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The #CdnImm and #CdnHist nerds are on bluesky.

I've opened an account there...

EDIT now to bridge things...

https://bsky.app/profile/sschwinghamer.bsky.social

Another great podcast from colleagues at Library & Archives Canada, on the #BlackHistory and #immigration underpinning the men who were railway porters in Canada.

https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng/collection/engage-learn/podcast/Pages/porter-talk-2.aspx

#racism #CdnHist #CdnImm

It's Labour Day.

I know I posted about this recently, but this reminder of how "guest worker" programs operate on the premise of labour unfreedom is important to read and act upon this Labour Day.

This report focuses on the Canadian case:

https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/g24/120/97/pdf/g2412097.pdf

Reducing people to economic units and work output invariably goes just as Terry Pratchett forecast...

#labor #labour #CdnImm #Immigration

There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’

‘It’s a lot more complicated than that -’

‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.

From Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

Lord Selkirk, 1817, on negotiating land use with First Nations:

"If a large quantity of goods were offered for the purchase it might be said that the temptation of immediate advantage had induced them to sacrifice their permanent interests. I would therefore purpose to them merely a small annual present, in the nature of a quit rent, or acknowledgment of their right"

Two centuries ago, colonizers could grasp the permanent interest and rights of First Nations to land...

#CdnHist #CdnImm

When they make your workplace out of Lego...

#CdnImm #CdnHist #Museums

A small Lego set presenting the facade of Pier 21's central office bay. It has the Canadian Museum of Immigration sign over the door.

@technicalotter

Here's a talk I gave on the railways controlling early immigration facilities in Halifax, NS, Canada. The associated article was due out last fall; the editor tells me it'll be out soon. Sigh.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7FB5WehLkvU

#CdnHist #CdnImm

Amazing. One of three Japanese men detained at the immigration hospital in Vancouver BC left a very polite letter (with a few critical lines) before his escape.

He and his fellows, all to be sent out due to trachoma, pried a padlock off a gate to a fire escape on a balcony, and fled.

#CdnImm #CdnHist

(source embedded in image)

Dear Doctor
[April] 26th [1906]
I write a few lines to state that I wish to express my thanks for all the many favours I have received at your hands from in Hospital.

I am very sorry that it will not soon recover my indisposition. A rumour is current that some Japanese should come back Fatherland in few days. It is a thousand pities that send into another country for my long-cherished hope being fulfilled then I determined to retire from this Hospital. I beg you will pardon which perhaps you shall think a rash conduct leads to failure. But the Condition to direct my body. It is true that "inspection of the eyes by Law" is unavoidable for the existence of a state, But (struck over, you do not) Japan has concluded an offensive and defensive tready with England, do you know that matter?

I am truly,

Y. Usuda

So #PrideMonth is rooted in protest and liberation.

As policies excluding members of the queer community get further entrenched in supposedly "free" countries, I'd invite you to reflect on the history of queer exclusion in Canadian immigration policy. It's one of the few places Canada actually spelled out in law the heterosexism that continues to make our country less than equitable and safe for all residents & citizens.

#CdnImm #CdnHist

https://pier21.ca/heterosexism-canadian-immigration-policy-1952-1978

From the 1950s to the 1970s, you couldn't enter Canada if you were "homosexual."

https://pier21.ca/heterosexism-canadian-immigration-policy-1952-1978

#CdnImm #CdnHist

Canadian Immigration Inspector job posting, 1938.

Two years of high school, good appearance, between 25-35 years old...

#CdnHist #CdnImm #histodons

Posting reads

One Immigration Inspector, Male, Department of Mines and Resources, Houlton-Woodstock Highway, N.B. Time limit for receiving applications May 16, 1938.

Qualifications Required: At least two years of high school education: with preferably office or other business experience; familiarity with the Immigration Act and Regulations and preferably experience in immigration work or inspectional work of a similar nature; quickness of perception; tact, good appearance and physical condition. Except in the case of those entitled to preference on account of service in the Great War, candidates must be between the ages of 25 and 35 years on the day of the written examination.

oh, wow!

Selected as one of the 75 finalists for the Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards - 2024 by @Canimmigrant and @WesternUnion!

Please vote for me at https://canadianimmigrant.ca/canadas-top-25-immigrants/vote

You can find my bio &vote box in the 3rd from last row #inspiring #cdnimm #NewfoundlandAndLabrador

If you work with the history (or present) of #immigration, the "Model Minority" myth is a super-problematic narrative that you've probably encountered, and maybe tried to counter.

