Two men, two women and a yound girl sit on outdoor stairs in front of a wooden building. In the foreplan a man in a suit and tie sits beside a woman in a dress with a dog on her lap.

Loeffler refugee family in Edenbridge, Saskatchewan, 1939. Jewish immigration to Canada steadily decreased from the late 1920s to the end of WWII. Many settlers and refugees were either directed by the government or volunteered to travel to northern and remote areas of Canada to live and work.

Source: Library and Archives Canada/Credit: Louis Rosenberg/C-027525. © Expired