Lesson 12

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    26 million people left Italy

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    213 Greeks in Canada in 1901, by 1911 the number grew to 2,600

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    Pier 21 was Canada's front door to over a million immigrants

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    WWII

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    War brides and their children accounted for 64,446 new arrivals

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    Almost 1.8 million new immigrants came to Canada.

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    Canada accepted 200,000 immigrants and many were refugees from Eastern Europe

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    Over 400,000 Italians came to Canada

  • Immigration Act

  • By then over a million displaced persons were in UN refugee shelters

  • Prime Minister King introduced a new immigration act that resulted in the first 500 non-sponsored refugees being processed for entry to Canada.

  • Department of Citizenship and Immigration was formed

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    Three different departments or agencies have been responsible for immigration policy in Canada since WWII

    The Department of Citizenship and Immigration (1950-65), the Department of Manpower and Immigration (1966-77) and the Canada Employment and Immigration Commission (est 1977)

  • Nearly 20,000 refugees from the Hungarian Revolution were admitted into Canada.

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    Canada introduced a point system for determining the desirability of individuals applying to immigrate to Canada.

  • Important reforms came in 1962 so the “well educated technical and professional people” needed could be recruited from “beyond Europe and the United States”

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    Revisions to the Immigration Act “reduced the colour bias"

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    Canada accepted 11,000 Czechoslovakian refugees

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    Thousands of ethnic Chinese refugees fled Vietnam.

  • For the first time in Canadian history, the majority of those immigrating into Canada were of non-European ancestry.

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    Canada accepted 6,175 Asians forced to flee Uganda in Africa in 1972 and in 1973 6, 000 political refugees from Chile were admitted to Canada on humanitarian grounds.

  • Green Paper on Immigration Policy. The Green Paper report that was given to Parliament in 1975 by a Special Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons.

  • Immigration Act replaced with Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). The act came into force in 2002.

  • Immigration Act.

  • 9/11

  • Year of the War Bride in Canada

    Year of the War Bride in Canada

  • Bill C-37, an amendment to the Citizenship Act known as the "Lost Canadian Bill" officially came into force” and established the status of war brides and their children as Canadian citizens.

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