• Jean V.K. Gerrard Campbell
    … Jean V.K. Gerrard Campbell …
  • The Pier Goes To War: Halifax’s Pier 21 and the Second World War
    … during the Depression. [4] Until significant movements of soldier dependents began in 1944, the majority of immigrants were citizens … in events at the Embarkation Unit or aboard ship. [23] At other points, bands played to bid farewell or welcome personnel home. [24] … we’d get the most coins by pushing the others out of the way.” [26] The return for many Canadian service personnel was more sombre: the …
  • Heterosexism in Canadian Immigration Policy, 1952-1978
    … tolerated.” [3] These deviations were also understood to be potential points of vulnerability for citizens. Exposure as a homosexual, for … Fortier entitled “A Review of Immigration from the British West Indies.” The memo states that “it has long been the policy of this … consensual acts with another adult, leaving him with a life sentence. [26] Following the White Paper and the Criminal Code update, a 1970 …
  • Cornelis Verwolf
    … Single Men and Women February 26, 1950 – Beaverbrae I have been asked numerous times why I left home … and others, paratroopers were jumping out of planes. Two planes were shot down before 8:00 a.m. and landed in a neighbour’s field. It was … soldiers encountered in Holland took them longer. Freedom did not come to our town until May 10, 1945. WHAT A DAY! The Canadian soldiers …
  • “The Immigration Act a weapon”: Panama Maru and the Exclusion of Immigrants, 1913
    … passengers were promptly landed, and another seven followed after a day, based on their having established domicile in Canada before. [1] … on the boat? Mr Singh (A): A man at Hong Kong told me to say what I said on the boat. Q: Is what you said on the boat true? A: The man at Hong King said to me ‘You say just …
  • What Would You Do? Admit, Detain, or Deny Entry to Irregular Refugees on Canada’s East Coast
    … a new exhibition on the history of the Pier 21 National Historic Site of Canada and the history of immigration to Canada. This is based … precedents, and public opinion. As a result, an individual’s desire to come to Canada is only one of many factors that determine immigration. … Canadian immigration policy and local official discretion at Canadian points of entry? Canadian immigration officials consider many factors …
  • Resettling Child Refugees: Canada and Armenian Orphans, 1923-1927
    … Canadian immigration policy, they are treated as adult refugees. Accompanied by a lawyer, social worker, or trusted community member, … the Armenian Relief Fund in Canada, Sir Henry Pellatt, a Canadian soldier and financier, and the Governor-General, His Excellency, Lord … McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005), 161-163. Apramian, 25-26; AGCCC, "Georgetown Boys." Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill, "Armenians" …
  • Deportation from Canada during the Great Depression
    … 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 … Throughout The World”, The American Journal of International Law , 26:4 (October 1932), 671. ↩ W.B. Williston to G. Robertson, Cochrane, …
  • L.A.W. M. Catherine Cannon
    … At the age of sixteen the spirit of adventure overtook him and he set sail for Canada where his eldest brother George, ten years his senior, was homesteading near Kindersley, Saskatchewan. At one point Dad worked as a farm hand just south of Saskatoon; at another he worked for James S. LaLonde of …
  • Audrey Pratt
    … underground in the back of the garden, covering the top with earth and sod for further protection. There were steps down so they could enter … but a direct hit. The Smith's shelter was later converted to be a coal shed. The Smiths watched the bombing of Portsmouth and Southampton. … 13 each. Coupons were used up quickly so new clothes were difficult to come by. Fabric and yarn for knitting were also rationed. Husband: …