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Immigration and Farm Placements Branch [textual record]
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Record information Immigration and Farm Placements Branch [textual record]
Date:1943-1965Reference:R224-116-1-E, RG27-QType of material:Textual materialFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:159631Date(s):1943-1965Bilingual equivalent:Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:5.3 m of textual recordsLanguage of material:EnglishScope and content:Series consists of central registry files and financial records related to the medical treatment of immigrants created and/or maintained by the Immigration and Farm Placements Branch. The records involve particularly the Employment Service and Special Services Branches of the Labour Department.Additional name(s):Biography/Administrative history:Canada. Dept. of Labour. Immigration and Farm Placements Branch : Following the end of the Second World War, immigration to Canada increased dramatically. The Department of Labour was involved in various ways at several different levels through the Immigration and Farm Placements Branch. Essentially, if Canadian immigration authorities were responsible, under government policy and regulations, for determining whether particular individuals or families qualified for immigration to Canada, the Department of Labour was responsible for advising from its knowledge of the Canadian labour market on which occupations or sectors of the Canadian economy needed to be supplemented through immigration.
One important development during the postwar period was the creation of the Immigration-Labour Committee where officials from the two departments cooperated together in relation to their shared responsibility in the area of immigration to Canada. This cooperation took many forms including the sending of joint teams of officials to Europe after 1945 to interview displaced persons seeking to immigrate to Canada. The Immigration-Labour Committee, established in 1947, was superseded in 1951 by a Departmental Advisory Committee on Immigration (chaired by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration). Related work was undertaken by overseas workers (in cooperation with the Dept. of Citizenship and Immigration) and by the Special Services Branch (in cooperation with the National Employment Service and Federal-Provincial Farm Labour Committees). (Department of Labour, Annual Report, 1950) RG27 General InventoryAdditional information:Source of title:Title is based on the contents of the series.Accruals:No further accruals are expected.Source:GovernmentFormer archival reference no.:RG27-Q -
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