choosing Canada as home

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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