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  • Jean V.K. Gerrard Campbell
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  • Hooks for History: Using a Building Model to Introduce Complex Pasts
    … – even things as tiny and offbeat as the addition of miniature trash cans – that would add opportunities for richer interpretation based on the model. Trash Cans and Baggage Adding waste bins to the model might seem something of …
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  • The Action Test of 1920: Literacy and Selection in Canadian Immigration
    … By Steven Schwinghamer, Historian For over a century, Canadian immigration authorities have used language proficiency as a … point of consideration in deciding whether a migrant is admissible to Canada. [1] This is not generally a controversial aspect of current Canadian immigration policy, but when the practice first emerged as an …
  • “The existing Immigration regulations will not offer any solution”: MS St. Louis in Canadian Context
    … anti-Semitism . Despite some successful cooperation between community organizations and immigration authorities to admit and settle … the careful support of F.C. Blair at the immigration branch. [26] He also drew funding from a European benefactor, who arranged a … Stephens, 1976), 116. ↩ C. Paul Vincent, “The Voyage of St. Louis Revisited,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 25:2 (Fall 2011), 255-257. …
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    … to April 30 Open: Wednesday to Sunday , 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Admission Prices Ticket Price includes tax Adult $19.00 Senior (60 years and … including First Nations, Inuit, and Métis A single attendant accompanying a person with a disability Canada Day (July 1) Everyone … Contact LAC's public service point in Halifax. Open: Holidays 2026 Heritage Day, February 16 March Break, March 16-20 Victoria Day, May …
  • Deportation from Canada during the Great Depression
    … – are much more strict in their requirements today in permitting a foreigner to enter their boundaries for permanent settlement.” – Harold … 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 …
  • Children of the Pier: Adolescent Experiences of Arrival and Process
    … Below are impressions of arrival and the immigration process of four adolescents through Pier 21 : Margaret Beal (Britain), Jackie … in Beirut for Naples, Italy with a stop in Port Said, Egypt. After four days, he arrived in Naples, where he transferred to a much larger … litres of oil each. We had six containers of those oil—olive oil, and, four containers of—of olives, uh, that were all home-made stuff, you …