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First Canadian Immigration Act
The first Immigration Act had little restrictions. As long as you didn't have a record, and had enough money to support yourself, you were welcomed into Canada! -
Dominion Lands' Act Of 1872
The Dominion Lands' Act of 1872 gave settlers who were at least 21 years old 160 acres of free land, as long as they paid a fee of ten dollars. When given the land, they had to build a house on the property, live there for at least three years, and and farm at least 30 acres of land. -
Clifford Sifton Becomes New Minister of Interior
When Clifford Sifton became the new Minister of Interior, he persued people from all over Europe to immigrate to Western Canada. He also made the Dominion Lans Act simpler allowing immigrants to have their own land faster than previously. -
Frank Oliver Becomes Minister of the Interior
When Frank Oliver became Minister of the Interior, his first act was establishing a new Immigration Act known as the "Immigration Act of 1906" It gave new meaning to who could be an immigrant, and gave the gorvernment more control in saying who could and could not enter. -
Vancouver Riot
The Vancouver Riot resulted in Canada taking extreme measures to stop the immigration of Asian people. This made Canada's relationship with Japan very awkward, and eventually a deal was settled that allowed 400 Japan immigrants into Canada per year. -
The Continuous-Journey Regulation
A new amendment known as the "Continuous-Journey Regulation" came into place that ended up disabling all immigrants from India. This new law required all immigrants to travel by continuous passage, going directly from their original country to Canada. This new immigration regulation also limited Japanese immigrants by closing the popular Japan to Hawaii to Canada route. -
Immigration Act of 1910
Frank Oliver put another act in play that didn't allow immigrants who weren't used to our climate into Canada. It helped the Governments abiliity to throw out people such as anarchists. -
Chinese Immigration Act
The Chinese Immigration act basically stopped all Chinese immigrants from entering Canada. It went into effect on July 1st, 1923, and was nicknamed "Humiliation Day" by Canadian Chinese. This law wasn't lifted until 1947. -
Canadian Pacific Railway Construction
In 1925, the Government allowed agreed to let in foriegn people as cheap labour. This was a way for immigrants who weren't really welcome before such as Russian, German, Austrian, Romanian, and more to get into Canada. -
Canadian Citizenship Act of 1947
After the war, Canadian citizenship was treated more as a privilege, and it was more difficult to obtain citizenship. The Canadian Citizenship Act also introduced new policies. All Canadian citizens would have automatic entry into Canada. You could not gain citizenship until you lived here for at least five years. Married woman would be given full control over their nationality status. Those were some of the newly introduced rights. -
Immigration Act of 1952
The Immigration Act of 1952 rules were still similar to the Immigration Act of 1947. They limited immigration by creating the abilty to deny citizenship to people from a certain nationality, ethnic group, occupation, -
Canadian Bill Of Rights
The Canadian Bill Of Rights was introduced by John Diefenbaker. It disabled applications to be denied due to reasons such as race, gender, religion, ect! -
The White Paper
The white paper suggested that the governmet tighten the sponsorship system to allow more independant immigrants in. This helped fill jobs, and erased the remaining descrimination in immigration. -
The Points System
The Points System went into place to virtually rid any prejudice during the selection of independant immigrants by giving them points for there education, langugue, and experience working. The more points they had, the more Canada wanted them. -
Immigration Act of 1976
This immigration act of 1976 set the rules for modern day immigration laws, and we still follow most of what it set. It broke immigrants up into classes. These classes were the family class, which was immidiate family and grandparents, humanitarian class, which included refugees and displaced persons, independant class, who were immigrants who applied for immigration themselves, and assisted relatives who were nominated to come to Canada by a family member.