• Deportation from Canada during the Great Depression
    … you remove from this place, the Russian and other European people, who have only been in this country for a short time, and particularly the … sending all their earnings back to Europe, should not be allowed to have the work on the Power and R.R. construction, while hundreds of … the people whom I report to the immigration authorities should never have been admitted” under the headline, “Many Undesirables Admitted to …
  • Patricia Norlander and son Stanley
    … I met my "husband to be," Albin Carl Norlander outside the YMCA in Sheffield whilst he was on a visit to relatives of an army buddy. Trying for a maturity I didn't yet … this time we exchange many airmail letters and he sent me the money to buy an engagement ring. Early in April of 1945, without warning, he …
  • Corey Verwolf
    … A VOYAGE TO A NEW LAND I have been asked numerous times why I left home and came to Canada. When … 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 …
  • “The Immigration Act a weapon”: Panama Maru and the Exclusion of Immigrants, 1913
    by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) On 17 October 1913, Panama Maru arrived at Victoria, British Columbia . The ship was a regularly-scheduled passenger liner of the Osaka Soshen Kaisha Line, carrying 56 passengers identified by immigration authorities as “Hindus,” although …
  • 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 … from the Lord Mayor of Birmingham but I would not expect anyone would have kept it.” I replied, dramatically, “You are going to kill me, what …
  • My Missing Home by Jia
    Time 0:03:06 Transcript Even though I've been in St. John's for more than a year, I'm still missing my home in China. I now can be called a CFA which is come from away. Spring Festival is coming. Chinese people usually get together with their families. When I was small, I would wait until a certain …
  • Customs and Traditions: Holiday Edition!
    … In the Canadian Immigration Hall, we have a great interactive element where we … this activity is to get people to think about where these traditions come from and the intangible culture that immigrants bring with them …
  • Port of Precedence: A History of Immigration at the Port of Quebec Part 1
    by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 22, 2020) Introduction Before the arrival of Europeans, Algonquin and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) nations were the primary inhabitants along the St. Lawrence River (known in Mohawk as Kaniatarowanenneh , meaning “big waterway”) and the area later …
  • Canadian Immigration Facilities at Victoria, BC
    … 21, 2021) “Conditions are so much different out here from what you have in the East” Immigration Facilities at Victoria, British Columbia … Laurier ordered William Cory, deputy minister of the interior, to have McAlpin investigated. [18] Although McAlpin was largely exonerated … stating that “conditions are so much different out here from what you have in the East that it requires numerous contingencies to arrive …
  • Bombardier John Hamilton Glawson
    … John Hamilton Glawson 26 May 1923 – 2 August 2003 Member of Hartney Branch #26 & Brandon … Jack was the son of Hailey Glawson (1888 – 1932) who was born in Spry Bay, Nova Scotia and Christina Forbes (née Caldwell, 1892 –1982) who … (1921 – 1997), George (1925 – 1963), Chris (1929 – 1983) and sister Bette (born in 1931). During the depression, the family moved to a …