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  • Canada’s Refugee Determination System
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated August 21, 2020) Origins of Canada’s Refugee Determination System The origins of Canada’s refugee determination system can be traced back to 1922, when the League of Nations (a predecessor … Canada’s Refugee Determination System …
  • “The Immigration Act a weapon”: Panama Maru and the Exclusion of Immigrants, 1913
    … passengers were promptly landed, and another seven followed after a day, based on their having established domicile in Canada before. [1] …
  • 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 …
  • Janos Maté
    … So it was for our Mid-European Jewish family in nineteenth and twentieth century Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The lives of our parents … the Czechoslovak Republic, whose birthday happened be on the very same day. Following the Munich Pact between British Prime Minister Neville …
  • Movement of War Brides and Their Children through Pier 21
    … refugee crisis, it focused its attention on the resettlement of soldiers’ dependents. The resettlement of war brides and their children … be permitted to enter Canada. The problems were divided into four points: a) finding satisfactory accommodation upon their arrival; b) … Appeal Decisions: Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) v. Taylor [2007 FCA 349],” Federal Court of Appeal , …
  • This is Home Now by Asha
    … my mom was not accepting of girls joining teams. My mom’s thought of coming to Canada was to leave the violence in Somalia for a safer place … game she complimented on how well I did. This time she listened to my points. She agreed that I could play as long as it does not get in between my studies. My mom was able to witness me fulfill that promise during my …
  • Journey of Wawel Treasures to Canada
    … for safekeeping. Travelling by peasant’s carts, by trucks and by commandeered barge through the war-torn countryside of Poland, the … staff elected to remove the treasures to France. Szczerbiec, the medieval Polish coronation sword. Credit: Consulate of the Republic of … and Stanislaw Zaleski throughout this odyssey, and, as Gordon Swager points out in his study, The Strange Odyssey of Poland’s National …
  • Ugandan Asians, 1972 to Now
    … Base Longue-Pointe. Mario DeMello and Daxa Popat then travelled to Nova Scotia, while John Halani chose British Columbia, where Lella … born in Kamuli, Uganda. Daxa and her family settled in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, where Daxa’s father worked in the new Michelin tire plant. Daxa attended the Nova Scotia Community College for book-keeping and secretarial …
  • Delicious and jam-packed with history
    … Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter.   Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, … open up the patty and see what’s inside. Colonization and Hand-Pies Jamaica, home to the Indigenous Taíno people, was colonized first by …