[UA] American attitudes and things

[David Boatright]

For a long period the U.S. had an open door policy on  immirgation where
ships packed with immigrants from the same country and possibly even from
the same city turned up to be filtered through Ellis Island.

Did Canada ever have such a period.  In fact according to the following
you could not even call  yourself a  Candaian  citizen until after WWII.


"Canada was the second nation in the then British
Commonwealth<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations>to
establish its own nationality law in 1946, with the enactment of the
Canadian
Citizenship Act
1946<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Citizenship_Act_1946>.
This took effect on January 1
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1>,
1947<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947>.
In order to acquire Canadian citizenship on 1 January 1947 one generally had
to be a British subject <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_subject> on
that date, an Indian or Eskimo, or had been admitted to Canada as landed
immigrants before that date."

I am not sure how French Canadians fir into this.
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