Here's a good, accessible discussion of the myth and the harms it does adjacent marginalized communities:

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1.6950572

#CdnImm #CdnHist #AsianDiaspora

There are 10,000 asylum-seekers in Ontario post secondary education over the past three years, IRCC Minister Marc Miller tells TMU's The Dias today. #cdnimm

My colleague Dan Conlin added some new figures to our historical model of the immigrating facility at Pier 21 in Halifax NS.

I am particularly taken with his work making a '50s baby buggy for the immigration quarters!

Learn more about the space represented:

http://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/exploring-pier-21-immigration-quarters

http://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/medical-facilities-at-pier-21

#histodons #CdnImm #CdnHist

A 1/87 scale model pregnant woman with a tiny baby carriage are placed in a model of the immigration facility at Pier 21. They are on a white plastic floor, surrounded by cream-yellow model walls following the layout of the historic immigration quarters and hospital, where people could be accommodated or detained as appropriate.

Free March Break programs at the Canadian Museum of Immigration in Halifax, NS

#Museums #CdnImm #CdnHist #Parenting

https://pier21.ca/emera-presents-march-break-museum

Date : Du 9 au 17 mars 2024
Lieu : Événement en personne au Musée
Langue : Présenté en anglais
Coût : GRATUIT

Pendant le congé de mars, faites un voyage autour du monde au Musée canadien de l’immigration du Quai 21. L’entrée est gratuite toute la semaine du 9 au 17 mars.

Date: March 9 to 17, 2024
Location: In-person event at the Museum
Language: Presented in English
Cost: FREE

This March Break, take a trip around the world at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. Enjoy complimentary admission all week long from March 9 to 17.

https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6504909b-f218-4f6b-a421-f7fc85f8fb14@5694790a-ee7f-4dea-88c0-58988e5f2927

Today! Join me if you like to learn a little bit about the historical exclusion of queer immigrants from Canada.

Hosted by IRCC.

#CdnImm #CdnHist #histodons

Image: Arquives 1990-002/07P

Photograph of GATE (Gay Alliance Towards Equality) members, Brian Mossop, Randy Notte and Michael Riordon at the first protest against the Green Paper (a Canadian immigration policy statement). They are on the street in Toronto in 1975, dressed for cool weather. They are holding signs that read: "Take homosexualism out of the Immigration Act", "Take gays out of the Immigration Act", "Gay Alliance Towards Equality".

I'm doing an online talk about the "homosexual" exclusion that was written into Canadian immigration policy between the 1950s and the 1970s on Wednesday 21 February at 1430 Eastern. If you're interested, you can register:

https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6504909b-f218-4f6b-a421-f7fc85f8fb14@5694790a-ee7f-4dea-88c0-58988e5f2927

#CdnImm #CdnHist

Canada will not appeal dec re First generation limit #citizenship #law #cdnimm
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2024/01/canada-will-not-appeal-decision-that-strikes-down-first-generation-limit-to-canadian-citizenship-by-descent.html

On The Urgency of Admitting Japanese Expert Chick Sexers, 1934...

#CdnHist #CdnImm #histodons

I love that this is (a) objectively funny; (b) reveals provincial-federal tensions; (c) obliquely engaged with the racist exclusion of Japanese immigrants; (d) is "imperative to life BC poultry breeders," thus bringing the influence of labour and industry into our picture of immigration; and finally, (e) involves 1.3 million little yellow snertpuffs.

Telegraph (message telephoned!)

Vancouver BC

A L JOLLIFFE COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION OTTAWA ONT

YOUR FIFTY SIX FIFTY TWO TWENTY FIVE (the file number)

JAPANESE CHICK SEXING EXPERTS

UNDERSTAND MR LEON LADNER EX MP WIRING OUR MINISTER EMPHASIZING NECESSITY ALLOWING AT LEAST FOUR OF THESE JAPANESE TEMPORARY ADMISSION PROVINCIAL AUTHORITIES QUITE IN ACCORD WITH MOVEMENT FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH COLUMBIA CHICKS TO BE EXAMINED COMMENCING ARRIVAL THESE MEN NEXT WEEK IN ADDITION TO NINE

(stamp: Immigration and Colonization - Received Feb 12 1934)

HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES CHICKS CONTRACTED FOR EXAMINATION AT PACIFIC HIGHWAY OFFICE TEMPORARY ADMISSION FOUR CHICK SEXING EXPERTS IMPERATIVE TO LIFE BRITISH COLUMBIA POULTRY BREEDERS PLEASE WIRE COLLECT DEPARTMENTS FINAL DECISION

F W TAYLOR

Working on queer exclusion in immigration history again, came across a favourite little archival stumble-upon from previous research...

Museum of Vancouver protest button, 2012.51.1

#CdnHist #CdnImm #histodons

#cdnimm

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