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"Discrimination against Jews was indeed far from being restricted to Manitoba.

In the 1940s, Canada as a whole closed its doors to immigrants who were trying to flee the Nazi regime in Europe.

When asked how many Jews should be allowed in Canada, Frederick Blair, the director of immigration between 1936 and 1943, answered: "None is too many."

In 1939, the federal authorities refused more than 900 refugees who arrived on the German liner MS St. Louis, and who were trying to escape persecution in Europe.

"The government was really anti-Semitic," confirms Belle Jarniewski, director of the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada.

"The prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie [King] himself, bought all the lands surrounding his house because he did not want Jews to become his neighbours," she said.

Out of 150,000 immigrants Canada accepted during the Holocaust, between 1933 and 1945, there were 8,000 Jews."

While anti-Semitism reached a peak in Europe during the Second World War, we sometimes forget that it also spread in Canada through the 1930s. In Manitoba, nationalist groups were propogating Nazi ideology and Jews were excluded from private clubs and popular vacation spots.

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