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2. Immigration through Order-in-Council Visa

   ... Lecours. [Logo for Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine ethnologique] Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, copyright ...

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3. Appointment of a Commissioner of the Refugee Camps in Canada

   An Order in Council nominates Colonel Fordham, a lawyer from Niagara Falls, himself a prisoner of war during the First World War, to the position of Commissioner of Refugee Camps. The jurisdiction of the three remaining internment camps is...

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4. War Orphans Project

   Order-in-Council 1647 grants permission for Jewish war orphans to enter Canada. Between 1947 and 1949, 1,123 Jewish orphans come to Canada as part of the War Orphans Project. As stipulated by the government, the Jewish community assumes full...

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5. Ottawa

   At the beginning of the 20 th century, Ottawa's Jewish community had about 400 people, nearly half of which lived in the ByWard Market in Lowertown. The population grew quickly over the next two decades. In 1921, the Jewish Immigration Aid...

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6. Ottawa

   During the Holocaust , the Canadian Jewish Congress joined forces with other refugee advocacy groups and prominent non-Jews – including Canada's first female Senator Cairine Wilson – to create the Canadian National Committee on Refugees. The...

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