#dangerous foreigners

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“ALL ITALIANS ‘whose activities give ground for suspicion’ are being rounded up across Canada by R.C.M.P. on authority from Ottawa. A large but orderly crowd looks on as buses wait to take Italians from police headquarters in Montreal.” - from the Toronto Star. June 12, 1940. Page 21.

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"FOREIGN INFLUX MUST BE WATCHED," Ottawa Journal. October 21, 1913. Page 14. ---- Keynote of Interesting Thanksgiving Sermon by Rev. T. J. Thompson. ---- An excellent Thanksgiving service, setting forth the record of the past year and emphasizing the dangers which Canadians must guard against while their nation is prospering, was delivered by Rev. T. J. Thompson, pastor of the Glebe Presbyterian church, in the new Chalmers Presbyterian church yesterday morning.

Despite the inclement weather, large numbers of the congregation were present to hear the first Thanksgiving service in the new edifice. Rev. J. H. Turnbull conducted the service.

In his discourse Rev. Mr. Thompson pointed out that Canada had an additional peril to guard against, which was caused by the influx into Canada of people of foreign tongues and different ideals and morals.

"The changes that have come over Canada and the Canadian people in past years," was the subject of an excellent address to the Y. P. A. delivered by Rev. Dr. Moore last evening. There were also several good addresses by the members of the Y. P. A. on the subject, "Why I am proud of being a Canadian."

Mr. J. D. Omond presided, and addresses were given by Messrs, Collingood and H. Fraser.

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"Court Told Youth Plans To Renounce Britain, Be German," Windsor Star. June 25, 1943. Page 3. ---- Refusal of Lambert G. Kropp, of 1533 Goyeau street, to submit himself for medical examination in accordance with National Selective Service mobilization regulations, resulted in Magistrate D. M. Brodie to-day in city police court directing that the youth be delivered to the military authorities after he has served 30 days in jail. He also was fined $25 and costs or in default an additional 30 days in jail.

German-born and a native of Danzig, 20-year-old Kropp came to Canada 15 years ago at the age of five years with his parents and became a Canadian citizen. Two of his brothers are in internment camps.

In passing sentence, Magistrate Brodie said: "Although by law the accused is a British subject he was born in Danzig and has stated that he still feels by blood to be a German and intends to renounce his British citizenship as soon as he arrives at the age of 21 years, said citizenship having been conferred on him by reason of his father's application for naturalization."

Kropp pleaded guilty when his case was called in court. He was defended by N. J. Riordan. The investigation was made and the information laid by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

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"AUSTRIAN ARRESTED," Toronto World. May 16, 1918. Page 4. ---- Charged with a breach of the Immigration Act, Controk Protzek, an Austrian living at 73 Edward street, was taken into custody by the police last night. He will go before a magistrate this morning.

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“ROAD GANG EMPLOYEE TO SERVE MONTH FOR SEDITION,” Porcupine Advance (Timmins). November 24, 1932. Page 2.1.   ---- Amadeo Bonetti, a Swiss who has been in Canada for ten years, and who was arrested after trouble last May at Moore Lake Camp where he had been working with one of the construction gangs on the Trans-Canada highway, was last week sentenced to one month in jail on a charge of making seditious utterances. The accused pleaded guilty and said he was sorry and that his statements had been made in a temper. The fact that the seditious talk came close to helping along a serious situation was not lost sight of by the court and Mr. Justice Wright who tried the case at Pembroke while agreeing with the crown prosecutor, said that he felt that some punishment should be imposed. The month's term was then imposed, this short sentence being no doubt due to the fact that the man had been in jail for six months awaiting trial. The man seems to have been the victim of the agitation and propaganda carried on by aliens in the country for several years. His case should be a warning to all foolish enough to listen to these alien agitators. At the Moore Lake Camp there was a sort of Soviet uprising with talk of pulling down the Union Jack and stepping on it, throwing off all those in authority and all the other disloyal stuff talked about by the group of alien agitators. Bonetti pleaded guilty, and his counsel asked for leniency, pointing cut that he had already been in jail for six months, that he had been a model prisoner in jail, and that though in Canada for ten years he had never been in trouble before. Peter White, crown porsecutor, said he felt it was not a case requiring exemplary punishment. He believed the utterances had been made in a fit of temper, and he was quite agreeable to a lenient sentence, and did not ask for deportation.

