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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
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Immigration Act
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By then over a million displaced persons were in UN refugee shelters
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Prime Minister King introduced a new immigration act that resulted in the first 500 non-sponsored refugees being processed for entry to Canada.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Immigration Act replaced with Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). The act came into force in 2002.
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Immigration Act.
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9/11
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Year of the War Bride in Canada
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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.
