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1969 BCE
immigration
Canada signed the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, and its Protocol, agreeing not to return a person to their country of origin if that person had grounds to fear persecution. -
historical immigration patterns
arrived in 1641, bringing immigrants to canada. -
canadian immigrants
the Canadian immigrants came over because of the free health care 3,000 Black Loyalists, among them freemen and slaves, fled the oppression of the American Revolution and came to Canada. -
where they went
1781: Butler’s Rangers, a military unit loyal to the Crown and based at Fort Niagara, settled some of the first Loyalist refugees from the United States in the Niagara peninsula, along the northern shores of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. 1783: Sir Guy Carleton, Governor of the British Province of Quebec, and later to become Lord Dorchester, safely transported 35,000 Loyalist refugees from New York to Nova Scotia. Some settled in Quebec, and others in Kingston and Adolphustown in Ontario. -
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why they came
1781: Butler’s Rangers, a military unit loyal to the Crown and based at Fort Niagara, settled some of the first Loyalist refugees from the United States in the Niagara peninsula, along the northern shores of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. -
immigration
Thousands of persecuted Jews, fleeing pogroms in the Pale of Settlement, sought refuge in Canada.