This website will help you to learn about immigration and immigration policy in Canada after
Confederation and before the First World War.

Immigration means that people leave their homelands and go to live in another country
permanently. These people are called immigrants in the new country.

Immigration policy is made up of the laws of a government that tell people in other countries
what they must do to be able to live in that country. Immigration policies change when the
government decides it needs more or fewer people in the country.