1. Canada’s Immigration
Laws and Policies
Question:
Early History of Canadian Immigration.
Group: Brittnee, Danielle and Tyler

2. 1896 - 1906
Population:
British - 327,119 Black - 47
Chinese - 27 Dutch - 1,122
French - 6,653 Polish - 42,538
German - 11,459 Russian - 16,046
Jewish - 24,415 Ukrainian - 269
Italian - 27,786 American - 259,332
Japanese - 2,282 East Indian - 432

3. 1906 - 1915
Population:
British - 926,003 Black - 47
Chinese - 32,295 Dutch - 1,122
French - 18,811 Polish - 42,538
German - 27,755 Russian - 16,046
Jewish - 52,494 Ukrainian - 269
Italian - 92,349 American - 259,332
Japanese - 14,514 East Indian - 432

4. 1916 - 1925
Population:
British - 402,348 Black - 575
Chinese - 11,622 Dutch – 5,002
French - 4,713 Polish - 18,213
German - 10,891 Russian - 10,976
Jewish - 31,284 Ukrainian - 3,671
Italian - 20,672 American - 313,499
Japanese - 6,107 East Indian - 178

5. 1926 - 1935
Population:
British - 273,695 Black - 604
Chinese - 7 Dutch - 7,855
French - 3,699 Polish - 35,187
German - 64,512 Russian - 5,153
Jewish - 21,856 Ukrainian - 57,719
Italian - 11,828 American - 180,945
Japanese - 2,479 East Indian - 515

6. 1936 - 1945
Population:
British – 45,793 Black - 161
Chinese – 1 Dutch - 912
French - 1,681 Polish - 2,288
German - 2,753 Russian - 560
Jewish - 3,656 Ukrainian - 5,663
Italian - 1,439 American - 56,043
Japanese - 397 East Indian - 62

7. 1946 - 1955
Population:
British - 367,705 Black - 1,406
Chinese - 14,104 Dutch - 114,777
French - 24,152 Polish - 61,568
German - 159,207 Russian - 7,709
Jewish - 37,474 Ukrainian - 34,335
Italian - 135,156 American - 90,752
Japanese - 251 East Indian - 1,139

8. 1955 - 1961
Population:
British - 244,278 Black - 4,941
Chinese - 11,162 Dutch - 40,773
French - 16,823 Polish - 17,842
German - 98,234 Russian - 1,212
Jewish - 15,975 Ukrainian - 2,106
Italian - 150,573 American - 65,732
Japanese -952 East Indian - 3,238

9. 1946 - 1980
Population:
Italy - 485,191 Austria - 70,321
United States - 470,991 Yugoslavia - 60,098
Netherlands - 185,006 Hungary - 57,001
West Indian - 183,998 Australia- 55,533
Portugal - 147,327 Ireland - 46,151
Greece - 131,452 Belgium - 45,780
Poland - 113,323 Switzerland - 40,950

10. 1900 - 1970
Regional Origin of Canadian Immigrants:
North/West Europe: Belgium, British (British Isles, Ireland, Australia, New Zeland,
Union of South Africa, Newfoundland), Denmark, Finland, Holland, France, Germany,
Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland
Eastern/Central Europe: Austria, Czech and Slovak, Estonia, Hungary, Jewish, Latvia,
Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine.
Southern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Spain,
Yugoslavia.
Asia: Arab, Armenian, China, India (Indian sub-continent), Iran, Japan, Lebanon, Syria,
Turkey.
Africa: Egypt, Black, Carribean

11. 1930’s
Why did Canada Refuse to Admit Jewish Refugees in
the 1930's?
The rise to power of Hitler in early 1933, and the establishment of Nazism in
Germany, led in the remaining years of the 1930's to a set of increasingly
severe measures against Jews that were to end, in the course of the Second
World War, with the Holocaust, an attempt to destroy an entire population
and in which an estimated 6 million European Jews were to die. In the
1930's, the boycotts initiated in 1933 and 1934, the Nuremberg laws (1935)
and Kristallnacht (1938) gave clear sign to the Jews of Germany that they
should leave the country and seek settlement elsewhere. The main problem
they faced was that few countries were prepared to accept large numbers of
refugees. For its part, Canada only admitted around 5,000 Jewish refugees in
the 1930's.

12. Sources:
www.google.ca
Canadian immigration history
http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/QuebecHistory/encyclopedia/Immigration
HistoryofCanada.htm
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