Insight July: Canada History

insight july: Louis: a black mark on Canada history, Insight July 23The negative aspects of Canada 1930s immigration policies related by Nova Scotia author Allison Lawlor , must be contrasted with Canada response half a century earlier to the desperate Jews who were fleeing anti-Semitic pogroms following the 1881 assassination of Czar Alexander II. After joining the broadly based Mansion House Committee in London, High Commissioner Alexander Tilloch Galt with the approval of Sir John A. Macdonald quickly arranged for some 340 impoverished Russian Jews to come to Winnipeg in 1882, according to Toronto Star. There were fewer than 2,500 Jews in the country at the time, and it was an astonishing rescue effort. Louis: a black mark on Canada history, Insight July 23The MS St. Article Continued Below Bernard M.L. Katz, Toronto The Morning Headlines Newsletter Delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up react-empty: 141 (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.