Forging Our Legacy: Canadian Citizenship and Immigration, 1900–1977
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
The Arrival of the Europeans
- Canada’s first great wave of European immigration
- Clifford Sifton and his policies
- Selling the West
- Courting Americans
- No welcome mat for black Americans
- Immigrants in sheepskin coats: the Ukrainians
- German immigration
- Repatriation of French Canadians
- Italian immigration
- Russian immigration
- British immigration
- The home children
- The Barr Colony
- Immigration to British Columbia
- The British
- The Japanese
- The Sikhs
- The Norwegians
- Non-agricultural settlement
- Opposition to immigration
Chapter 3
Charting a New Course
- Frank Oliver
- Changing direction
- The Immigration Act of 1906
- The Immigration Act of 1910
- Cancellation of the North Atlantic Trading Company contract
- Promoting British immigration
- The Vancouver Riot of 1907
- The Komagata Maru incident
- Establishment of a border inspection service
- Theory and practice
- Creating a new society
Chapter 4
Immigration Slump
- The First World War
- The First World War and foreign-born Canadians
- The return of peace
- The Winnipeg General Strike
- Minimizing ethnic diversity
- Courting British immigrants
- Jewish immigration
- The railway agreement
- The Great Depression chokes off immigration
- Deporting the unwelcome
- Closing the door to refugees
- Champions of the oppressed
- The “accidental immigrants”
- Guest children from Great Britain
- The plight of the Japanese Canadians
Chapter 5
Towards the Canadian Citizenship Act
- The growth of Canadian nationalism
- The Canadian Citizenship Act of 1947
- Post-war rise in immigration
- Polish war veterans admitted to Canada
- Mackenzie King makes a statement on immigration
- Canada opens the gates to displaced persons
- Immigration of Balts to Canada
- Canada welcomes Dutch farmers
- Contract labour
- A further liberalization of immigration policy
- The 1952 Immigration Act
- Refugees from Palestine
- The Hungarian refugees
- The downturn in immigration
- The new wave of immigrants
Chapter 6
Trail-Blazing Initiatives
- Ellen Fairclough
- World Refugee Year, 1959–60
- Canada abolishes its racist immigration policy
- The 1966 white paper
- The points system
- Robert Andras
- The green paper of 1974
- The Immigration Act, 1976
- The 1977 Citizenship Act
- New faces in the immigration queue
- Refugees
- Refugees from Tibet
- The Ugandan Asians
- Draft-age Americans in Canada
- Refugees from Chile
- The boat people
- Provincial interest in immigration
- Multiculturalism
- What does the future hold?
© Public Works and Government Services Canada, 2000
Cat. no. Ci51–93/2000E
ISBN 0–662–28983–8
October 2000
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