Clifford Sifton’s policy on immigration, as Minister of the Interior for the Liberal government of Prime Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier was one of the principal factors contributing to the increase in immigration to Canada during the years 1896-1905. Only Farmers Need Apply Clifford Sifton and the Laurier government desired to populate western Canada with farmers in […]
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by Karen Ford Wilson(Collingwood, Ontario, Canada) My father, William Ford emigrated to Canada on the Montroyal in 1929 under the BICA program. He was 19 years old. His home life in England had been unstable after his father, William Ford, moved to India and his Mother, Elizabeth (nee Dunning), sent all the children to live
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My Uncle Stanley Charles Lethbridge went to Canada and while my husband and I have been traveling here we visited Halifax Pier 21, I asked if my Uncle could be traced and I found the following information.. He travelled on the Megantic, arriving in Montreal 4th August 1929. He then lived courtesy of BICA at
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BICA boys by Murray Skan (Port Perry, ON) My father ( John ) age 14 and his brother (Herbert) aged 16 arrived in Quebec City on the Alaunia September 25, 1925 from Liverpool, England. Their immigration record lists their destination as British Immigration and Colonization Association, Montreal Quebec. It also lists the occupation they
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To Montreal, Canada via London, England The following story was submitted by Harold Berglas of Montreal. My Mother – Aida Moslow My Mother was born in London, England as Aide Moslow in 1916. Her father died in England about 2 years later and her mother took the kids home to Poland. In hindsight, that turned
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