British Immigration
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article30969
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Bulletin [Council for Social Service]
- Date
- 1950 December 10
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1950 December 10
- Issue
- 146
- Page
- 1-24 p.
- Notes
- "Canada needs more population in addition to that supplied through the natural increase, and therefore she needs a more generous policy on immigration. There is a need for a more rapid, steady immigration movement in order to help the population to catch up to the need for the development of our resources, and the need of greater production -- a production which will be beneficial not only to Canada, but to the Commonwealth as an entity in world affairs, and to the world at large. .... Our second proposition is that Canada needs, and we in the Church want, an increased British immigration. We want a more generous policy than the Government has thus far adopted. Why British ? Not for any narrow or self-righteous reasons but sheerly because politically and culturally the British can fit into our Canadian scene easily and can make the kind of contribution to which our destiny has called us -- a democratic, and to some degree, a Christian society: also because the British peoples fit into the industrial, agrarian and climatic set up which we have inherited or created. This is not to the prejudice of other immigration movements. .... Likewise the Church has fought the battles of minority groups -- of the Chinese residents here in Canada, denied the entry of their wives and families, of the Jews and their suffering people in Europe, of the East Indians, and of Negro students and other individuals. There has been no racial discrimination in the Church's approach to the problem of immigration". -- Foreword.
- Contents: Foreword / W.W. Judd -- Part 2 : In the British House of Commons [Note: The following debate occurred in the British House of Commons, probably in Committee, in the afternoon of June 13, 1950.]
- Subjects
- Canada - Emigration and immigration - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Great Britain - Emigration and immigration - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church work with immigrants - Anglican Church of Canada
- Location
- General Synod Archives