41,873 Jewish immigrants arrived in Canada during the last ten years and received aid of one kind or another from the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society of Canada, says the tenth annual report of the Society which has just been published here.
3,507 Jewish refugees stranded in Roumania and various European ports were brought to Canada, the report further reveals. 2,762 immigrants who were detained at Canadian and overseas ports were admitted to Canada through the efforts of the Society, and of this number, only 276 were deported. Close on 180,000 dollars were expended in relief to Jewish immigrants arriving in Canada during the last ten years, it is stated in the report.
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