HIS312H1 : Making 'New Canadians' Reading notes
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Making new canadians": social workers, women, and the reshaping of immigrant families. In the period before 1965, the immigrants were british or european. the immigrants who came after 1945 potentially had access to a fairly wide network or services associated with the postwar welfare state. aid offered by charitable agencies, churches and volunteer groups. in toronto, middle class women"s organizations like the young women"s christian association (ywca), the women"s christian temperance union (wctu) and the toronto junior league. clothing and food drives and baby clinics, dispatched volunteers to meet women arriving by train at union station. nationally and locally, the imperial order daughters of the empire (iode) was involved in www. notesolution. com citizenship work, educating immigrants in canadian government and encouraging them to become naturalized citizens. many local branches adopted" needy families who were then supplied with emergency funds had their house bills paid.
