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2006 BCE
Immigration and refugee protection act
The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act dates from 2002. It is the most recent of many Laws Canada has had immigration since it became a country in 1867. It established categories of who came to Canada from other countries to make permanent homes here. -
1976 BCE
Immigration Act
The Immigration Act. 1976, focused on who should be allowed into Canada, not on who should be kept out. The act came into force in 1978, along with new immigration regulations. This act gave laws and defined "prohibited classes" in much broader terms. Individuals who could become a burden on social welfare or health services would now be refused entry, rather than specific categories of people, those who identified themselves as homosexual, the disabled, and what ever gender you were. -
1976 BCE
Creation of Immigration Categories
It created four new classes of immigrants who could come to Canada: refugees, families, assisted relatives, and independent immigrants. While independent immigrants had to take part in the points system, other classes did not have to take part in this test so long as they passed basic criminal, security, and health checks. The act also created alternatives to deportation for less serious criminal or medical offenses, since deportation meant the immigrant was barred from entering Canada for life. -
1976 BCE
Singh Decision
The decision is Satnam Singh came to Canada from India seeking refugee status. Canada's government rejected his case under the Immigration Act, 1976. The Immigration Act, 1976, did not allow Mr.Singh to state his case in person or to appeal the government's decision on his case. -
Period: 1950 BCE to 1976 BCE
Refugees being added as an immigration category
Canada signed the U.N Convention relating to the status of refugees in 1951 during the 1950s to 1960s Canada offered to shelter refugees in response of world crisis in 1976 Canada made refugees one of its immigration categories. the change that meant Canada accepted refugees steadly -
1939 BCE
Internment of Italian Canadians
In 1939, the camp was used for the internment of enemy aliens. German, Italian and Japanese Canadians were held there at different times during the war. The majority of Italian Canadians from central and eastern Canada were sent to Petawawa in June 1940. -
1914 BCE
Komagata Maru Incident
The Komagata Maru incident involved the Japanese steamship Komagata Maru on which a group of citizens of the British Raj attempted to immigrate to Canada in 1914 but were denied entry. Komagata Maru sailed from Hong Kong, then a holding of the British Empire, via Shanghai, China, and Yokohama, Japan, to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1914, carrying 376 passengers from Punjab, British India. Of them, 24 were admitted to Canada, but the other 352 passengers were not allowed in Canada -
Period: 1914 BCE to 1920 BCE
Internment of Ukrainian
The Ukrainian Canadian internment was part of the confinement of "enemy aliens" in Canada during and for two years after the end of the First World War, lasting from 1914 to 1920, under the terms of the War Measures Act. -
1885 BCE
Chinese head tax in Canada
The Chinese head tax was a fixed fee charged to each Chinese person entering Canada. The head tax was first levied after the Canadian parliament passed the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 and was meant to discourage Chinese people from entering Canada after the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The tax was abolished by the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923, which stopped all Chinese immigration except for business people, clergy, educators, students, and other categories