Forging Our Legacy: Canadian Citizenship and Immigration, 1900–1977

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

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?

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