Francis Bowsfield

"'Foreign populations in our midst would constitute a millstone around our necks. The Chinaman, the Negro, the Slav, the Yamato: they are not our people, they do not belong to our civilisation and they will not strengthen our country; we are here for ourselves and not for them.'" Francis Bowsfield PC (1 September 1853 - 31 March 1933) was a Canadian colonial administrator, author, politician and statesman. During his career, he served as the tenth Minister of Interior Affairs. He developed the 'British North America Policy' which maintained the ethnic homogeneity of the Dominion of Canada, half of the continent of North America, for over a century between 1867-1977.

Bowsfield's administration governed the Royal Demesne for six years, between 1905-1911, during which time the Immigration Act of 1906 and Privy Council Orders No. 27 & No. 1324 were enshrined in law; these decrees prohibited the peoples of Africa and Asia from migrating to Canada. In the duration of his tenure, a federally-administrated, public, education system providing primary through tertiary education was established in the Provinces of Alberta, Manitoba & Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories. In addition, he and his subordinates recruited 1,947,000 British immigrants from the United Kingdom & the Dominions of Australia and New Zealand to colonise the country; his office coordinated their settlement and managed the development of western farmland by providing agricultural education, land grants and financial support to the colonists.

Personally, Bowsfield authored the Immigration Act of 1906, which prohibited the migration of the blind, the deaf, the physically disabled, epileptics, convicted felons, the mentally ill, the impoverished, the mute and prostitutes and which vested in His Majesty's Privy Council the prerogative to ban any specified demographic from entering the country; to the latter end, he authored Order-In-Council 1908-27 and Order-In-Council 1911-1324, effectively prohibiting the migration of all foreign ethnic groups to Canada. As coordinator of immigration to the Dominion, he managed the settlement of British emigrants to the country and provided land grants for the facilitation of agrarian development which rendered the Dominion the world's greatest agricultural producer.