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  • Pietro Di Ioia
    … Told by his daughter: Maria Teresa Di Ioia PART ONE Reasons for immigrating to Canada: To look for work in … 21 Ship: Vulcania - Third class PART TWO Personal profile of my father and my family In post-World War II, it was extremely difficult to make a living. My father had five … Pietro Di Ioia …
  • 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 …
  • Who Is Admissible? Immigrant Desirability and Immigration Acts since Confederation
    … opened new exhibitions on the history of the Pier 21 National Historic Site of Canada and the history of immigration to Canada. This blog is … / C-009798 Government of Canada (hereafter GOC), Justice Laws Website, “VI. Distribution of Legislative Powers,” accessed 23 April 2014, …
  • “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 …
  • Language as a Pull Factor for Newcomers to Francophone Minority Communities
    by Siniša Obradovic, Oral History Researcher The Oral History Collection and Interviews in French The Oral History team at the Canadian Museum of Immigration conducts recorded interviews across the country in order to learn about immigration through first-hand accounts. We seek to represent the …
  • Annual Public Meeting 2020
    … the countless journeys that immigrants made and continue to make to come to Canada. It may have reminded you of your own family’s story. On … person last year, while over 489,000 unique visitors spent time on our website learning about our programs, stories and collections. I am also … the rest of the Museum community, to re-examine how we reach our audience at home (and from home) during a time when they are unable to …
  • The Colour Bar at the Canadian Border: Black American Farmers
    by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated July 20, 2021) “I am not sure whether it 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 is not considered that they are a class of colonists who will be likely to …
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    … servers automatically collect certain information about a visit to a website, including the visitor’s Internet Protocol (IP) address. IP … 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. …
  • Wolfgang Paul Loofs
    … years of World War Two, Nazi-Germany's defeat and disintegration, American and Soviet occupation, and flight to the West. Like all German … (based on mini-diary and memory) Sun 4 Nov 1951: Hopefully the last day at this crowded (8,000 people!) refugee camp where I don't know a … not allowed visitors, and where all you can do is wait and write your good-bye letters: Mon 5 Nov 1951: Excitement: My name had appeared …
  • Recruiting Domestic Workers and Live-In Caregivers in Canada
    … Jan Raska, PhD, Historian Introduction Over the last several decades, Canada has become increasingly dependent on foreign workers to meet its … evident in the agricultural, service, and homecare industries. [1] The Canadian government regulates all temporary foreign worker programs. … there are two major temporary foreign worker labour programs in Canada. One is the International Mobility Program (IMP) which covers a …

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