I’ll be giving an online lecture about the Tailor Project / Garment Workers Scheme on Wed. April 23, 4 p.m. EDT. Registration is required.

The Garment Workers’ Scheme / Tailor Project was approved by the Canadian government in 1947 in order to bring approximately 2,000 skilled tailors and dressmakers (with their families) to work in the garment industry in Canada. The program was largely funded by the Canadian Jewish Congress and organized by a group of Jewish industry leaders. A team of five men had the difficult task of choosing garment workers from displaced person’s (DP) camps across Germany and Austria for immigration to Canada.

Drawing on interviews and archival material, I’ll speak about the history and impact of this program to the Tailor Project families and to Canada as a whole.

For more info about the lecture, see: Anne Dublin on “The Tailor Project” – Classi Learning

For more info about the book, see: The Tailor Project – Second Story Press