immigration shed

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a building equipped to shelter immigrants newly arrived in the country.

Quotations

1882

The Grand Trunk station and sheds and the Dominion, Quebec and Ontario immigration sheds at Levis were burned last Saturday.

1926

Altogether, the immigrant is seldom more than two or three hours at the immigration sheds.

1932

The ten active working class fighters . . . are now putting in their fourth month in the immigration detention shed in Halifax.