choosing Canada as home
black loyalists : 1775 American Revolution Black Loyalists suffered discrimination they fought for the British for better time
Another war
the war of 1812 Black refugees
north to Canada
about 3500 loyalists
-many only received 0.1 hectares and had to work as cleaners and farmhands
loyalists came to north to Canada ( most in birch town)
fighting for Britain
promised freedom in a farm (40 hectares)
who came to canada and why - 1900s to today
silks: silks came to help build cities and develop new tech
to find work in the 1900s
Manitoba built hydroelectric plants
after world war II ended workers were needed to develop new resources British Columbia,Alberta and Saskatchewan
Canada's economy began to change in the 1900s
manufacturing
make cars,food,building,supplies and other products
garment industry
female immigrants from Asia
eastern Europe
skilled workers to design and sew new styles
construction
Greece,Italy and Poland
after world war II there was booms being made in Canada
fleeing war
1960s
50000 to 125000 Americans who did not want to fight came to Canada in the 1960s
wars in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
70000 people came to Canada , some making a dangerous journeys by boat
after a 19 year war in Cambodia,Laos and Vietnam new governments took over in 1975
Canada received a wave of immigrants from Asia in the late 1970s
political unrest
Hungarian Revolution 1956
40000
they disagreed with the government
in the 1950s and 1960s
world wars
from 1914 to 1918 many countries were at war with one another
some Europeans country borders were redrawn and the empires collapsed.
Britain and Russia chose to come to Canada
what was life like for polish immigrants 1800 to 1900
family life
men were seen as the head of the household in the families.
Grandmother,wives and daughters looked after the household tasks
both boys and girls helped clear the land and cared for crops and livestock
the children did sewed, cleaned, and cooked
in many polish homesteads children lived with their parents and grandparents in one home.
economic life
didnt have money to buy land and lifestock
some men had to work outside the family
everyone worked together to run a farm
sir Casimir Gzowski was a polish immigrant he was lieutenant governor of Ontario for only a year
history
they came from Poland and settled in areas of western Canada, mostly in Manitoba
these homesteaders received free or inexpensive land from the government
they became homesteaders and worked in the forestry and mining industries
from 1854 to 1901 a large wave of polish immigrants came to Canada
Why Did People Choose Canada as Their Home?
freedom and safety
wars
Multiculturalism 1971
in canada people are free to be what they are
political believes
opportunities
fleeing poverty and famine
Canada developing in the 1800s
mining,fishing
looking for a adventure,joining family
who came to Canada and why
gold rush
in the 1900s most of the miners returned to USA
boom towns
they stetted in Yukon
the Americans came in 1897
looking for work
teachers
teachers( from Britain and the USA)
government begins funding schools
forestry works
Finnish,Irish,Russian and Scottish
remote lumber camps,chop trees, sent lumber to mill
lumber was needed for new building and other goods
farmers
making farms/clearing the land
1800s immigrants from European
war of 1812
British gov encourages people to settle after the war
the underground railroad
1840s and 1860s
abolitionists helped 30000 escape on the underground railway
slavery illegal in the 1800s
looking for land
red river colony
metis were not contused about the land
Scottish farmers forced from farms, new farms and flooding
