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Underground Railroad Immigrants.
It was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century enslaved people of African decent -
Grosse-Isle Quarantine.
The Grosse-Isle Quarantine was used to separate people who are sick from the ones who are not. ships would stop here and let people who are sick off to live out the rest of their days on this island -
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Irish emigrates: The Potato Famine.
Irish people emigrated from Ireland to Canada because the Potato Famine wiped out around 1 million Irish people. -
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Frank Oliver
He became the new minister of the interior. His first act was the Immigration Act of 1906. He died in 1933 -
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Sir Clifford Sifton
He was the minister of the Interior. he pursued immigrants from all over Europe to come to western canada -
The First Immigration Act
Canada First opened their doors to foreign people. -
The Dominion Lands' Act
Settlers who were 21 years or older can get 160 acres for the price of a $10 registration fee. In return they had to live on the land for 3 years, cultivate 30 acres of land and build a permanent building -
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Gold Mountain
The Gold Mountain was the Chinese name for a mountain on the west side of British Columbia which encouraged Chinese immigrants to immigrate to Canada. -
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CPR Construction
Chinese Immigrants came to Canada in search of a better life. They became employed by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. The workplace hazards were unbelievably high and for every 1 km or railway built, 1 worker died. -
Chinese Head Tax
On July 20, 1885 the Canadian Government introduced the Chinese Head Tax was a tax that you had to pay for every Chinese immigrant who entered Canada, it was used to discourage Chinese immigration -
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Continental Europe Immigration
Europeans during this time were deprived of sufficient land and had high taxes to be paid. If they came to Canada they were greeted with a lot of open prairies available and an increasing value for wheat -
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Chinese Discrimination.
Chinese immigrants were treated poorly and rudely judged by Canadians. Many people thought the Chinese were useless after they were done building the railway. -
Immigration Act Of 1906
It increased the goverments power to deport ceartain ceartain people and decrease the landing money that immagrantes needed to land in Canada -
Anti-Asiatic Riot
On September 6, 1907, 4700 Asians arrived in Vancouver and the people of British Columbia reacted drastically and an "Anti-Asiatic Parade" which ended in a riot. -
The Continuous-Journey Regulation
A new amendment known as the "Continuous-Journey Regulation" came into place that ended up disabling all immigrants from India. It required all immigrants to travel on a continuous journey. -
Immigration Act of 1910
This act to give the cabinet authority over races unsuited for climates in Canada. It gave government power to deport anarchists. -
Blocking Black People Immigrating
When black Oklahoman farmers wanted to move to Canada to escape racism at home, the government disscused whether to let them in or not. Many boards of trade and the Edmonton Municipal Council called Ottawa to block black immigration. In the end, it was deemed that "any immigrant belonging to the Negro race, which race is proclaimed unsuitable to the
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The Municipal Council
The Municipal Council tried to exclude black people from Canada -
The Komagata Maru incident
It was when a Japanese steamship traveled from Japan to Vancouver. It was carrying 376 passengers but out of them only 20 of them were allowed to enter and the ship was forced to turn around. -
Internment of Ukranian Canadians
At the beginning of World War 1, people of Ukrainian and German descent were arrested and sent to camps because of their identity. Canada was at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary and Part of Ukraine fell within enemy territory. Canada's government made the arrests under the war measures act,
