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Volume #13 - 206. | |
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CHAPTER IV IMMIGRATION | |
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PART
2 DISPLACED PERSONS | |
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SECTION
B BALTS | |
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DEA/5127-C-40 |
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Extract from Letter from Director of Immigration, Department of Mines and Resources to Economic Division, Department of Agriculture | |
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Ottawa,
January 13, 1947 | |
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In accordance with memorandum dated December 18th, received from the Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs, I am sending you the papers† relating to a plan for the formation of a Balt Settlement in Canada. The scheme as envisaged is recorded in detail and undoubtedly has been very carefully worked out by those responsible for the same. There are two serious objections from the Canadian viewpoint, namely, the kind of settlement proposed and the matter of finance. The plan is based on large group settlements totalling 4000 people living and operating under conditions that would tend to isolate them from other communities. Past experience and conditions in Canada do not favour group settlements or colonies and the plan in question would not, therefore, fit in with this country's general immigration policy. The elaborate scheme would require financial arrangements involving large sums of money and would, no doubt, prove to be an expensive method of settling immigrants in Canada. A.L. JOLLIFFE . . . | |
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