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Chapter EighteenChapter Eighteen

ImmigrationImmigrationand and MulticulturalisMulticulturalismm

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Jack Pickersgill (right), the federal minister responsible for

immigration in the St. Laurent government,

greets the dean of the faculty of forestry

engineering at the University of Sopron,

Hungary, in Montreal, 1957. Some 37 000 young

and highly skilled Hungarians, including the entire faculty and student

body of this faculty, arrived in Canada during

and immediately after the Hungarian uprising of

1956.

Champlain Marcil/National Archives of Canada/PA-147725.

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The Haim Abenhaim family, Sephardic Jewish

immigrants from Morocco, arriving in

Montreal, 1960. In the early 1970s, immigrants

from developing countries began

to come to Canada in significant numbers.

Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives/PC 2/1/7 A.4.

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This 1955 poster questions the colour

code applied to immigrants from within

the British Commonwealth.

National Archives of Canada. Photo by Kalman Kaplonsky, PA-139579.

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Immigrants as a Percentage of

Census Metropolitan Areas,

1991

Source: Adapted from Statistics Canada, 1991 Census of Canada, Canadian Social Trends (Summer 1993): 10, cat. no. 11-008. Reproduced by authority of the Minister of Industry, 1999.

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Sod-turning for Edmonton’s Hindu

Centre, 1976.

Provincial Archives of Alberta.

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Hockey legend Willie O’Ree, the first black

player in the NHL, chats with children

at the Harmony Brunch in East Preston, Nova Scotia, held to

commemorate the International Day for

the Elimination of Racial

Discrimination.

Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission.

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A recent graduating class of Jarvis Institute, Toronto.

Canadian Geographic, January/February 2001, pp. 40-41. Photo courtesy of David Trattles.