• “The existing Immigration regulations will not offer any solution”: MS St. Louis in Canadian Context
    … anti-Semitism . Despite some successful cooperation between community organizations and immigration authorities to admit and settle … the careful support of F.C. Blair at the immigration branch. [26] He also drew funding from a European benefactor, who arranged a … Vincent Massey wrote that Canada ought to be generous in accepting “Aryan Sudeten Germans” so as to avoid accepting non-Aryan refugees later. …
  • Candida Franca Iaccino
    … RACCONTO DI VITA: CANDIDA FRANCA IACCINO (dedico questa mia storia ai miei figli e nipoti) Era un mio desiderio ritornare al …
  • Canadian Immigration Facilities at Victoria, BC
    … July 21, 2021) “Conditions are so much different out here from what you have in the East” Immigration Facilities at Victoria, British … stating to his superior in the medical service, Bryce, that “you will notice again the necessity of having sheds or places to keep … stating that “conditions are so much different out here from what you have in the East that it requires numerous contingencies to arrive …
  • 1999: Canada’s Resettlement and Repatriation of Kosovar Refugees
    … Due to this large movement of people, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) appealed to the international … had a warm feeling and happiness, I felt like a child again.” [21] On 26 May, the last evacuation flight arrived in Canada. Over 90 percent … Canadian Forces Logistics Association , 2019, https://www.cfla-alfc.org/stories/op-parasol/; Canadian Armed Forces and Kelsey Berg, …
  • The Colour Bar at the Canadian Border: Black American Farmers
    … (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 …
  • Eminently Suitable for Our Purposes: Official Commemoration of Immigrant Arrivals in Canada, 1949-1972
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 26, 2020) Introduction During the early postwar period, Canadian … “Canada’s 50,000th DP Starts New Life in New Home,” Globe and Mail , 26 February 1949, 17. Oral History with Ausma Levalds Rowberry, … and Mail , 12 January 1954, 15. “Missing Millionth,” Globe and Mail , 26 May 1954, 6. “Missing Millionth.” Badgley, “As Long as He is an …
  • Movement of War Brides and Their Children through Pier 21
    … to Canada of bona fide agriculturalists who had sufficient means to commence farming in Canada. However, immigration remained prohibitive … them to Pier 21 in Halifax where they were processed as immigrants. [26] Mrs. J.W. Perry, a war bride, and her daughter Sheila aboard SS … Appeal Decisions: Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) v. Taylor [2007 FCA 349],” Federal Court of Appeal , …
  • Cornelis Verwolf
    … Single Men and Women February 26, 1950 – Beaverbrae I have been asked numerous times why I left home … When I was 9 years 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 … in all directions. An hour later I was standing in the yard with my father and others, paratroopers were jumping out of planes. Two …
  • Corey Verwolf
    … asked numerous times why I left home and came to Canada. When I was 9 years 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 … in all directions. An hour later I was standing in the yard with my father and others, paratroopers were jumping out of planes. Two …
  • 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, … . Jack Apramian, The Georgetown Boys (Zoryan Institute of Canada, 2009), 73-77; Armenian Genocide Centennial … McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005), 161-163. Apramian, 25-26; AGCCC, "Georgetown Boys." Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill, "Armenians" …