• “The existing Immigration regulations will not offer any solution”: MS St. Louis in Canadian Context
    … the St. Louis ever set sail for Halifax, and sadly, long after it had returned to Europe…These refugees would have made this country … problems. [8] The late nineteenth-century movement of Jews to Canada had some powerful initial proponents, notably receiving endorsements … barrier any single one of these measures might present to a person who had fled their home country for sanctuary elsewhere, including Jews …
  • 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 … on the structure of the test, undesirable immigrants could be failed, while desirable immigrants were passed by changing the text or language … Major Hume Cronyn, the Unionist Member of Parliament for London, while arguing for these measures to control entry, asked a group of …
  • Children of the Pier: Adolescent Experiences of Arrival and Process
    … 21’s site history is the immigration experience of children. Young newcomers are frequently mentioned in relation to the immigration process … ask questions about the war and life in Britain. Beal eventually got off the train and started a new life in Winnipeg. “Tears running down … opportunity to continue their lives in Canada. Search our collections online: /search-our-online-collections Share your story with us: …
  • Hooks for History: Using a Building Model to Introduce Complex Pasts
    … to suggest artistic touches – even things as tiny and offbeat as the addition of miniature trash cans – that would add opportunities for richer interpretation based on …
  • Cornelis Verwolf
    … Single Men and Women February 26, 1950 – Beaverbrae I have been asked numerous times why I left home … old the war started in the low lands (Holland) on May 10, 1940. At about 4:30 a.m. there was a lot of banging, airplanes flying in all directions. …
  • F.C. Crosman
    … F.C. Crosman …
  • “The Immigration Act a weapon”: Panama Maru and the Exclusion of Immigrants, 1913
    … from Canada in the early twentieth century, including the more well-known refusal of passengers from Komagata Maru the following year. … Although these detained passengers claimed to be returning to Canada while aboard Panama Maru , none were, and all but one recanted their … Officer on the boat? Mr Singh (A): A man at Hong Kong told me to say what I said on the boat. Q: Is what you said on the boat true? A: …
  • General WC Langfitt
    … General WC Langfitt …
  • Corey Verwolf
    … old the war started in the low lands (Holland) on May 10, 1940. At about 4:30 a.m. there was a lot of banging, air planes flying in all … down before 8:00 a.m. and landed in a neighbour's field. It was not a good scene. When we were there, small stones were flying past us. We …
  • Jean V.K. Gerrard Campbell
    … where Jean was working as part of the war effort. Prior to this she had worked on the London buses, but because she found the shift work … hard, she moved to the munitions factory. Bill and Jean dated for a while. During this time Bill was sent on war schemes around various … Bill spent time in Belgium, France, Walcheren Island and Holland, and had advanced to Oldenburg, Germany when the war was finally declared …