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chinese imigrated to canada
1788 was the year when some of the first chinese imigrated to canada when a group of 50 Chinese artisans accompanied Capt. John Meares to build a trading post on Vancouver Island. -
undergroundrail road
during the time of the Underground Railroad there was a massive migration but some people didnt see it like trhat because it was estimated that by 1850 ruffly 100,000 slaves had escaped via the rail road because it had so many hidhing spots and tunnels it was ideal for them to escape -
the golden year
1858 was a major year for immigration from china to canada, it was the first major migration of the chinese to canada due to the Asian gold prospectors who came to British Columbia. -
head tax
the chinese were forced to pay a 50 $ .head tax. for entering canada. no other imigrants had to do this because the poupuse was totry and get less chinese to come here due to the fact there were so many. -
acracultural immigrants
Clifford Sifton fulfilled his vision of peopling the prairies with agricultural immigrants. The immigrants he sought for the Canadian West were farmers (preferably from the U.S. or Britain, otherwise (northern)
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the immigration of jews to canada
138,000 Jews immigrated to Canada, almost all of them from refugee fleeing discrimination in Czarist Russia and Eastern Europe.
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indians that immigrated
4,700 Indians arrived in Vancouver -
chinese and japanese
Arrivals of Japanese and Chinese had increased (more than 2,300 Japanese arrived in B.C. -
black farmers
In 1910 a bunch of Black People wanted to come to Canada to flee from racism at their home.
