• Luigi, Emilia Evangelista and
    Luigi, Emilia Evangelista and …
  • Nicola Assunta and
    Nicola Assunta and …
  • Ribelle and
    Alumni Type: Immigrants Country of Origin: Italy Port of Entry: Pier 21, Halifax Date of Arrival: 1959 … Ribelle and …
  • Sabatino, Anna and
    Country of Origin: Italy Ship Name: Vulcania Port of Entry: Pier 21 Date of Arrival: Feb 23, 1956 … Sabatino, Anna and …
  • Vaclav Bill Majovsky
    Country of Origin: Czechoslovakia Ship Name: Goya Port of Entry: Pier 21, Halifax Date of Arrival: March 9, 1951 … Vaclav Bill Majovsky …
  • Immigration Act Amendment, 1919
    The government introduced new restrictive immigration regulations in 1919 in response to the social and economic turmoil of the immediate postwar period. Following the First World War, the Canadian economy fell into a recession, unemployment steadily increased and the Russian Bolshevik Revolution …
  • Empire Settlement Act, 1922
    The Empire Settlement Act of 1922 was an agreement between the British government and several commonwealth countries designed to facilitate the resettlement of agriculturalists, farm labourers, domestics and juvenile immigrants throughout the Empire. In Canada, several different settlement schemes …
  • Chinese Immigration Act, 1923
    The Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 was passed by the government of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in response to continued demands for more prohibitive regulations to limit Chinese immigration. Commonly referred to as the “Chinese Exclusion Act,” the legislation virtually restricted …
  • Railway Agreement, 1925
    In September 1925, the Canadian government formalized an agreement with the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and the Canadian National Railway (CNR) allowing the railway companies to control the recruitment and settlement of European agriculturalists. The agreement was part of the government’s …
  • Order-in- Council PC 1931-695, 1931
    Includes: Order-in-Council PC 1923-183 (31 January 1923), Order-in-Council PC 1930-1957 (14 August 1930) With the passage of Order-in-Council PC 695 on 21 March 1931, the government of Prime Minister R.B. Bennett implemented the tightest immigration admissions policy in Canadian history. [1] …