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    … October 31 Open: Seven days a week, 9:30 am to 5:30 pm From November 26, 2025, to April 15, 2026, you can buy your tickets at the Boutique. The Museum elevator will be …
  • 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 …
  • My Immigration Journey
    … here at the museum is “what made you leave your home and decide to come to Canada?” Some respond that it is for new opportunities, to … told my family that I would be leaving home. My mother looked at me - she was in tears. “Do you know where Canada is? How long do you think … it will take you to come back home?” I replied, “I know it is very far but I will come back to visit at least once year “(I was wrong). On …
  • Cornelis Verwolf
    … Single Men and Women February 26, 1950 – Beaverbrae I have been asked numerous times why I left home … 18 and 45 years of age to send to the labour camps in Germany. Also gold, silver, art, paintings, bicycles, horses, food and anything of … soldiers encountered in Holland took them longer. Freedom did not come to our town until May 10, 1945. WHAT A DAY! The Canadian soldiers …
  • Resettling Child Refugees: Canada and Armenian Orphans, 1923-1927
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 20, 2020) Introduction For centuries, child orphans have sought permanent resettlement in … and provide testimony to a federal immigration official that he or she is a minor. Otherwise, within Canadian immigration policy, they are …
  • Deportation from Canada during the Great Depression
    … – are much more strict in their requirements today in permitting a foreigner to enter their boundaries for permanent settlement.” – Harold … In the 1930s, Canadians experienced a profound economic recession complicated by drought and the collapse of trade: the Great Depression. … entered Canada per year , an enormous drop from an average of about 126,000 per year during the 1920s. [4] Clifford Sifton, one of the …
  • Corey Verwolf
    … 18 and 45 years of age to send to the labour camps in Germany. Also gold, silver, art, paintings, bicycles, horses, food and anything of … soldiers encountered in Holland took them longer. Freedom did not come to our town until May 10, 1945. WHAT A DAY! The Canadian soldiers … have had a good life, and made a good living in Holland. My sisters visit Canada on a regular basis, but my brothers who can well afford …
  • Refugee: a Hero or Zero? by Sharmarke
    … Time 0:03:43 Transcript May 2012 was when I heard the news. I had to wrap up my last 10 years in 10 days. I was going moving … as Kenya was overwhelmed by so many refugees. We stayed on the boat for weeks until they finally let us in. As a young boy living a refugee … soccer ball from socks and newspapers. I remember that I had to save coins and beg the bigger boys in the camp to take me to the cinema to …
  • Middlemore Shillings
    … and find myself writing in the hopes that someone out there can help us with a question. Patricia wrote to me back in 2011 while … During our correspondence I mentioned that a visitor had let me scan what they called “a Middlemore shilling”. When Patricia learned this, she wrote, “All members of one Middlemore party each received a new …
  • “The Immigration Act a weapon”: Panama Maru and the Exclusion of Immigrants, 1913
    … 17 October 1913, Panama Maru arrived at Victoria, British Columbia . The ship was a regularly-scheduled passenger liner of the Osaka Soshen … 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: … “The Immigration Act a weapon”: Panama Maru and the Exclusion of …

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