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The economic crisis of 1929, also referred to as the Great Depression, leads to major changes in Canadian immigration policy. The number of accepted immigrants is reduced by 80%. ...
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... was the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC)' War Orphans Project, which settled 1,123 Jewish youth across Canada. To help Canada's ... the government imposed a quota of 60% Jewish entries on the tailor and furrier programs. Thirty percent of Europe's refugees were Jews, yet ...
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... refugee youth arrived in the country through the War Orphans Project. Source: Montreal Holocaust Museum, 2016 Transcript: ... more than 1,800 men and women came on the so-called Tailors Project. Others came on farming, mining, construction, and lumber contracts. ...
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