SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Canadian Citizenship Act 1946, Canadian Pacific Railway, Anti-Communism
20 Apr 2013
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Governing trouble and the making of a good citizen. Key principles: political self determination, equality between sovereign states, principle of non intervention. Imagined communities : states were assumed to correspond to nations groups of people united by language and culture. Few immigrants before 1896: in face a lot of people emigrates to us in search of labour (us restricted this immigration in 1920s. 3 models of integration: anglo french conformity: anyone to come had to be french (catholic) or english (protestant) (prior to 1945, the melting pot, pluralism/multiculturalism (post 1 945) Only farmers need apply - farming the prairies and the west. Canadian immigration act of 1910:gave the canadian government the power to prohibit the entry of immigrants belonging to any race deemed unsuited to the climate or requirements of. Non-preferred and not acceptable : visible minorities- laws and regulations were issued to prevent their coming to canada.
