In 1828, during the Great Migration to Canada, Britain had to pass the first legislative approval that she was responsible for the safety and well-being of migrants who leave the British Isles.
It was launched by the organization of passenger transport in the name of the law merchant ships.
Law limit on the number of passengers who can be transported on board the ship has been developed, as allocated to each of them space systems, as is the assumption that the provision of adequate means of subsistence for the passengers during the flight.
And now it looks to the 1828 law on the basis that it was the British colonial immigration legislation.
It was the work of Canadian citizenship in the foundation under the Immigration Act, 1910, to determine the British citizens who reside in Canada.
The other was the British citizens they have to get permission for landing in Canada. It was the work of a separate state "to Canadian citizens" under Canadian citizens Act, 1921, have been Canadian citizens defined as mentioned above, and their wives, and any children (those citizens) who did not get to Canada after he fathers.
After passing the Westminster legislation in 1931, the property ceased to be a British institution exclusively. Because of this, called on Canadians, and others who live in countries that called the Commonwealth bands name, citizens belonging Crown name.
However, in legal documents, continued use of the term "British citizen".
Canada is was the second country in what was called then the British Commonwealth name you establish its own nationality law in 1946, through the enactment of the Canadian Citizenship Act of 1946. This law secret from the first of January, 1947.
In order to obtain Canadian citizenship from the first From January 1947, he was a person must generally be a British citizen on that date, or to be an Indian or Eskimo, or to have arrived in Canada as an immigrant before that date.
According to this statement, a British citizen, in general, to any person from the United Kingdom, or colonies in that period, or any of the Commonwealth countries.
It was the possession is determined and has the status of citizenship Bartanih before 1947 through the United Kingdom law.
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