HIST-261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nuclear Family
6 Aug 2020
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When the second world war ended, roughly 14 million displaced persons (dps) were living in refugee camps in europe. The western allies assumed responsibility for re-settling half of the refugees, and the soviet. Many of these refugees were eastern europeans who had been displaced by, or fled from, the. Jewish holocaust survivors were also among the dps. Although the canadian government was initially cautious about how many immigrants to accept, refugees or not, immigration resumed in the aftermath of the second world war, bringing an end to a fifteen-year period with very low immigration. Ultimately, 1. 7 million immigrants came to canada between 1946-1957, a level of immigration not experienced since the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1947, the canadian federal government introduced a new immigration act that represented both a departure from, and a continuation of, past immigration policies.
