Immigration in the 1920

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Immigration in the 1920s
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Immigration in the 1920s

• Immigration stopped during the war
• By the end of the war 20 of population
  immigrants
• Deep recession immediately following war
• Jobs scarce immigrants blamed
• Government immigration policies criticized

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Immigration in the 1920s

• Immigration act of 1919
• Preferred immigrants white English speaking
  Americans and Europeans
• Northern Europeans next
• Eastern and Central Europe next
• Asians, Blacks, Gypsies, Jews last

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Immigration in the 1920s

• People with strange customs considered not
  desirable b/c they would not be easily
  assimilated (HS?) into Canadian culture
• Quebecers afraid numbers of English would
  increase, threatening French culture (HS?)
• Industrialists unhappy needed immigrant labor

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Immigration in the 1920s

• 1925 Railway Agreement
• eased restrictions
• Allowed people from non preferred locations to
  enter Canada
• 1919-1929 1,300,000 immigrants came to Canada
• Worked road building, mining, pulp and paper,
  railroads

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Immigration in the 1920s

• Settled in neighborhoods with people from their
  country
• Little Italy, China town etc.
• Easy targets for Klu Klux Klan
• KKK opposed immigrants of non- English speaking,
  non- Protestant, and non- White peoples

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Immigration Posters (E)