"The kind of people Canada wants": Canada and the Displaced Persons, 1943-1953

In 1947 the federal government of Canada began a program to move European Displaced Persons (DP) out of the International Refugee Organization (IRO) camps in Germany and Austria. This program, designed to fill chronic labour shortages in Canada’s resource industries and contribute to a solution for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilmour, Julie Frances
Other Authors: Bothwell, Robert
Language:en_ca
Published: 2006
Subjects:
DP
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/29949