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- In early twentieth-century Canada, there was widespread domestic pressure to ban Black immigration, although the number of Black immigrants seeking entry to Canada was quite small. [1] Immigration agents participated in the alarmist exclusion by creating many obstacles for immigrants of African …
- The Naturalization Act of 1914 introduced more stringent requirements for naturalization in Canada. Prior to 1914, the process of naturalization was relatively straightforward. After three years of living in Canada, an immigrant could bring an application before a court official and receive a …
- by Carrie-Ann Smith, Vice President, Audience Engagement The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is a story museum. We collect and share the personal narratives of immigrants to Canada. We catalogue, contextualize, and curate. We may turn up the volume, but the voices are authentic. Telling …
- Experience with Racism and Discrimination Time 0:02:47 Transcript As an immigrant that emigrated from one country to another, from one country to another, you are expecting challenges. You expected the worse and I was prepared for that. But the one thing that I was not prepared them was for is …
- Misconceptions about Winnipeg and Manitoba Time 0:02:43 Transcript I’m a bit of a nerd so I started to research Winnipeg—I thought I was moving to Winnipeg, let me note, my parents did not clarify that I was moving to Steinbach. (laughs) For some time they kept referring to it as Winnipeg, …
- Yogurt Day and Gathering Furniture Time 0:01:42 Transcript OA: Oh we didn’t have anything, it was an empty apartment. No spoons no plates, nothing. So we bought first our thing was in Walmart we bought spoons and plates, plates, and the only thing that I could recognize was yogurt (laughs), you …
- Advice to Potential Immigrants Time 0:01:51 Transcript I think—I think the first thing is you’re open-minded, okay. Uh you have to look at Canada do welcome you, okay. You have to come, again, not thinking what you had, what you going to have: always think what you going to have, not what you …
- First Job in Canada Time 0:01:49 Transcript And it was—I was so extremely happy because this happen in November and I knew I was going to have money for my children for Christmas. That was the first thing that came to my mind. “Oh, I will have money for my kids, the Christmas for my children.” So I …
- Getting Her First Job at the Grocery Store Time 0:02:48 Transcript (Translated from French) When I arrived at the supermarket, I saw a “cashiers wanted” sign and thought, “hmm, why not give it a shot, for my first job here,” because we had read a French woman’s blog saying how she also immigrated …