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Canada needed immigrants to settle Prairie Provinces to make sure Americans did not take the land and to connect east and west Canada
Needed farmers and labourers
Looked for• White American Farmers• British Farmers• Eastern European (Ukrainian, Hungarian) farmers
Why Immigration?
In the late 1800s, the expansion of settlements in Canada’s West was needed for several reasons:
Connect British Columbia with the rest of Canada
Prevent the U.S. from annexing the prairies
Drive to make Canada a ‘Great Country’
In 1896, PM Wilfrid Laurier’s government began the ‘Last, Best West’ campaign to attract immigrant settlers to Canada.
Clifford Sifton, Minister of the Interior, was responsible
Settlers could claim up to 160 acres of free land in the West with more available cheaply
Clifford Sifton 1896-1905 Open Door policy
• Distributed pamphlets, posters
• Sent immigration officers to process applicants
• Targeted poor in troubled countries
Frank Oliver 1905-1910 Selective Policy
• Must have money to come (amount based on race)
• Immigration officers did best to turn away applicants
The 1900s was the beginning of Canada’s cultural mosaic
Government policy was not totally an ‘open door’ policy
Posters, pamphlets and recruiters only went to Britain, U.S., and Northern, Central and Eastern Europe
Immigrants from other areas were discouraged
Immigrants from Europe, US, Britain preferred
Those from Asia, Africa, Caribbean excluded
War brides and Children 186 000 refugees after the war
Refugees fleeing Soviet power in Europe
1962—job skills and education #1 factor in immigration
Needed skilled workers because many from Canada were going to US
1967—Point System – people were given points based on education, age, skills, language
Remedied the fact that the 1967 act still favoured white immigrants
Independent class—sponsorships, business people
Family class—immigrating as a family Refugee class—those who feared for
lives or suffered persecution
Immigration is needed because of a declining birth rate
It is needed to sustain population numbers
Canada has one of the most open immigration policies in the world
Canadians used immigrants to do jobs they did not want to
Chinese immigrants to Canada built the Canadian Railway
Once the railway was built the government started to discourage Chinese immigration
Chinese had to pay a Head Tax in order to gain entry into the country• 1885$50;• 1900$100 • 1903$500
July 1st 1923Chinese Exclusion Act: banned all Chinese from entering Canada
Repealed in 1947
http://archives.cbc.ca/society/immigration/topics/1433/
The “massive immigration of Orientals would alter the fundamental composition of the Canadian population” and “give rise to social and economic problems”
-PM King
India, like Canada, was part of the British Commonwealth
Any citizen holding a passport from one of the Commonwealth countries is allowed to move freely between the common wealth nations
Therefore, South Asians were allowed to be in Canada as much as Canadians!
In 1908 Canada passed the Continuous Passage Act which stated that Indians would have to come to Canada via direct passage from India
Considering the distance from India to Canada by boat and the average income in India, these rules and laws were blatant discrimination
Landed on BC shore, and Canadian government did not want to let them in
In the end, they waited for 2 months in a legal battle, and only 24 were accepted out of 376
A refugee is a person who has been pushed away from his or her home and seeks refuge elsewhere.
From 1933-1939 Canada accepted 4000 Jews• Anti-Semitism in Canada—would not ‘fit-in’
to Canadian society• Effects of Depression
St. Louis Incident• June 1939—907 Jews arrived on ocean liner• PM King refused to accept these refugees
and they returned to Europe where they would die in concentration camps
Blacks were “unsuitable to the climate and requirements of Canada” in attempts to keep Canada white
Between 1901-1911 fewer than 1500 African Americans came
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