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immigration shed 
a building equipped to shelter immigrants newly arrived in the country.
See also: emigrant depot emigrant shed
- 1882 The Grand Trunk station and sheds and the Dominion, Quebec and Ontario immigration sheds at Levis were burned last Saturday.
- 1926 Altogether, the immigrant is seldom more than two or three hours at the immigration sheds.
- 1932 The ten active working class fighters . . . are now putting in their fourth month in the immigration detention shed in Halifax.
- 1882 The Grand Trunk station and sheds and the Dominion, Quebec and Ontario immigration sheds at Levis were burned last Saturday.