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  • 1968: Pier 21 and the Prague Spring Refugees
    … Czechoslovak leaders that if their reforms continued, they would come with grave consequences. Moscow demanded that the Communist Party … the 1960s Many of the Prague Spring refugees, who had applied to come to Canada at Canadian embassies across Europe, arrived by … horizon. There were ramblings in Moscow that the Soviets are ready to come to ‘help’ us to make sure that we follow the ‘right way’ of …
  • Jean Allison Bock
    … Diary Entries Friday, April 26 I left Sheffield at 9 am and was met in London by the Canadian Army … Scotland. We three became great friends. We also made friends with six Dutch girls and on Friday afternoon we all went out together. On … until bedtime. Monday, April 29 Monday morning we were awakened by a voice at the microphone saying,"6:30: time to rise and shine, come on …
  • Charles J. Lutton
    … Port of Entry: Saint John, New Brunswick Date of Arrival: February 26, 1928 Age on Arrival: 24 CHARLES JOSEPH LUTTON/"C" COMPANY THE IRISH … – bright and warm. April 22, 1944 (S. ELIA FIUMERAPIDO / Map. 891266 Scale 1/50,000 Sheet 160 1) The Bn change over was completed by …
  • Heterosexism in Canadian Immigration Policy, 1952-1978
    … research. I use “queer” occasionally as shorthand for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, very advisedly: I am reminded that many of my friends would … the immigration branch received and pursued intelligence on targeted visitors and immigrants from its own intelligence resources and from … consensual acts with another adult, leaving him with a life sentence. [26] Following the White Paper and the Criminal Code update, a 1970 …
  • Before and After 1923: Chinese Exclusion in Context
    … of Chinese descent born in Canada who had gone out of the country “for educational or other purposes.” All Chinese immigrants were … residents might be out of the country. This extension was held to be “for the peace, order, and welfare of Canada.” [21] The Chinese … restrictions , including the exclusion era, 1923-1947. Harper stated “For over six decades, these malicious measures, aimed solely at the …
  • Theodore and Maria Jacobs
    … Heading for a Good Life in Canada By Carla White When Theodorus Jacobs (a.k.a. Theo) saw the … his wife Maria to Canada on March 5, 1954, he thought to himself, “welcome home”. This wasn’t the first time Theo would set voyage from the … again, but he returned to the Netherlands many times over the years to visit. And every time, his mother would say, “This’ll be the last …
  • The Otto Froese Family
    … day at Pier 21. It was exactly 50 years to the day that we arrived in Canada. My husband and children totally surprised me by having my … her. By a miracle, she found us in Kublitz by Stolp, Pommem. I was sick, close to death with typhus. When she arrived, my mother and Herta …
  • Helena Lengacher
    … were now a country under occupation which we would endure for the next four years. As mayor and a very influential business man in the region, … heard soldiers approaching and then the cellar door swung open and a voice called down, in what I now know to be English, asking "is there … to my father, "do not say anything, it’s the German’s, they have come back to kill us!" Both my father and I laid motionless as a …
  • Entrenching Refugee Rights in Canada: The 1985 Singh Decision
    … refugee claimants had the possibility of appealing a negative outcome to their refugee claims. However, Canada’s refugee determination … the Canadian government rather than the claimant. The latter was not afforded the right to state their case before federal officials and to … Estey and Justice William McIntyre, based their ruling on Section 26 of the Charter and Section 2(e) of the Act for the Recognition and …
  • Elfriede Gruber and George Novotny
    … being fought. But there I was, 21 years of age, and finally I had the chance to get my sea legs. It was just before Christmas, 1950, when my … were complete and I could leave Europe to start my new life in Canada. The United States, first choice for all of my fellow refugees, … the next watery mountain, getting totally submerged. The stern would come up first, leaving the props to spin in the air, producing the most …

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