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Asiatic Race Discrimination (Stefan)
Between the World Wars, Canada decided not to let people of the Asiatic race in. People of the Asiatic race are Armenians, who were fleeing genocide. 1300 people were let in. -
Canada Not Letting in Refugees After WW1 (Stefan)
After many people were displaced due to the first world war, Canada declined to let people in because once they were let in, they couldn't deport them. -
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Very Few Jewish Refugees Let in (Stefan)
Between the 1930s and 1945, Jewish people fled Germany and near countries. Canada was very antisemetic and didn't let many in. Between 1930 and 1945 Canada only let in 5000. This included the St. Louis. -
MS St Louis (Stefan)
The Ms st Louis was carrying over 900 Jewish refugees fleeing the third reich. They wanted to go to Cuba and The US but got rejected and wanted to go to Canada instead. Canada denied them and they had to go back to Europe. Around 250 of them would die in the holocaust. -
Hungarian Refugees
11 years after WW2 ended there was a revolution building in Hungry. A war within the country broke out. There were heavy casualties and over 3000 civilians were killed. So, people ran and tried to immigrate into other countries but no one would accept these refugees because Hungry was allied with Nazi Germany in WW2 and had fears that they might disturb the peace in there countries. Canada, accepted these refugees. In a few months Canada had gotten over 37,000 Hungarian Refugees.(TheStar.com) -
Tubercular Refugees Let in (Stefan)
Against Canada's immigration laws in 1959, Canada let in 325 tubercular refugees. Canada normally only let in healthy people. -
Vietnamese Boat People
The new communist government took control of Vietnam in 1975. They would threaten any anti-communist subject still in southern Vietnam with execution or severe punishment (Association for diplomatic studies and training, paragraph 2). This would force the anti-communists to evacuate Vietnam in search of safer living conditions. These actions led to the refugee crisis of the Vietnamese boat people (Radio Canada International, paragraph 1). -
Immigration Act 1978
The Immigration Act of 1978 made changes to the previous act allowing more people form Asia, The Caribbean and Latin America to come to Canada. -
Sikh Refugees to Canada (Will)
A small ship carrying 174 Sikhs pulled up near Charlesville, a small town 200 miles south of Halifax. All but 1 Sikh swam to shore to become refugees in Canada(Cruxton, 456). Every refugee stayed, but the unnamed captain of the freighter was arrested for transporting immigrants illegally into Canada. -
Bosnian Muslims Accepted in. (Stefan)
In 1992 5000 Bosnian Muslim people were accepted into Canada to escape ethnic cleansing in the Yugoslav civil war -
Fujian Province Refugees (Stefan)
in 1999 refugees from the Fujian province in china were fleeing impoverished conditions without proper ID. The boats they came on were very dirty and they needed medical attention. Then, MP Leon Benoit called them a threat to public health. 444 of 577 refugee claims were denied. -
The last time the laws regarding Refugees was changed.
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Arab Spring (Carter)
A series of government rebellions in many middle eastern countries. One of these countries was Syria, who was run by the Al Assad dictators. The Al Assad brothers refused to step down, this lead to a civil war in Syria. (“The European Refugee Crisis and Syria Explained”, Youtube) -
Syrian Civil War (Carter)
Due to the Al Assad dictators refusing to step down in the Arab Spring rebellion, a civil war started in Syria began where different ethnic groups began to fight each other in changing coalitions. This left lots of civilians in Syria in distress, these people all have hopes on leaving Syria. (“The European Refugee Crisis and Syria Explained”, Youtube) -
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Syrian Refugees (Stefan)
Canada resettles over 40, 000 Syrian refugees fleeing from the conflicts in the Middle East. -
Syrian Refugees in Canada (Carter)
Canada is one of the main destinations of Syrian refugees. Since the liberal election in 2015, Canada started to accept in a large quantity of Syrian refugees. The liberal government established a 678 million dollar plan for refugee resettlement in Canada (Nov 2015). As of January 29, 2017, Canada has accepted 40 081 Syrian refugees. (“#WelcomeRefugees: Key Figures”, Government of Canada) (“Canada's refugee plan: What we know (and don't know) so far”, The Globe and Mail) -
Canada Ontario Immigration Agreement (Will)
The governments of Canada and Ontario announced a new agreement designed to bring skilled immigrants to Ontario and train them to meet Ontario's occupational requirements. This is projected to bring in 1 million permanent residents to Ontario in 2018-2020(Government of Ontario) -
Canadas' Current Immigration Laws (Stefan)
Canadas current laws regarding refugees:
Canada offers refugee protection to people in Canada who face persecution in their home country, or where they currently live, and people who would face persecution if they returned to that country.
