Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most U.S. immigrants want to keep their U.S. citizenship. Under immigration policy, Canada does not really mind, but hopes for a change of heart. Statistics show a small (1,356 last year) but growing percentage of Americans taking out Canadian citizenship...
...Catoctin Mountains, a helicopter's-eye look at Gettysburg, an Ike-guided visit to the Eisenhower farm, dinner with Ike at the White House correspondents' dinner celebrating Eisenhower's 69th birthday. From Washington, López Mateos planned to go to Chicago, New York, the Canadian capital of Ottawa and then to Lyndon Johnson's Texas ranch on his way home...
...There is nobody we would rather have. The Americans fit right in." So says Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister Ellen Fairclough, and this week her department is backing its sentiments with action. Two Canadian information offices are opening in Los Angeles and Minneapolis to supplement existing offices in New York and Chicago. Their purpose: to offer all help "short of money" to desirable U.S. citizens interested in moving to Canada on a permanent basis...
Canada wants U.S. immigrants; last year's total of 10,846 puts the U.S. in fourth place as a source of new Canadian residents, behind Italy, Britain and Germany. By any standards, the U.S. immigrant has a high quality. The day is over when U.S. farmers, homesteaders and adventurers (50,000 in 1920) hurried north to help open a new land. Last year, only 54 of those admitted were classed as laborers; the new U.S. immigrant is a stable, older man, usually with a family and a nest egg, who moves to Canada's densely populated areas...
...this task, the Institut got off to an appropriate multinational start. The 62 first-year enrollees (chosen from 160 applications) represent 14 countries, attend lectures in English, French and German, are taught by German, Belgian, French, Canadian, British, Italian, Dutch, Swiss and U.S. professors. To be accepted, each student has to speak two of the teaching languages, be able to understand a third. Initially, classes are being conducted in a corner of the palace, a French national monument, but Director General Willem Christopher Posthumus Meyjes, a Dutch diplomat, expects in four years to have a new campus outside Paris. Ultimate...