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First Canadian Citizenship ceremony on 3 January 1947 at the Supreme Court of Canada. Canadian citizenship, as a status separate from British nationality, was created by the Canadian Citizenship Act of 1946, which came into effect on 1 January 1947. (Although passed in 1946, it is often referred to as the "1947 Citizenship Act" because it came ...
Canadian citizenship was granted to individuals who: were born or naturalized in Canada but lost British subject status before the 1946 Act came into force, were non-local British subjects ordinarily resident in Canada but did not qualify as Canadian citizens when that status was created, were born outside Canada in the first generation to a ...
An Act passed later in 1946 amended the Immigration Act, in order to specify that a "Canadian citizen" was one as defined in The Canadian Citizenship Act. [ 71 ] These amendments would lead to later jurisprudence that addressed a transition that was problematic in certain cases. [ 72 ]
Bank of Canada Act, 1934; Public Works Construction Act, 1934; Succession to the Throne Act, 1937; National Housing Act, 1938; National Resources Mobilization Act, 1940; Family Allowance Act, 1945; Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946; Canadian Overseas Telecommunication Corporation Act, 1948
January 1 - Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect. Among other things this changed federal law such that Canadian women no longer lost their citizenship automatically if they married non-Canadians. [3] January 2 - Dominion of Newfoundland (later a province in 1949) switches to driving on the right from the left.
June 27 – Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 is enacted, defining a Canadian citizen and including a reference to being a British subject. July 15 – A royal commission investigates a Soviet spy ring in Canada. Secret information was found to be leaked and among the Canadians held suspect was the one parliamentary delegate of the Labor ...
A person born to a parent on military service outside Canada; Types of persons who lost their Canadian citizenship included the following (based on both the 1946 and 1977 Citizenship Acts): A second-generation born-abroad Canadian who did not apply to retain citizenship by their 28th birthday
Prior to 1947, Canadian law continued to refer to Canadian nationals as British subjects, [4] despite the country becoming independent from the United Kingdom in 1931. As the country shared the same person as its sovereign with the other countries of the Commonwealth, people immigrating from those states were not required to recite any oath upon immigration to Canada; those coming from a non ...