Wars create such situations....armies invade and the whole social order gets turned upside down...rich and poor ,the educated and the uneducated,the skilled  and unskilled ,run for survival .

Much like his equivalent at his age  after WWI, after the Russian Civil , after WWII , after the Hungarian revolution ...they arrived in the free world shorn of everything, wealth , prestige and family members.

Some roll over in despair , curl up and die....others dust themselves off and  adapt to their new reality ....his like after WWII were expected to work on the land in Canada, in forestry, in mining ...in whatever, there was no support system as today, no welfare.

Mackenzie King , in 1947, facing the influx of over a million , expected them to be assimilated into the English and French melting pot and become ' Canadians  ' speaking either language.

Sponsors were expected to take care of those that they sponsored.

King's policy goal was " to protect the standard of living of  Canadians".