Whence They Came Deportation from Canada 1900-1935
WhencelheyCame This page intentionally left blank Whence They Came Deportation from Canada 1900-1935 Barbara Roberts Foreword by Irving Abella University of Ottawa Press © University of Ottawa, 1988 Printed and bound in Canada ISBN 0-7766-0163-6 UN1VERSITE D'OTTAWA UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Roberts, Barbara Ann Whence they came: deportation from Canada, 1900-1935 Bibliography: p. ISBN 0-7766-0163-6 1. Deportation-Canada-History. 2. Canada-Emigration and immigration-Government policy-History. I. Title. JV7253.R62 1988 364.6'8 C88-090318-X Typeset in Caxton Book by Nancy Poirier Typesetting Limited Printed and bound by D.W. Friesen, Altona, Manitoba Design by Chris Jackson, Ottawa This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. CONTENTS FOREWORD Vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Xi 1 The Functions of Deportation 1 2 The Law and Deportation 11 3 Incidence and Patterns of Deportation 37 4 Developing the System, 18 90s-1920 53 5 The Alien Bolshevik Menace, 1910-1920s 71 6 The Bureaucracy Matures, 1920s-1935 99 7 Troublemakers and Communists, 1930-1935 125 8 "Shovelling Out" the Redundant, 1930-1935 159 9 "Purely Administrative Proceedings" 195 NOTES 203 APPENDIX Ministers Responsible for Immigration, 1867-1936 235 BIBLIOGRAPHY 237 This page intentionally left blank FOREWORD Canada is a peculiar nation. Peopled by immigrants, it is a country, paradoxically, which hates immigration. Every single public opinion survey over the past fifty years indicates that most Canadians - including by the way, most immigrants themselves - do not want any substantial increase in the number of people admitted to this country.
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