DCHP-3

landed

DCHP-2 (Oct 2016)
adj. — Administration

having full recognition as an immigrant to Canada, with rights resulting from it.

Type: 3. Semantic Change — The term was defined in the Immigration Act of 1910 (see the 1910 quotation). Note that land and landing were defined in the previous Immigration Act of 1906, although landed was not included (see the 1906 quotation). In other locations, landed usually denotes the possession of a tract of land. The term may also be used to refer to a person that has landed at a port or gone ashore. In Canada, landed more commonly refers to those immigrants with official recognition of immigration to Canada, which is today officially called permanent residency.
See also COD-2, s.v. "landed" (1), and Gage-3, "landed" (3), which are marked "Cdn.", ITP Nelson, s.v. "landed" (3), which is marked "Canadian", and OED-3, s.v. "landed", adj.2 (3), which is described as Canadian.

Quotations

1906
[(c.) The expression "land" or "landing," as applied to passengers or immigrants, means their admission (after having complied with the requirements of The Immigration Act), into Canada, otherwise than for inspection or treatment, or other temporary purpose provided for by this Act, or by any order in council, or proclamation, or regulation made thereunder;]
1910
(p) "land," "landed," or "landing," as applied to passengers or immigrants, means their lawful admission into Canada by an officer under this Act, otherwise than for inspection or treatment or other temporary purpose provided for by this Act; [...]
1931
Total immigration in the last three months was 5,322, compared with 21,905 in the corresponding three months a year ago. Immigration from the Continent of Europe in the last three months amounted to 1,001, composed of the wives and children of legally landed immigrants and a few others who had Canadian domicile and were returning from a visit.
1952
Canada makes no distinction between displaced persons and other classes of immigrants once they have been granted landed status after their arrival.
1962
He expressed the hope the end of the investigation will become the first step towards awarding confessed immigrants their landed status and right of sponsorship for qualified relatives to enter Canada.
1978
The department says they are being deported because they lied about the number of children they have in applying for landed status in Canada.
1983
It also says illegal immigrants could have a "ripple" effect as they became landed and able to bring in relatives.
2003
Now, way back in 1987 when I first became landed, the helpful clerk who processed my application, apparently thought I needed an "r" in Malene and inserted one on my Record of Landing (for those not immigrants and thus unfamiliar with the document, it's a large piece of unwieldy paper which, up until now, we've had to have stuck in our passports).
2013
"Can the minister tell the House how Lai Tong Sang, the Macao triad leader who received landed status in Canada, slipped through the stranglehold the minister has on organized crime?"

References

  • OED-3
  • COD-2
  • Gage-3
  • ITP Nelson