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The act of the 1911 immigration was a choice of who gets to immigrate bad on their race and who gets deported.(City News 2020)Photo Credit:(City News 2020)
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Saskatchewan wanted to create a multicultural province. The province did not want people of colour. They wanted the new immigrants to follow their culture.(CBC 2019) Photo credit: (CBC 2019)
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Ontario was the first province to react to social change when it passed the Racial Discrimination Act of 1944. This milestone enactment successfully disallowed the distribution and show of any image, sign, or notice that communicated ethnic, racial, or strict segregation. It was trailed by other clearing enactment. (TheCanadianEncyclopedia)
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On January 1, 1946, the Government of Canada tried to deport ten thousand Japanese because of the war (The Canadian Encyclopedia, n.d.). There was a big protest against kicking out the Japanese and so, still four thousand Japanese were told to leave back to Japan (The Canadian Encyclopedia, n.d.). It is important to understand that people protested when they seen something that was obviously wrong, even in 1946. Photo credit: (Nishiguchi 2018)
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Viola Desmond was dragged out the movie theatre. Due to the fact that she was seating in the "White" area. She was then removed out of the movie theatre and arrested my the police. By 2010 she was then pardoned by the court.(The Canadian Encyclopedia 2019)
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The Chinese Immigration Act was repealed in 1947 (Chan 2013). From 1923 to 1947 the Chinese were not allowed to immigrate to Canada (Chan 2013). Before 1923 the Chinese had to pay a head tax of $500 (Chan 2013). In today's dollars, taking into account an average inflation rate of 2.85% per year, $500 in 1923 is equivalent to $7610.53 in 2020 (Webster 2020). Photo Credit: (Chan 2013).
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After the Israel was accepted as a nation by the United Nations, Canada then recognized Israel also (Bard, n.d.). Canada's recognition followed only after the recognition of the United Nations. Photo credit: (The Encyclopedia Britannica 2018)
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In 1953, the Government of Canada forced eight families to live on Grise Fjord (BC Teacher's Federation, n.d.). This was a forced immigration that caused plenty of hardship for the eight families that had to try to survive there in the cold, I am sure. Photo credit: (Canadian Museum of History 2017)
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Two coloured people decided to go into 2 Dresden white only restaurants. They were deciding to be testers.
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As Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Ellen Fairclough changed Canada's Immigration policy getting rid of a "White only" attitude towards letting people into the country (Government of Canada, n.d.).
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The second wave of Japanese movement started in 1967 because of the points system. Many Japanese outsiders who came to Canada during this period worked in the service or skilled trade.
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The Chinese and Asian immigrants has finally been accepted in Canada. Due to the new laws that Canada has proposed. (The Canadian Encyclopedia).
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7,000 Chilean and other Latin American refugees were allowed to stay in Canada after the violent overthrow of Salvador Allende’s government in 1973. (The Government of Canada)
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In 1978, Canada established another Immigration Act that certified Canada's pledge to the resettlement of exiles from persecution. Exiles would not, at this point be admitted to Canada as a special case for movement guidelines. Confirmation of displaced people was currently essential for Canadian migration law and guidelines. (The Government of Canada)
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Iranian refugees fled Iran following the overthrow of the Shah and the imposition of an Islamic Fundamentalist regime.(Government of Canada 2020)
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In 1983 the last segregated school for black kids closed down in Nova Scotia (Guysborough County Community Access Network Society, n.d.). According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, Ontario and Nova Scotia were the only provinces that had laws for the segregation of black kids to go to school in blacks only schools (Henry 2019).
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Canada changed its movement strategy to grow the rundown of business workers to incorporate financial specialists, business people and the individuals who are independently employed. This prompted expanded migration from Hong Kong where individuals had started to leave after Britain consented to move its state to China in 1997, and less significantly from Taiwan.
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Hong Kong immigrants settled in Canada, with Ontario and BC. 82 per cent of people of Chinese origin lived in one of these two provinces. (The Government of Canada)
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Immigration and Refugee Protection Act came into force and set out main principles and features of the refugee protection program.
