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
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.