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“Oshawa Family To Be Deported,” Kingston Whig-Standard. March 14, 1932. Page 12. ---- Went to Albany to Get Work — Alfred Lee Is 28 --- ALBANY, N.Y., March 14 — A young Oshawa father, who with his wife and three-year-old child walked most of the way from Toronto to Albany in search of work, will be deported as an undesirable alien. 

He is Alfred Lee, 28. While he is held in the Albany County Jail, while his deportation is arranged, charitable organisations are carrying for the mother and the baby. They were reported ill and scantily clad when they reached Albany, where Lee said he had been told work was plentiful. 

A charitable organization found that his father could have helped the young man had Lee appealed to him. The parent is willing to care for the family. 

The Lees crossed the border at Osdensburg. They hitchhiked to Syracuse. Work could not be found there, so they walked and hitch-hiked to Albany. After a week in a cheap rooming house, they appealed to an organization. 

Lee was arraigned before United States commissioner Lester T. Hubbard, after his case passed into the hands of Patrick J. Devlin, Immigration Inspector. Nora, Lee's wife, is 20.

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“OWNERS FOUND FOR ALL THE BICYCLES,” Sault Star. May 22, 1918. Page 1. ---- Fearing he would be discovered when the registration of all the man and woman power of Canada was made, Andrew Martzniuk, an Austrian who has not reported to the police for the past two years, voluntarily gave himself up this morning in police court. He was fined $30 and costs.

All the bicycles which were recovered by the police which are said to have been stolen by the trio of young men who were rounded up by the police in the vicinity of MacLennan yesterday have been reclaimed. The practice of leaving bicycles on the front verandahs and at side entrances to homes, the police think, is a temptation to those who have the failing of wanting joy rides occasionally. Leroy Carnegie, Paul Servant, and Joseph Deschamps were the accused parties and they were sentenced to three months in the Ontario Reformatory with the option of enlisting if they wished to do so. 

George Alexander, a Russian, together with Alex Krozeski, an Austrian, who runs a bakery business in the west end of the city, were arraigned on charges of stealing and endeavoring to secure money from a trunk, the property of a patient in the General Hospital. The court was not ready to go on with the case today, so it was adjourned untll May 30 and bail was fixed in Kroseski’s case for $1000 cash and in Alexander's case at $500 cash and $1000 security.

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“TWO YEAR SENTENCE ON ASSAULT CHARGE,” Sault Star. May 4, 1918. Page 8.  ----- Mike Rodonski a Russian, who resided on Cathcart street and is a shoemaker by trade was arraigned In police court yesterday before Magistrate Elliott on two charges of indecent assault. He was sentenced to two years in Kingston penitentiary on each charge the sentences to run consecutively. 

John Donijonich, an Austrian, was charged with trying to leave the Sault without permission having purchased a ticket at the railway station, He was found hiding around the C.P,R yards. $50 and costs was the sentence Imposed.

Harry Villeneuve was arrested under the Military Service Act and in police court produced a birth certificate for one named Amyot and the magistrate declined to accept the document as genuine and Villeneuve was turned over to the military authorities. 

Lizzie Bettoia was fined $50 and costs for smuggling liquor into Canada on May 1, the charge being laid under the Customs Act. 

Frank Kloskl was found guilty under the new Labor Act of not being regularly employed and was fined $10 and costs.

[AL: Rodonski had a single offence against the penitentiary rules, worked in a ‘trusty’ gang outside the walls, and was released in November 1919.]