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1 2015, Archives, Calvin College Dutch Emigrant Families Assisted by the Immigration Committee of the Christian Reformed Church in North America 1946-1963 2 2015, Archives, Calvin College In 1946 the Synod of the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRC) appointed an Immigration Committee for Canada to provide information, guidance, and spiritual support to Dutch emigrants considering moving to Canada, through a program sponsored by both the Canadian and Dutch governments. The CRC was particularly interested in assisting those emigrants coming from the Gereformeerde Kerken Nederland (GKN), a sister denomination of the CRC. Of the nearly 150,000 emigrants to Canada after WW II, approximately 13 percent were members of the GKN. Beginning in 1946 those GKN members planning to move to Canada could send their names and family information to Christelijke Emigratie Centrale, Christian Emigration Central, and later Het Algemeen Bureau, or Central Bureau of the GKN in Utrecht headed, beginning in 1948, by Laernoes.
Utrecht headed, beginning in 1948, by G.M.A. Laernoes. The names and information were transferred to typed lists which were sent to the CRC committee in Canada, with copy to the Christian Reformed Church headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This committee, comprised of ministers and lay people (called fieldmen),
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