Word: fairclough
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...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's longtime aim in regulating immigration is to increase the population without diluting the British strain below its present 48%. This policy has no warmer proponent than Immigration Minister Ellen Fairclough, a member of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire and a descendant of a family of United Empire Loyalists who fled the American Revolution to remain under British rule in Canada. So to Minister Fairclough, the 1958 immigration statistics were frankly disturbing. For the first time since World War II, Britons failed to contribute the largest share of immigrants; they were outnumbered by Italians...
...seems that immigrants from Italy," said Minister Fairclough, "immediately they come to this land, want to bring out their brothers and sisters and other relatives." To put a brake on this Italian custom and help restore the old immigration pattern, the Cabinet last week adopted an order-in-council suspending the free immigration of Canadian residents' non-dependent relatives from Italy-not to mention the rest of Continental Europe (except France), Lebanon, Israel and Latin America...
...Minister best known abroad, the Prime Minister picked a Winnipeg lawyer, Gordon Minto Churchill, 58. To be Secretary of State (a grab-bag ministry that deals with such matters as relations between the federal and provincial governments), he brought in Canada's first woman Cabinet member: Mrs. Ellen Fairclough, a Hamilton, Ont. housewife and accountant...
Woman-to-Woman Talk. By August 1950, Eva was well enough to start at the Richard Fairclough Secondary Modern School. She wore the standard school uniform: navy blue gym slip and white blouse. That fall, Eva's knees felt cold: she said she was getting the aches again. By November, she was in bed, and her legs were so painful that her father had to build a wire cage so that the blankets would not lie across them...