Canadian immagration laws before 1945

By tass.m

  • open door policy

    Rejected criminals. popers and Infirm people.

  • Domion lands' act

    • Granted a quater section of free land(160 acres) to any settler 21 years of age or over. who paid a ten dollar registarion fee.

  • Clifford sifton

    Clifford sifton as the new minister of interior Activlily Presued immagrants from all parts of Europe to ope canada west.
    Clifford sifton simplifed the regulationg of the domions act and enbabled the immagrants to secure there land quickly.

  • Immigrantion act of 1906

    this act defined the meaning of immagrant and barred a broad spectrum of immigrants from canada.

  • vancouver riot

    Brought demands on british columbia for the goverment to put measures in a place to stop immigrantion to asians.

  • Contiuos journey regulation

    under this regulation all would-be immigrants to canada were required to travel to canada by continous passage from there country of origin

  • Immigration act of 1910

    • Excluding immigrants belonging to any race unsuites to the climate or requirments of canada.

  • 1910

    • were to have 200 hundred dollars in cash when they landed in canada.

  • Municapal coucil passed a resulotion

    -They didnt allow Black and asian People.

  • Komagata Maru

    • the continuos -journey and other barriers to east indian immigration did not go unchallenged.
    • Komagata Maru was a japense tramp steamer hired by a wealthy Sikh Merchant.

  • Immigration board of Enquiry

    • the case of Munshi singh was disallowed because he had not followed the continous- journey regulation.

  • British hindus residing in canada.

    • Sihk finally presuded the federal goverment to pass and in council in 1919 allowing "british hindous residing in canada"to bring there wives and children into canada the continous-journey regulation remained in effect until 1947

  • the amandedment to the immigration act in 1919

    -goverment barred enrty to specifed groups of immigrants among those used to be denied entry to canada were the doukhobours
    mennonites, and huntterietes, as well as all perons whitch had been emenies of canada during the war.

  • Chinese immigration act- Humilation day.

    • Abolished the head tax which had been placed on chinese immigrants in 1885 it was replaced with "Chinese immigration act" the new law went into effect on Jul.1st 1923. the date Jul.1st was known as "Humilation day" by canadian chincese

  • Canadian pacific agreement

    • Canadian goverment signed an agreement with the canadian pacific pacific railway allowing then to recuit cheap fergien workers. -The Non preffered were : Latvia , Lithunia , Estonia, Poland, Russia, Yugoslavia, Germany, Austria and Romania