Italians immigrants were a total of 959,202 during those two decades. In the other hand, Mexican immigrants out totaled 2,884. Perhaps, the decline of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. territory can be the result of the Immigration Act of March 3, 1891 which allowed the Secretary of the Tr...
Canada before 1891 has been called “a huge demographic railway station” where thousands of men, women, and children were constantly going and coming, and where the number of departures invariably exceeded that of arrivals.” G By 1891 Eastern Canada had its share of both large urban centres ...
July 1, 2023, marks 100 years since theChinese Immigration Act, 1923, commonly known as the Chinese Exclusion Act, was passed into law. Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has recently opened and digitized records arising from the Act’s mandatory registration of “every person of Chinese origin...
“Rather more than four oranges for every man, woman and child in Canada or a total of 482,000 boxes of this fragrant fruit were landed at Pier “B-C” of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Vancouver in December, and were rushed through the prairie provinces and to the east of Canada for...
The most recent Senate versions (S.264 -– Dream Act of 2021) and House (H.R.6 -– American Dream and Promise Act of 2021) would have allowed undocumented immigrants who (1) were brought to the U.S. as children and have lived in the U.S. for four years continuously; (2) are ...
Canada - Confederation, WWI, Immigration: Section 146 of the British North America Act provided for the admission of Rupert’s Land (the territory around Hudson Bay) to the new dominion. The first action of the federal government was to buy out the title