• The Pier Goes To War: Halifax’s Pier 21 and the Second World War
    … the passengers and cargo of large ocean liners, and so could also accommodate the same vessels as troopships. With the outbreak of war in … but to say, "Throw us some money," and they would throw the English coins overboard, or over the ship, which would land on the cement dock … we’d get the most coins by pushing the others out of the way.” [26] The return for many Canadian service personnel was more sombre: the …
  • Resettling Child Refugees: Canada and Armenian Orphans, 1923-1927
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 20, 2020) Introduction For centuries, child orphans have sought permanent resettlement in … travel document. Named after the League’s first High Commissioner for Refugees, Fridtjof Nansen, the passport served as a travel certificate establishing a refugee’s identity, and was destined for use by over 1.5 million displaced by the First World War and the …
  • Cornelis Verwolf
    … Single Men and Women February 26, 1950 – Beaverbrae I have been asked numerous times why I left home … 18 and 45 years of age to send to the labour camps in Germany. Also gold, silver, art, paintings, bicycles, horses, food and anything of … soldiers encountered in Holland took them longer. Freedom did not come to our town until May 10, 1945. WHAT A DAY! The Canadian soldiers …
  • Annual Reports and Quarterly Financial Reports
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  • Corey Verwolf
    … 18 and 45 years of age to send to the labour camps in Germany. Also gold, silver, art, paintings, bicycles, horses, food and anything of … soldiers encountered in Holland took them longer. Freedom did not come to our town until May 10, 1945. WHAT A DAY! The Canadian soldiers … have had a good life, and made a good living in Holland. My sisters visit Canada on a regular basis, but my brothers who can well afford …
  • Order-in-Council PC 1911-1324
    … participated in the alarmist exclusion by creating many obstacles for immigrants of African descent. For instance, Canadian immigration … fare for train travel, rather than the reduced settler rate. [4] The Commissioner of Immigration for Western Canada bribed a medical … in British Guiana who was living in the United States and wished to come to Canada. [6] Racist attitudes about Black settlement in the …
  • Port of Precedence: A History of Immigration at the Port of Quebec Part 1
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 22, 2020) Introduction Before the arrival of Europeans, Algonquin and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) … as Kaniatarowanenneh , meaning “big waterway”) and the area later encompassing Quebec City (known in Algonquin as Kébec , meaning “where … Five Leading National Ports,” Urban History Review 10.3 (1982): 26. A sizable amount of literature exists on the Port of Quebec, see …
  • John Vanderlaan
    … promote emigration. Countries preferred by many emigrants were Canada, the U.S.A., New Zealand and South Africa. I had several reasons … adventure. A friend of mine was in Canada at that time, on a half year visitors visa, to visit a brother and his wife, who had emigrated a few years …
  • “The Immigration Act a weapon”: Panama Maru and the Exclusion of Immigrants, 1913
    … Officer on the boat? Mr Singh (A): A man at Hong Kong told me to say what I said on the boat. Q: Is what you said on the boat true? A: The man at Hong King said to me ‘You say just as I am telling you and you will be landed.’ What he said to …
  • Canadian Multiculturalism Policy, 1971
    … being ignored. [1] The commission addressed these concerns in their fourth and final report, recommending that minority groups be given … society. The government committed to support multiculturalism in four specific ways: assistance to cultural groups in their development …