• Immigration Act, 1910
    Immigration Act, 1910 …
  • Order-in-Council PC 1911-1324
    Order-in-Council PC 1911-1324 …
  • A Good Life by Metta
    Time 0:03:42 Transcript There was nothing to do in Arnes so when I finished grade 11, I went to Winnipeg and I stayed with my best friend Mary Daniels family. Ruth, Mary’s mother, was a war bride and she took me round all over to find a job but nobody had any openings. When we were just about home …
  • Naturalization Act, 1914
    Naturalization Act, 1914 …
  • Immigration Act Amendment, 1919
    Immigration Act Amendment, 1919 …
  • Life in the Early Days at Vidivollum by Oli
    Time 0:04:39 Transcript I was born in a log house on the farm, back in the good old days in 1925 in the Minerva district near Gimli. When the Icelanders immigrated to Canada they were promised that this would be New Iceland. They could establish their own government, and keep their customs and …
  • Empire Settlement Act, 1922
    Empire Settlement Act, 1922 …
  • Chinese Immigration Act, 1923
    Chinese Immigration Act, 1923 …
  • What's in a Name? by Vi
    Time 0:03:25 Transcript With great grandparents Audni Magnusdottir and Erikur Bjarnason and Sigridur Thorbergsdottir and Thorleifur Jonsson and grandparents Bjorg Petursdottir and Sigurdur Bjarnason and Petrun Petursdottir and Kristjan Kristjansson, born in Iceland and coming to Canada… my parents …
  • Railway Agreement, 1925
    Railway Agreement, 1925 …