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Rebranding Canada - origins of Canadians multiculturalism policy 1945-1974
Where did this Canadian multiculturalism policy begin? Why? It seemed to start with the desire to increase French political participation but it became much, much more.
Commonwealth Prime Ministers as of 1944 - i.e. Mackenzie King (Canada) on the left, Jan Smuts (South Africa), Churchill (Britain), Peter Fraser (New Zealand), John Curtin (Australia)
Louis St.Laurent, Canada's first French-Canadian Prime Minister, 1948-1957
The Commonwealth flag beside Parliament in Ottawa
Broadly speaking, nationals of the United Kingdom, the Dominions, and the various British colonies had always shared a common citizenship status of "British subject". However, in 1946 the Canadian par... View MoreBroadly speaking, nationals of the United Kingdom, the Dominions, and the various British colonies had always shared a common citizenship status of "British subject". However, in 1946 the Canadian parliament passed the Canadian Citizenship Act, which established a separate Canadian citizenship. In response, a Commonwealth conference met in London in 1947, where it was agreed that each of the Commonwealth member states would be free to legislate for its own citizenship, while still retaining elements of a common Commonwealth citizenship.
The resulting legislation passed by the United Kingdom for itself and its colonies was the British Nationality Act 1948, which was introduced by a Labour government. It marked the first time that married British women gained independent nationality, regardless of the citizenship of their spouses.[2] Legislation passed in the other Commonwealth countries included Australia's Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948, New Zealand's British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948, and Southern Rhodesia's Southern Rhodesian Citizenship and British Nationality Act, 1949.
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