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The Immigration Act of 1910 further enhanced the discretionary powers of government to regulate the flow of immigrants into Canada, reinforcing and expanding the exclusionary provisions outlined in the Immigration Act of 1906. Under the new act, the list of prohibited immigrants expanded and the …
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… In 1952, the government of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent passed the first new immigration act since 1910. The …
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… When the Canadian economy began to show signs of improvement in the 1920s, the federal government renewed its efforts to attract British …
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… the imposition of more stringent regulations. Immigration was becoming increasingly diverse at the beginning of the twentieth century … as well as the destitute, impoverished and anyone likely to become a public charge. Other inadmissible immigrants included those … any class of immigrants whenever it was considered necessary or expedient. The governor-in-council could also impose conditions requiring …
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… the Russian Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 generated widespread fear of communism and suspicion of enemy alien immigrants. The Winnipeg General … accused of engaging in anti-government activity and those that had become public charges. [4] Further amendments authorized the … of holding property and because of their probable inability to become readily assimilated.” This revision was used to bar Doukhobors, …
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… Orland Ross Down passed through Pier 21 four times between 1941 and 1945. He was an eighteen year old young man from Charlottetown who joined the RCAF in 1940, trained in Canada as a wireless-operator/air-gunner and left for overseas from … next posting was to Comox, B.C. to train for transport Command on DC 3s and then it was back to Halifax to board the "Mauretania" which took …
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… uncertain to find people true to their word. Finding it was not my cup of tea, I came back to my job as a teacher, still yearning for … job and I was on my way to teach at Duncan Macmillan High School in Sheet Harbour. We were six teachers staying at Lind Haven Hotel for $21 …
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… labour. At Linz the family were spilt up into 3 different camps, each assigned different jobs. The family were allowed visitation time, but … live together. Everything changed on May 8 th 1945, World War II had come to an end in Europe. A cease fire order was in place, and the … Germany and sailed off to a new country. Pier 21 in Halifax welcomed Canada’s newest citizens on June 23rd 1948, the Ivan Zadan …
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… by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) Canadian immigration history can be researched using a staggering … whose career with the Canadian immigration department spanned from the 1930s to the 1960s, at posts all over central and eastern Canada. Regional Directors …
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… Public Relations Society (Toronto) Inc. 1961-62. President Toronto Press Club 1981-82. President Canadian Ethnic Journalists' and Writers' …