Nationality Act: Remembrance Day

Calgary Herald Dept: There is sadness, but it seems to me these services are a mostly positive reminder of the values Canadians share and have been prepared to defend. Very different from the sombre ceremonies of my childhood in England half a century ago, which were all about overwhelming grief and the loss of not one, but two generations of young men, according to Calgary Herald. The British government was acutely aware it didn't have the manpower to rebuild shattered cities and compete in the postwar economy. It wanted immigration to fill the gap. But 800 million potential immigrants, on that little island? What were they thinking and remembrance Day seems to have grown in importance over recent years, with thousands of people attending services Thursday to honour our men and women in uniform, particularly the 100,000 Canadians who died in the two world wars. Britain's war dead from the two world wars numbered 1.5 million, the same in France and Italy and far more in Germany. One immediate result of this bloodletting was a chronic shortage of labour. So much so that Britain passed a new Nationality Act in 1948 that gave 800 million citizens of its dissolving empire the right to live and work in the United Kingdom. As reported in the news.
@t overwhelming grief, postwar economy