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His father brought hundreds of Jewish tailors to Canada - now he's stitching together their
'It opened the doors,' Larry Enkin says of the Tailor Project

Jones, Ryan Patrick
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/his-father-brought-2-000-jewish-tailors-to-canada-now-he-s-stitching-together-their-stories-1.4621317

Publisher:  CBC
Date Written:  17/04/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

Larry Enkin hopes to document the history of the immigrant tailors who came to Canada under the The Tailor Project. The project was initiated by his father Max Enkin following WWII, which brought approximately 2,000 displaced people from Europe to Canada to work in the clothing industry.

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Until 1947, Canadian immigration policy was extremely restrictive and the country did not have a refugee policy. Displaced people who had lost all of their money and property in war were evaluated in the same way as economic immigrants.

"European Jews, who were already considered among the least desirable immigrant groups, were essentially locked out due to this criteria," said Adara Goldberg, the incoming director of the Holocaust Resource Centre at Keane University in New Jersey.

This began to change in 1947 when the Canada amended its immigration policy in response to an unexpected economic boom. The growing economy created a labour shortage in a number of industries, including in the Jewish-dominated garment industry.

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