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it rejected criminals and paupers or inferm people
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this one gave a quater section pf free land to anyone 21 and over for 10 dollars. the settlers had to live on this land for three years.
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he was the new minister of the interior,actively pursed immigrants from all parts of europe.dominion lands of act enabled immigrants to secure their land more quickly.
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his first act was establish a canadian immigrant act known as the immigration act of1906.it increased the goverments power to deport certain classes of individuals and decreased the ammount of landing money.
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the vancouver riot brought about demands from british columbia for the goverment to put measures in place to stop the immigration of asian people.
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as a result of the kings findings, the laurier goverment made an important amendment to the immigration act.this amendment, which came into effect in 1908, was known as the ''continous-journey regulation''.
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this gave the cabinet the authority to ''exclude immigrants belonging to any race unsuited to the climate or requirements of canada''.
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the continuous-journey to regulation and other barries to east indian immigration did not go unchallenge.the most dramatic challenge occurred in vancouver in may 1914 when 374 east indians arrived in vancouver harbour aboard the komagata maru,a japenese tramp steamer hired by a wealthy sikh merchant,
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allowed goverment to bar entry to specified groups of Doukhobours, mennonites, and hutterites.
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federal goverments finally allowed ''british hindus residing in canada'' with family and their children.
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in 1923 Mackenzie King change the law so that hutterites and other people could come to Canda.
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allies lifted restriction of German immigarnts
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Canadian government abolished the head tax which had been placed on chinese immigrants.
replaced with a new chinese immigration act; it made Chinese immigrants not allowed into Canada.
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they wanted cheap foreign workers. immigrants from non perferred countries such as poland.
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During the depression to deprt approximately 30,000 immigrants were with public charge. Prime Minister King was sympethetic to refugees but he was interested in keeping Canada united.
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the slump in immigration which occured after the first world war did not occur in 1945. Canada enjoyed a period of prospertity
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Canada resulted in the canadian citizenship act of 1947 on January 1. it provided for the conferring of a common Canadian citizenship on all Canadians.