The Canadian Immigration Historical Society (CIHS) was formed in 1986, when seventeen people met and agreed upon the need for a non-partisan organization gathering historians, political scientists, sociologists, academics, government officials and private individuals to develop and promote interest in Canadian immigration and refugee matters and history.
The Society is a non-profit corporation registered as a charitable organization under the Income Tax Act of Canada.
Objectives
Our Society (CIHS) seeks to bring together individuals with an interest in immigration and refugee matters. We foster camaraderie, friendship and collegiality in pursuing the following objectives:
To support, encourage and promote research into the history of Canadian immigration and refugee questions;
To foster the collection and dissemination of that history;
To stimulate interest in and further the appreciation and understanding of the influence of immigration on Canada’s development and position in the world; and
To encourage people with immigration (and refugee) expertise to record their experiences for posterity.
The CIHS welcomes members of both Official Language communities in Canada and is committed over time, to use its limited resources to translate the main pages of its site. Contributions in either Official Language are more than welcome and, as appropriate, will be posted in the language the contributor has used.
The Political Persons and Oppressed Persons Designated Class: development of the policy and legal framework for this class and its implementation, focused on events in Latin America.
Articles from the CIHS’s copy of the 16 April 1910 issue of Canada Weekly.
These items offer our readers an opportunity to reflect on what aspects of Canada’s immigration story were of public interest at the time.
Other articles:
A full update on the Hearts of Freedom project
Details about 2024’s 25th anniversary of the Canadian Museum of Immigration History at Pier 21
A report on the 50th anniversary dinner held by some of the immigration foreign service group members who were part of the 1974 intake
A 1910 report about a Doukhobor group that settled very well in Verigin, Saskatchewan
