Membership

The Society welcomes applications from anyone sharing our interests, activities, and objectives. Many of the current members are serving or retired personnel of Canadian departments and agencies responsible for delivering Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Programs but there are also academics and other members who share our focus on preserving the history of Canadian immigration.

Membership Fees

Annual memberships will now run from January 1 to December 31. Annual fees or donations can be paid by bank-to-bank INTERAC e-transfer using the email address info@cihs-shic.ca and indicate CIHS as the payee. In the email, please include your name and indicate whether it is a donation or annual or life membership payment so that you can be properly receipted. Of course, we will still accept cheques mailed to our corporate address.

Annual: $25 (Cdn $$)
Lifetime: $250 (Cdn $$)
Corporate: $2500 (Cdn $$)

Application

Please mail a completed membership form with your cheque for the preferred membership fee. Include your name, mailing address and e-mail address and indication whether we can send you the Bulletin electronically (our preference). The completed form must be mailed to:

Canadian Immigration Historical Society,
P.O. Box 4401, Station E,
Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B4

Services

At present, Members automatically receive a copy of the most recent published Bulletin. They are canvassed for assistance in relation to research projects; and they are invited to the annual dinner and General Meeting.

We are open to suggestions for establishing branches of the Society wherever interest in Canadian immigration and refugee history and our objectives warrant.

Bulletin 105 - June 2023

CIHS Bulletin 105 explores various aspects of Canada’s immigration settlement story. It opens with an overview of the Canadian government’s settlement program arrangements from the post-war program into the 1970s. (We have included one ministerial press release from 1948.) This issue also looks at how one CIHS member, then a manpower officer, perceived and delivered that program in Cambridge Ontario in the late 1970s. CIHS members have contributed two book reviews. Both books explore the authors’ reflections on their settlement pathways in Canada: one from Sri Lanka; the other from northern India. This issue also includes an overview and update about the Hearts of Freedom project and a report of CIHS donations to the Canadian Museum of Immigration History. Finally, there are sadly three new names in our in memoriam segment: Jean-Paul Delisle, Victor Majid and Dr. Robert J. Shalka.

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