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Beginning of Immigration in Canada
In the 1800's, Canada was lenient with who they let into the country. At the time they had a Chinese Head Hunter law in place, to keep the Chinese out of the country. This Head Hunter law offered a reward to people who informed the government of a Chinese immigrant. -
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Canadian Immigration
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First Immigration Act
Canada's first immigration act was mostly to prevent diseases from entering the country. It also placed a limit on the people able to sail on immigration ships. -
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Jewish Immigrants
138,000 Jewish immigrants moved to Canada. -
Chinese Immigration Act
This act decreased the amount of people exempt from the Head Taxes. -
Frank Oliver
Frank Oliver, a Liberal MP, defined the term "immigrant". He increased the power the governemnt held over immigration and deportation, as well as put in effect a $25 fee "landing fee". Asain immigrants still had a bounty on their heads. -
The War Measures Act
This act gave the government of Canada the ability to detain "enemy aliens", which were simply the immigrants in Canada. The people of Ukraine descent were affected most by this act. -
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WW1
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Women's Division
A Women's Division was incorporated into the Immigration Department. They made sure the single women immigrants had systems of care. Single women immigrants could be deported for having sexual relations outside of wedlock. -
Emprie Settlement Act
The Empire Settlement was Canada's way of bringing back immigrants. After WW1 Canada did a lot of deporting of their immigrants, so Canada put this act in place, hoping their rewards and incentives would be enough to get more immigrants to come to Canada. -
The Communist Party
The Communist Party was made illegal. Any immigrants that supported the Communist Party could be deported. -
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WW2
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Canadian Citizenship Act
Canada has finally made its own citizenship, seperate from Britain's citizenship. -
Ellen Fairclough
Ellen Fairclough introduced a new immigration act. Her act stated that any person who had the required education could enter Canada, race, color and nationality did not matter. But these people had to have a job planned (or plan to get one) and they could not be diseased, and could not be criminals. -
White Paper
A White Paper (report to solve a problem) was put on the immigration policies. This changed the way people were suppose to see immigration. It was now meant to be a way to increase the economy and the population. -
Points System
A Points System was put in place to pick the best suited immigrants, this was to make sure discrimination was removed from the immigration process. -
More Asian Immigrants
Up until this year, the majority of immigration was from Europe. This change was partly due to Canada'a new trade with third world countries. -
New Act
In 1976, there was a new immigration act. This act is the basis for the laws we follow in today's policies.
