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1869 Open Door
The first immigration act in Canada was established in1869. This policy was essentially called "Open Door", laying very few restrictions to people who wished to immigate. The prime minister Alexander Mackenzie statedthat "No British communtiy should legistate against any class of people". The first immigration legistation explicity rejected only criminals and those who were unable to support themselves. -
Dominion Lands Act 1872
The Dominion Lands act was legislationthat granted a quarter section of free land (160 acres) to any settler age of 21 or older or who ever paid ten dollar registration fee. In return the owner had to to live on this land for three years. -
Immigrants of Europe
In 1896, a man named Clifford Sifton, as the new minister of the interior, actively pursued immigrants from all parts of Europe to open the Canadian west. He simplified the regulations of the dominion lands act and enabled the immagrants to secure their land more quickly. -
1905-1906 Frank Oliver "Immigration Act"
Frank Oliver became the Minister of the interior in 1905, the first act was to establish a Canadian act was known as the "Immigration Act Of 1906". The act defined the meaning of the term "immigrant" and barred a broad spectrum of immigrants from Canada. The governments power increased deporting certain classes of individuals and decreased the amount of "Landing Money" immagrants needed to have their possesion when the arrived. -
1907 British Columbia and Japan government
A Vancouver riot brought demands from British Columbia for the goovernment to put measures in place to avoid Asian immigration. Ottawa negotiated an agreement where Japan would only allow 400 people into Canada. Mackenzie King, as deputy Minister of Labour, tried to find out the origin of these problems. This amendment, which came in effect in 1908 was known as "continuous-journey regulation". However Frank Oliver not only secretly continued the arrangement but expanded it. -
immigration act
-Oliver was also responsible for the immigration act, this gave the "Cabinet" the authority to "exclude immigrants belonging to any race unsuited to thr climate or requirements of Canada.
-The Canadian government was determined to discourage the entry of certain categories of people. -
1911 private schemes for the Black
While the immmigration department of the government actively encouraged American farmers to emigrate to the Canadian west, but they did not attempt to recuit Black farmers. Private schemes for Black settlement were aslo discouraged. When the anti-black sentiment of of the newly created the state of Ohio in the Untied States threathened to drive a Black migration of the black. -
376 east indians
-The most dramatic challenge happened in the year 1914 when 376 Eastern indians (22 of whom were returning Canadians) arrived in Vancouver harbour aboard the KOMAGATA MARU, a japanese tramp steamer hired by the wealthySikh merchant .
- Passengers were denied to food and water by the Canadian authorities determined no not allow the immigrants into Canada, 20 of the passangers comittee agreed the government's demand that a test case heard by the 'Immigration Board of Enquiry". -
The amendment immigration act
-The amendment to the immigration act in 1919 allowed government to the bar to specified groups of immigrants.
-among those that were denied the entry to Canada were th Dounkhobours, Mennonites, and the Hutterites as well as other persons which have been enemies of Canada duriong the war.
-the continued un-welcoming these people until the amendment was rescinded by the government of Mackenzie King in 1923 -
Chinese Immigration act
In 1923 there was an new act called "the chinese immigration act" whose provisions were so broad that the chinese immigrants were virually barred.
-the new law went into effect on July 1, 1923 and that day was known as "Humuliation Day"
- this paved the Canada to recive immigrants from countries previously desighned as "Non-prefered list" such as Latvia, lithuania, Estonia, Poland, russia, Germany and Romania