• 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 …
  • Starting Points: Researching Canadian Immigration and Ethnic History
    … post will give you an overview of the field and suggest some starting points to help get your research underway. Early Scholarship: … Commission on Biculturalism and Bilingualism, the introduction of the points system in 1967, and an official multiculturalism policy in 1971, … Starting Points: Researching Canadian Immigration and Ethnic History …
  • Conrad, Joanne Cats
    … was much crying as family and friends wished them well. The departure day arrived and Mother's family took us to the pier in Rotterdam … mothers and their sick children, with washing diapers and cleaning as best they could. It was 14 days at sea before arrival at Pier 21. She … to reach land again. At Pier 21 we were taken to a large hall where we sat until it was our turn for customs and a health check-up. Once that …
  • Charles J. Lutton
    … Port of Entry: Saint John, New Brunswick Date of Arrival: February 26, 1928 Age on Arrival: 24 CHARLES JOSEPH LUTTON/"C" COMPANY THE IRISH … – bright and warm. April 22, 1944 (S. ELIA FIUMERAPIDO / Map. 891266 Scale 1/50,000 Sheet 160 1) The Bn change over was completed by …
  • Early Political and Public Responses to Canada’s Official Multiculturalism Policy, 1971-1972
    … became a widely-used metaphor for cultural pluralism in modern Canada, the use of such terms to describe Canadian diversity can be traced back to the early interwar period. Against the backdrop … Early Political and Public Responses to Canada’s Official Multiculturalism Policy, 1971-1972 …
  • Points of Departure: Indigenous military service, Trooper Jesse Moses, and Pier 21
    … History Departures During parts of its history, Pier 21 was as much a point of departure as it was a destination . As a member of the … Jesse’s wartime service on the occasion of Remembrance Week 2022. My point in so doing is to encourage readers to consider Indigenous … this sense to begin viewing Pier 21, at least symbolically, as much a point of departure for a discussion of Indigenous military service as …
  • Pte. Charles Joseph Lutton
    … – bright and warm. April 22, 1944 (S. ELIA FIUMERAPIDO / Map. 891266 Scale 1/50,000 Sheet 160 1) The Bn change over was completed by … was able to look back down the RAPIDO RIVER valley from their vantage points on the high ground. It was like seeing a newsreel in Technicolor … Major Frank Southby, O.C.”D” Company was seriously wounded, since died of wounds. An 8 NBH tank picked him up through an escape hatch on …
  • Francesco Geraldo Sabbadin
    … birth? It all began in 1942 when my father and mother died within 15 days of each other. They left 7 of us. Four boys and three girls, the … this period in my life. We owe our life to two aunts on my father's side. They provided for us and kept us together as a family. This was … kids. We had no future, with the small farm and lack of jobs. At this point my aunt received a letter from a cousin in Northern Ontario, …