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John Cabot lands somewhere on the East Coast of North America and claims it for King Henry VII
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In 1534, Jacques Cartier was the Frenchman who first began to explore further inland and set up colonies.
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The first French settlement was made in 1604 called "Acadie by Samuel de Champlain.
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After Champlain's founding of Quebec City in 1608, it became the capital of New France.
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Indentured servants and soldiers were sent to Canada along with young orphan girls to marry and populate New France becase there was few women there.
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The Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1775 led to the British taking control over what was New France and leading to a population of British people living in central Canada.
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The Underground railroad was a network of secret passage ways that help smuggle slaves to safety in Canada.
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When the American Revolution ended in 1783 many British loyalists left America to come and live in Canada.
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In the 1800's people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and immigrate to Canada. Do to crop failure, famine and other reasons.
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Ireland farmers had a great potato famine which causes them to leave Ireland and immigrate to Canada. Scotish people had to leave because they lost their homes due to the need for space for their sheep. Also British soliders moved to Canada because there was no war at the time so they needed jobs.
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from 1880 to 1914 Immigrants came primarily from Great Britain, Continental Europe and East Asia.
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Immigration briefly ceased to the West during the North West Rebellion of 1885
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in the 1880's, Chinese people had come to Canada to help build the Canadian Pacific Railway. Following this many Chinese began to move eastward, establishing Chinatowns in several of the larger Canadian cities.
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In 1906 the new immigration act declares that you can no longer enter Canada for free.
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Because of the war, many Europeans left Europe to live in Canada, to escape the war.