----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:44 AM Subject: Re: [CAN-BC] Assisted Passage to Canada > Gosh we have a lot of Carol's! :-) > > Keep in mind that if they were British they may not > show up on any Canadian Immigaration records as they > did not need to go through full immigration. They > would have been free to come and go from Canada as > they pleased as they where British Subject's. I do not > recall when it was the British born had to start > clearing immigration to get into Canada but pretty > sure it was after 1935 - very possible when Canadian > citizenship was recognized in 1947? Up until that > point, Canadian's were also defined as British > subjects, both in Canada and abroad so I do not think > many offical records of comings and goings were kept. Not sure either, but it may have been with the Statute of Westminister in1931. My mother was a War Bride, who upon entry into Canada on10th Feb.1946, was considered a citizen of this country. Unfortunately War Brides, who wanted or needed passports post-death of Martin Luther King, had to prove Canadian citizenship. Due in part to King's assassin having obtained a fake Canadian passport, then going to the UK. If I recall correctly, USians needed to have a visa to enter the UK at that time, but of course Canadians (as British Subjects) didn't. My own mother didn't have too much trouble obtaining her passport, in 1968 (to visit me in Rosyth Scotland), as she had saved all her documents, passport etc from 1946, plus had her birth and marriage certs. My first passport, obtained in Jan.1967 and still possess, stated I was a British Subject. Not sure when that was dropped from our passports though. Perhaps when we got our own constitution? Toni, Ontario.