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  • 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 …
  • Medical Facilities at Pier 21
    … that medical and physical requirements of the Immigration Act were “[f]or the protection of residents of Canada, and to ensure that …
  • Pte. Charles Joseph Lutton
    … CHARLES JOSEPH LUTTON/"C" COMPANY THE IRISH REGIMENT OF CANADA 23/09/1939 - Militia 20/06/1940 - … Motorized Infantry Brigade. No other details are yet available. This information was passed on the Regiment in the afternoon. Everyone was … – 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 …
  • Hunger and Hope: Irish Famine Migration to Canada
    … Canadians claimed only to be of Irish origin. [2] The Irish Canadian community comprises 11.9 percent of Canada’s total population. [3] … and Protestant. Existing estimates that balanced census figures for origins and religion, indicate that by 1851, the Irish Catholic … the Irish Catholic community in Canada numbered approximately 260,000 people, with onward migration accounting for this decrease. [4] …
  • Kinship, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Canadian Immigration History
    … up at Hamburg to emigrate he might find one escaped murderer, three or four wasters and ne’er-do-wells, some very poor shop-keepers, artisans … an agreement with the United Kingdom to permit the entry of over four thousand Free Polish veterans. In appraising their potential for … “must not be allowed to remain in any office for more than twenty-four hours without action being taken.” [33] In these programs of …
  • Legacy Gift
    … history. A gift in your Will preserves Canada’s immigration stories, forever. Here are two stories from caring and compassionate Canadians like you who have taken the step of remembering … of Italian immigrants who came to Canada through Pier 21 in the 1950s, visited us in 2013 and reconnected with the experiences of her parents …
  • The Gold Rush in British Columbia and the Yukon
    … wealthy American ladies, Mary Hitchcock and Edith Van Buren, who had come to Dawson City not to make their fortune, but to experience … Klondike Gold Rush. The experiences of Hitchcock and Van Buren were far from common, however they illustrate the fervor of excitement that came with the discovery of gold in the Canadian West. When news broke of gold in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia in 1858, …
  • The Beginning of a Story Museum
    … by Carrie-Ann Smith, Vice President, Audience Engagement The Canadian Museum of Immigration … to Canada, but when we reflect on its beginning, the voices of four dynamic storytellers are heard above the rest. The Storytellers A … veteran who became an immigration officer, a German-Canadian mother of six who championed multiculturalism, a Nova Scotian farm boy turned …
  • Driving Canada: A Collaborative Oral History Project
    … archives, and exhibits oral histories of immigrants to Canada, for the project Driving Canada: A Front Seat View of Immigration … I believe they are not even issuing licenses.” [2] In many ways, this comment by Yalgar, captures the essence of what inspired Qissa to … (24.10.25RM): 01:27:55. ↩ Yalgar Singh, interviewed by Haroon Khalid, 26 October, 2024 in North York, Ontario. CMIP in collaboration with …
  • Nicholas Bosiuk
    … Our great-grandfather Nicholas (Mikolaj) Bosiuk was born on September 26, 1903 in Zelena, Skalot, Poland (now Ukraine). Sponsored by Wasyl … and a son Jason (wife Jessica Everett). William and Lovey have six grandchildren. Nicholas lived in Pine River until a stroke put him … hospital and a personal care home in Dauphin. He passed away on March 26, 1983 at the age of 79 years. His wife Katherine passed away on …

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