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Waves of Immigration to Canada

By brap69
  • Jan 1, 1000

    The Aboriginal People

    20 000-10 000BCE
    -settled across North America, developing many different ways of life based on different evironments. Aboriginal peoples are rumoured to have been following a food source into North America. Aboriginals are thought to have travelled across a land bridge from Asia to North America.

  • The French

    -1600-1760
    the french established permanent settlements at Port Royal in 1605 and Quebec in 1608. they came because in order to exploit the fur trade. A cool fact is that Britain and France have been rivals in N.A. for many years

  • The Great Migration

    1815-1850
    A great many people left their homes in Britain and other countries around Europe to Immigrate to Canada. Economic conditions in Britain and Europe in general were poor in the years after 1815. There was a great deal of unemployment. Many of the migrants leaving Britain and Europe from 1815 to 1850 from migration. 60% of the immigrants in Canada were British

  • Post - Conferation Immigration

    1867-1914
    Settlers from Ontario started moving to the West. The government made a series of treaties with the first nation people living between Ontario and B.C. Many of the immigrants were still coming from Britain Alberta and Saskatchewan were created in 1905

  • Post - war and mid twentieth century immigration

    1919-1969
    There wasn't a lot of immigration to Canada because of World War I. Many came to live in cities and work in industries Immigration was greatly reduced during the Great Depression of the 1930's and during World War II. After World War II, immigrants once found Canada a attractive country.

  • Recent immigration patterns

    Recent immigration patterns
    Europes economy had recovered from the devastation of World War II. As a result, fewer Europeans wished to immigrate to Canada The new groups of immigrants who came in the 1970s and 1970- present
    early 1980s, were mostly professionals, techinicians, managers, and entrepreneurs. Canda's Department of Employment and Immigration also looked into practices and procedures for refugees.