrants were citizens … in events at the Embarkation Unit or aboard ship. [23] At other points, bands played to bid farewell or welcome personnel home. [24] … we’d get the most coins by pushing the others out of the way.” [26] The return for many Canadian service personnel was more sombre: the …
  • Dad's Story
    … Stories in Dutch 15 April 1953, na twee uuur slapen werden wij weer op geropen om de groten overtocht te aan vaarden. Just en … Beurskens uit Baarlo (cousin) Met een hartelijk vaart verdween de dierbaar Neersche bodem onder onze voeten. Vroolijke steming heerste er … een beetje verzachten. Hoe wel zulk een levens stap reeds jaren te viren is opgezet en voor bereid dan toch nog is ‘t scheiden en zoo als …
  • 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 … on similar attitudes in the United States . Historian Patricia Roy, in pointing out the transnational nature of the Asiatic Exclusion League …
  • The Colour Bar at the Canadian Border: Black American Farmers
    … considered that they are a class of colonists who will be likely to do well in our country.” - Canadian Superintendent of Immigration W.D. … of the key factors in the exclusion of Black Americans was Canadian domestic pressure. Many Canadian civic organizations wrote to … to be just and accord to all people a justice for their virtues. I do not impeach [African Americans] with any lack of industrious habit …
  • “The existing Immigration regulations will not offer any solution”: MS St. Louis in Canadian Context
    … journey, money, and passport requirements. Historian Gerald Tulchinsky points out the barrier any single one of these measures might present … the careful support of F.C. Blair at the immigration branch. [26] He also drew funding from a European benefactor, who arranged a … of the passengers were murdered in the Holocaust; one passenger also died in later German air attacks on Britain. [58] Historian Adara …
  • Hooks for History: Using a Building Model to Introduce Complex Pasts
    … – even things as tiny and offbeat as the addition of miniature trash cans – that would add opportunities for richer interpretation based on the model. Trash Cans and Baggage Adding waste bins to the model might seem something of …
  • Privacy Policy
    … servers automatically collect certain information about a visit to a website, including the visitor’s Internet Protocol (IP) address. IP …
  • Starting Points: Researching Canadian Immigration and Ethnic History
    … post will give you an overview of the field and suggest some starting points to help get your research underway. Early Scholarship: … and ethnic communities began to spark greater interest. In part due to the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Biculturalism and Bilingualism, the introduction of the points system in 1967, and an official multiculturalism policy in 1971, …
  • Points of Departure: Indigenous military service, Trooper Jesse Moses, and Pier 21
    … History Departures During parts of its history, Pier 21 was as much a point of departure as it was a destination . As a member of the … Jesse’s wartime service on the occasion of Remembrance Week 2022. My point in so doing is to encourage readers to consider Indigenous … this sense to begin viewing Pier 21, at least symbolically, as much a point of departure for a discussion of Indigenous military service as …
  • Who Is Admissible? Immigrant Desirability and Immigration Acts since Confederation
    … Policy Officially known as Order-in-Council P.C. 1967-1616 , the “points system” implemented new standards for the evaluation of … Canada / C-009798 Government of Canada (hereafter GOC), Justice Laws Website, “VI. Distribution of Legislative Powers,” accessed 23 April … Legislation;” Kelley and Trebilcock, Making of the Mosaic , 314, 324-326; Freda Hawkins, Canada and Immigration: Public Policy and Public …