National Immigration Project/ Immigration Damages Litigation
IMMIGRATION TIMELINE:
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IMMIGRATION TIMELINE:
1867 - PRESENT
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• 1867: BNA ACT
• → Canada is Created• → Attempts are made to populate the country
• → Immigrants mainly come from British Isles
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1878: National Policy
• → Attempts are made to settle western Canada
• → Target not just people from British Isles, but Northern Europeans
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1870s &1880s: Asian Immigration• → Immigrants from China, Italy, and Japan
came to work on railway• → A “Head Tax” forced them to pay in
order to enter the country
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1900-1913: Pre-WWI• → Huge boom in immigration• → Clifford Sifton is Minister in charge• → Increase in population of Western
Canada (1905: Sask & Alberta created)• → Jewish/Italian/Greeks
arrive in urban areas
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The immigration laws during the late 19th and early 20th centuries were discriminatory towards certain groups:
• Poor Immigrants• Those considered mentally incompetent• Non-Europeans (i.e. non-Whites)
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1914-1918: WWI
• → Pause in immigration • → During war discrimination towards
Canadians of Germans, Austrians, Turkish origin
• → Immigration picks up in 1920s when people come from Germany, Russia, Ukraine
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1929-1945: Great Depression & WW2
• → Pause in immigration• → Jews and other persecuted groups are
not admitted to Canada • → Canadians of German,
Italian, and Japanese origins are placed in internment camps
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Internment Camps• After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in
1942, the government passed an Order in Council authorizing the removal of "enemy aliens" within a 100-mile radius of the BC coast.
• On March 4, 1942 22,000 Japanese Canadians were given 24 hours to pack before being interned. They were first incarcerated in a temporary facility at Hastings Park Race Track in Vancouver.
• Women, children and older people were sent to internment camps in the Interior.
• Men who complained about separation from their families or violated the curfew were sent to the "prisoner of war" camps in Ontario.
• The property of the Japanese Canadians - land, businesses, and other assets - were confiscated by the government and sold, and the proceeds used to pay for their internment.
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1945+: Post-WW2• → Great increase in immigration• → More diversity in immigrant groups but
they are still coming from Europe (Italians, Greeks, Portuguese, Dutch, Poland, USSR)
• → Baby Boom! (people starting families)
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Immigration Act of 1952
• → Still prioritized “White” immigration i.e. people from European countries
• → Individuals who suffered from mental illness, had a disability (deaf, blind, etc.), a sickness, alcoholics, prostitutes, homosexuals and others are barred from coming to Canada.
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1971: Multiculturalism• → Multiculturalism becomes an official
policy of the Canadian government • → Multiculturalism promotes the equality
of different cultural groups
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1976: Immigration Act
• → This act reflected multicultural principles and corrected some of the past
discriminatory policies• → The act opened the door to immigrants
from all corners of the world (Asia, Africa, Latin America, and more...)
• → People would now be selected based on education, job skills, age, language, and other criteria
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1976: Immigration Act (cont’d)• → Top 5 Countries for immigrants in the 90s?
Hong Kong, China, India, Philippines, Sri Lanka• → Mostly settle in large cities (Toronto,
Vancouver, Montreal)• → Refugees are accepted (people that are
escaping problems in their home country)Ex: Vietnamese “Boat People”
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1991: Canada-Quebec Agreement
• → Quebec is given sole responsibility in selecting immigrants to the province
• → Priority is given to French-speaking regions of the world