Intro. “Each year, Canada receives thousands of immigrants from all over the world. The country welcomes foreign students, temporary foreign workers, immigrants, and refugees from over 200 countries”, Canadian Immigration Facts & Statistics. During the 1900’s, Sir Wilfrid Laurier once stated: “The twentieth century shall be the century of Canada and of Canadian development”. This quote is something to agree with because, over the years, Canada is now seen as a very multicultural country due to vast immigration. Immigration has shaped Canada and the Canadian Development by early immigrants faced challenges they had to accomplish, the high challenges of discrimination, which, led to immigrants to fight back and work even harder, accepting many
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The main reason immigration was booming during the mid-1900s would be because of the Canadian Citizenship Act in 1947. A Canadian Council for Refugees stated in their timeline, “Canadian Citizenship Act adopted, creating a separate Canadian citizenship, distinct from British (Canada was the first Commonwealth country to do so)”. By having the Canadian Citizen Act in place, it allowed people to be classified as Canadians. The book Canadian Decades 1940s states, “Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King was the first Canadian to receive a citizenship certificate under the 1947 act”. This Act helped the government be aware whether a person was born in Canada or an immigrant. Which also allowed everyone to receive the same right to the ‘Canadian’ name. After the Canadian Citizenship Act, it leads to a major immigrant explosion. The book Canadian Decades 1940s also stated, “There was also a huge difference between the number of men and women seeking to become Canadian citizens”. This allowed the Canadian population to increase significantly not only by new coming immigrants but people starting families after settling in the new country. Lastly, the website Government of Canada stated in an article, “In 1971, Canada was the first country in the world to adopt multiculturalism as an official policy. By so doing, Canada affirmed the value and dignity of all Canadian citizens regardless of their racial or ethnic origins, their language, or their religious affiliation”. By Canada acting as an accepting country regardless of race, religion, or sex, this later gave them the title or being a ‘Multicultural
The main reason immigration was booming during the mid-1900s would be because of the Canadian Citizenship Act in 1947. A Canadian Council for Refugees stated in their timeline, “Canadian Citizenship Act adopted, creating a separate Canadian citizenship, distinct from British (Canada was the first Commonwealth country to do so)”. By having the Canadian Citizen Act in place, it allowed people to be classified as Canadians. The book Canadian Decades 1940s states, “Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King was the first Canadian to receive a citizenship certificate under the 1947 act”. This Act helped the government be aware whether a person was born in Canada or an immigrant. Which also allowed everyone to receive the same right to the ‘Canadian’ name. After the Canadian Citizenship Act, it leads to a major immigrant explosion. The book Canadian Decades 1940s also stated, “There was also a huge difference between the number of men and women seeking to become Canadian citizens”. This allowed the Canadian population to increase significantly not only by new coming immigrants but people starting families after settling in the new country. Lastly, the website Government of Canada stated in an article, “In 1971, Canada was the first country in the world to adopt multiculturalism as an official policy. By so doing, Canada affirmed the value and dignity of all Canadian citizens regardless of their racial or ethnic origins, their language, or their religious affiliation”. By Canada acting as an accepting country regardless of race, religion, or sex, this later gave them the title or being a ‘Multicultural