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… In-person event at the Museum Language: Presented in English Cost: FREE Register to attend this event → In partnership with the Emerging …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 22, 2020) Immigration through the Port of Quebec during the 1920s In the 1920s, the Port of Quebec’s primary function became grain export. However, the site continued to be a major point … into boxes around the roof garden so that detained immigrants had free access to exercise or relaxation. [3] These renovations were part …
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… by Daniel Meister, PhD Introduction The first part of this article traced the origins of the Barr Colony and its leaders. It demonstrated that the colony was … The Barr/Britannia Colony, Part II …
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by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated June 22, 2022) Introduction: Canadian Immigration before the Arrival of War Brides and Their Children From 1945 to 1947, Canada’s immigration controls remained restrictive. Although a majority of labour organizations opposed the liberalization of immigration …
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… 1971, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announced multiculturalism as an official government policy. Multiculturalism was intended to preserve … of the commission were adapted to become the government’s official policy of multiculturalism. In his speech to the House of Commons, Trudeau stated that no singular …
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… Heading for a Good Life in Canada By Carla White When Theodorus Jacobs (a.k.a. Theo) saw the vessel that would take him and his wife Maria to Canada on March 5, 1954, he thought to himself, … of the Second World War, Theo took a bookkeeping course during his free time in Indonesia and upon returning from Indonesia went to …
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… Edith Metcalfe Wallace, War Bride June 29, 1922 - Nov 29, 2010 My mother was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire on June 29, 1922, the third child … in 1942 in Newcastle on Tyne. She remembers nursing German POWs - one in particular was very young and frightened, quite a sweet boy, she … so happened that my father, Earl Weston Wallace, along with several of his army buddies stationed at nearby Catterick Camp, joined the wedding …
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… Born: April 23, 1929 at Byker, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England C.O.R.B. 1824 In the late summer of 1939, my mother, … accepted. About half of the C.O.R.B. evacuees went abroad without any sort of consultation by their parents. After return to Newcastle … posters of countries to which we could be evacuated. The Canadian one of a Mountie on a black horse in a wheat field with the Rockies in …
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… being fought. But there I was, 21 years of age, and finally I had the chance to get my sea legs. It was just before Christmas, 1950, when my … were complete and I could leave Europe to start my new life in Canada. The United States, first choice for all of my fellow refugees, … no survivors! My friends all departed just before me, and feeling lonesome, I was really excited to finally board the train for …