• Eminently Suitable for Our Purposes: Official Commemoration of Immigrant Arrivals in Canada, 1949-1972
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 26, 2020) Introduction During the early postwar period, Canadian … “Canada’s 50,000th DP Starts New Life in New Home,” Globe and Mail , 26 February 1949, 17. Oral History with Ausma Levalds Rowberry, … and Mail , 12 January 1954, 15. “Missing Millionth,” Globe and Mail , 26 May 1954, 6. “Missing Millionth.” Badgley, “As Long as He is an …
  • Canada’s Refugee Determination System
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated August 21, 2020) Origins of Canada’s Refugee Determination System The origins of Canada’s refugee determination system can be traced back to 1922, when the League of Nations (a predecessor … Canada’s Refugee Determination System …
  • 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, …
  • Medical Facilities at Pier 21
    … documents in most cases.” [9] However, the post-war expansion of points of origin for immigrants to Canada outstripped overseas medical … fever, polio, bronchitis, typhoid, tuberculosis, and appendicitis. [26] Another staff member, Alison Trapnell, recalls patients with mental … led to tragedy: for example, a Polish girl, Stefania Piasta, aged 5, died of measles in the immigration hospital on 23 March 1937. [29] She …
  • Canadian Immigration Facilities at Victoria, BC
    … Permanent Immigration Building The doctor/agents Milne and McAlpin embodied the strong interweaving of civil and medical authorities around … [22] On the other hand, McAlpin’s letter to Bryce of 23 January 1905 points to a belief in a disjuncture between federal policy and local … set the purchase of proposed land in motion in early November 1906. [26] The Department of Public Works set the allocation for immigration …
  • Cescato Aldo, Renato
    … 1948 there was a little work in cities like Treviso and Mestre rebuilding all that had been destroyed by the bombarding during the war. At that point young men began preparing their suitcases to leave for work as … gave each of us an advance of $18.10 and told us to buy some food for the train trip. That evening we boarded the train for the 2 …
  • 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" …
  • My Immigration Journey
    … of my favorite questions to ask visitors here at the museum is “what made you leave your home and decide to come to Canada?” Some respond that it is for new opportunities, to improve …
  • Cooking Nepalese Food in Charlottetown
    … Cooking Nepalese Food in Charlottetown …
  • What is Canadian Food, Anyway?
    … What is Canadian Food, Anyway? …