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Nov 27, 1500
Fur traders
Men from Europe come to Canada to trade furs with the first nations people. -
French and British
Around 1604 there were two countries immigating to Canada, The French and the English. -
underground railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves from the United States to escape to free states and Canada. -
The Great Migration
“The Great Migration” of British immigrants from the USA to Canada between 1815 and 1850. -
Great Northern Railway
From around 1880 to 1885 roughly 17,000 Chinese labourers helped build the great norther railway. There was a Chinese head tax forcing any Chinese person coming to live in Canada had to pay money. -
Settlements
Attempts to form permanent settlement colonies west of the Great Lakes waqs difficault but once they started to make the railroad more people started to move west. I the United Kingdom and continental Europe threre were campains to try and bring people to the Canadian west. -
restrict immigration from India
Around 1908 no one from India was able to come to Canada, in 1914 a steam ship form india carrying roughly 340 Indian people was told to leave Candian waters and was no able to land in Canada. -
German`s in Vancover
Until World War I, Vancouver was a major centre of German. Germans were a huge number of none english people in Vancover intill around 1980 that was over taken by the Chinese. -
Communist Party
The Communist Party was made illegal under the Criminal Code. Even naturalized immigrants who were members of the Party could have their citizenship revoked and be deported. -
Chinese relaxment
After the Tiananmen Square massacre, the government relaxed requirements for Chinese in Canada. Roughly 8,000 acquired permanent residence,
