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  • Deportation from Canada during the Great Depression
    … by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated July 20, 2021) “There is no … In the 1930s, Canadians experienced a profound economic recession complicated by drought and the collapse of trade: the Great Depression. … entered Canada per year , an enormous drop from an average of about 126,000 per year during the 1920s. [4] Clifford Sifton, one of the …
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  • Chilean Exiles, 1973 to Now
    … and social organisations including unions, student groups, and community associations. [3] Some Chilean exiles came to Canada fleeing … University of Chile, April 16, 2018, https://uchile.cl/noticias/142609/fallecio-alejandro-rojas-ex-presidente-de-la-fech ↩ Dora Ashton … imprisoned by the Pinochet regime. CIEN VOCES ROMPEN EL SILENCIO | Servicio Nacional del Patrimonio Cultural ↩ Peddle, Young, …
  • “The Immigration Act a weapon”: Panama Maru and the Exclusion of Immigrants, 1913
    … by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) On 17 … passenger’s appeals. Orders-in-Council 920 (continuous journey) and 926 (Asiatic immigrant money requirement) were part of a broad … the continuous journey regulation, the requirement was that immigrants come either by direct route or by through ticket from their country of …
  • Order-in-Council PC 1911-1324
    … In early twentieth-century Canada, there was widespread domestic pressure to … fare for train travel, rather than the reduced settler rate. [4] The Commissioner of Immigration for Western Canada bribed a medical … in British Guiana who was living in the United States and wished to come to Canada. [6] Racist attitudes about Black settlement in the …
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  • Audrey Pratt
    … 13 each. Coupons were used up quickly so new clothes were difficult to come by. Fabric and yarn for knitting were also rationed. Husband: … since discovered that it is quite good. Many other Canadian foods have come my way over the years, but I have not mastered a taste for … enjoyed other trips through the years with her family. Did your family come to Canada to visit? In 1948 Audrey's mother sent her sister Olive …
  • Journey of Wawel Treasures to Canada
    … by Steven Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) The Royal … for safekeeping. Travelling by peasant’s carts, by trucks and by commandeered barge through the war-torn countryside of Poland, the … of the war : the priceless Polish treasures were traveling in the company of one of the early groups of British children evacuated from …
  • Would You Pass The Test?
    … had the pleasure of attending quite a few citizenship ceremonies in my life. If you have not been to one, I suggest you look into it. The excitement, … are precious in museums. It is in this moment that they realise that becoming a citizen is not easy. That would-be-citizens are expected to … Would You Pass The Test? …

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