The Tailor Project – You Can Help

Canadian immigration policy was extremely restrictive until 1947 and displaced people who had lost everything in World War II  were not given any different status than other economic immigrants.  In 1947 Canada amended its immigration policy due to the postwar economic boom, which created a labor shortage including in the Jewish-dominated garment industry.

A tailor “scheme” resulted from garment industry leaders where tailoring firms agreed to hire skilled laborers on one year contracts and the Jewish community organizations chipped in funds to bring the workers to Canada and to house them.  Many were not “tailors” they had to qualify to sew a button—it was a way to get people out of the displaced persons camps and for the Canadian garment industry to get the people they needed to produce goods,

Full story here: https://jgstoronto.ca/the-tailor-project-you-can-help/