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It is based on excerpts from seven oral history interviews conducted by the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21: five with Chilean exiles who came to Canada in the 1970s, one with the grandson of a political prisoner under Pinochet, and one with a retired Canadian immigration officer responsible for Canada’s refugee unit at the time.
Oct 26, 2020 · V-E Day marked the return home of Canadian service personnel and a new period of immigration to Canada. Between 1942 and 1948, 44,000 War Brides and their 22,000 children arrived in Canada, most of them through Halifax. Nearly a million postwar immigrants passed through Pier 21, including European displaced persons and political refugees.
The monument was developed in partnership between the Canadian Jewish Congress and Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Libeskind—who is the son of Holocaust survivors—unveiled the Wheel of Conscience at the Museum in 2011.
With the passage of Order-in-Council PC 695 on 21 March 1931, the government of Prime Minister R.B. Bennett implemented the tightest immigration admissions policy in Canadian history. [1] Further restrictions were deemed necessary after the onset of the Great Depression in order to combat soaring unemployment and further economic decline.
The Immigration Act of 1910 expanded the list of prohibited immigrants and gave the government greater discretionary authority concerning the admissibility and deportation of immigrants. Immigrants determined to be “unsuited to the climate or requirements of Canada” were prohibited, as were those sponsored by charitable institutions.
Dec 21, 2023 · From the inception of Canada’s federal immigration structure at Confederation until the massive resettlement programs following the Second World War, Canadian immigration policy and practice was animated by personal and institutional anti-Semitism. Despite some successful cooperation between community organizations and immigration authorities to admit and settle Jewish immigrants to Canada ...
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Countless Journeys. One Canada.
