With all the talk of refugees lately we thought this was an interesting anniversary.
On this day in Canadian history, in 1960, our country celebrated the arrival of Danish immigrant Annette Toft, who just happened to be Canada’s two-millionth immigrant since the end of the Second World War.
Toft was one of 104,111 immigrants who arrived that year and was part of a broader surge of people who had departed for Canada in the wake of the Second World War.
She was just 16 and arrived aboard an ocean liner and was greeted by her father, who arrived two months earlier.
There are four categories of immigrants coming to Canada.
- Family class (closely related persons of Canadian residents living in Canada),
- Economic immigrants (skilled workers and business people),
- Others (people accepted as immigrants for humanitarian or compassionate reasons) and
- Refugees (people who are escaping persecution, torture or cruel and unusual punishment).
