In 1891, the Baron de Hirsch Institute was established in Montreal to assist Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. The Institute played an important role in integrating the newcomers in their new environment. The following year, ICA created its first Canadian settlement in the province of Saskatchewan. It provided land, livestock and equipment. By 1919, ICA had founded or aided 5 main settlements with a population of 800. After World War II, a new scheme was started with families recruited in the Displaced Persons camps of Central Europe. Farms were bought for them in the fertile Niagara Peninsula in south Ontario, where they eventually became a prosperous little group, later enlarged by families who came to Canada from Hungary after 1956. By 1960, there were approximately 120 families farming in eastern Canada under the auspices of ICA.