The foundation of sources for the study of the Canadian immigration policy relating to the Ukrainian immigrants in 1918 – 1939
The foundation of sources for the study of the Canadian immigration policy relating to the Ukrainian immigrants in 1918 – 1939

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzed and systematized a number of sources on the history of the Canadian immigration policy in the interwar period which had an impact on the political, social, economic, spiritual and household spheres on the life and work of the Ukrainian people in the Diaspora. To highlight the nature of immigration policy in Canada not only documentary sources (laws and by-laws, recordkeeping documents), but also official and unofficial press, memoirs, correspondence, statistical data, etc. were involved. When taken together it reflects the influence of the lawmaking on the nature and amount of resettlement flows from Ukraine and the condition of the Ukrainian immigrants. While writing this article, methods of searching and selection of sources, their analysis and synthesis, systematization and classification were used. Besides, criticism of chosen sources with the estimation of their content, objectivity and ascertainment of the significance for the investigation of the immigration policy of Canada concerning the Ukrainian immigrants in 1918 – 1939s were also utilized in the article. Information potential of archival and published materials within the indicated field has been defined and the significance of the presented facts for scientists has been shown. The importance of a complex use of the sources in the research questions of immigration policy in Canada in 1918 – 1939s was grounded in the conclusion.

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