Intolerance Towards Immigrants In Canada

Social Studies 11
Nov 17, 2013

How has intolerance towards immigrants been an issue in Canada since 1914?

“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. Throughout the history of Canada there has always been an intolerance towards immigrants, There is a dream some people had for a utopian country, a country the is no longer defined by the color of your skin, the ways you act , the things you do or your beliefs, This dream of some people has still not been reached and most likely never will be, but Canada has greatly changed in many ways since 1914.the biggest problem is that most people do not realize that “Achievement has no color” ~ Abraham
Internment Camp were used to keep the Canadian Immigrants how were “potential treats”. In December 1914 a Prisoner of War Internment Camp opened at Camp Petawawa it was used for In housing 750 German, Austrian and Italian POWs. They occupied various buildings used by the militia in times of peace and were employed in road cutting, timber felling and ground clearing. The Internment Camp closed in May 1916.There were many of these camps used across Canada the 24 camps across Canada, 5,954 were of Austro-Hungarian origin, including 5,000 Ukrainians; 2,009 were Germans; 205 were Turks and 99, Bulgarians. All endured hunger and forced labour, helping to build some of Canada's best-known landmarks, such as Banff National Park. About 5,000 Ukrainian men and some women and children of Austro-Hungarian citizenship were kept in twenty-four internment camps and related work sites these were also known, at the time, as concentration camps. Many Austro-Hungarians were released in 1916 to help with the mounting labour shortage.
The Head taxes that were placed on the Chinese after the Canadian Pacific Railway was built served as a big problem to the Chinese who had worked on the railway. After the railway was built any of the Chinese men wanting to bring their families over had a very hard time due to the new law that was implied, any Chinese coming to Canada had to pay $50, which if that was money now it would be around $40,000 which was very hard to earn at that time. 1n 1923, after the Canadian government had made its money from the Chinese bringing their families over, the Government had made a new law completely. This Act was called “The Chinese Exclusion Act” and prohibited any and all Chinese People coming to Canada. With this law the Men who had not been able to bring their families over to Canada would no longer be allowed to pay for them to come over. The Minister of Immigration to Canada said “No Jews are too many” Anti-Semitism in Canada had a big role on the Jewish during the time that the needed help to get refuge from the War Going on in Germany. The Canadians turned down the Jewish who were looking to find a safe haven From the German's during WWII. The boat called the Saint Louis left port before 1932 and was Carrying 932 Jewish people from Europe it had travelled north up the eastern coast of North America Starting at Cuba and