Canadian Immigration Grade 9 geography Lester B Pearson
Historical Waves of Immigration to Canada
First & Second Waves First Wave of Immigrants (1600’s- 1700’s):~65000 people First Wave of Immigrants (1600’s- 1700’s):~65000 people - French colonists came to New France for fur trade or settle on land Second Wave of Immigrants (1760’s- 1800): ~ Canada becomes British American Revolution… Loyalists flee to Canada 1 st refugees to Canada: Empire Loyalists from the rebel American states
Historical Waves of Immigration to Canada
Third & Fourth Waves Third Wave of Immigrants (1815’s- 1850’s): ~ people Third Wave of Immigrants (1815’s- 1850’s): ~ people - Irish & Scots fleeing poverty & famine - Lure of cheep land drew many from Britain Fourth Wave of Immigrants (1840’s-1891): Fourth Wave of Immigrants (1840’s-1891): - Black Americans fleeing slavery - Dominion Lands Act (1872) granted free land to settlers +21 years - People fleeing persecution & war (ex. Mennonites) - Gold rushes in BC/Yukon and building of railway attracts American, European and Chinese workers
Historical Waves of Immigration to Canada
Fifth & Sixth Waves Fifth Wave of Immigrants ( ’s): over 750,000 Fifth Wave of Immigrants ( ’s): over 750,000 - Many arrived from Central, Northern & Eastern Europe - Some fled conflicts, while cheep agricultural land attracted others - Large numbers settled in Western Canada - Restrictive laws start, preventing many non-white immigrants to enter into Canada (ex. Chinese Head Tax) Sixth Wave of Immigrants (1915’s-1930s): Sixth Wave of Immigrants (1915’s-1930s): - Western European immigrants leaving the economic hardships resulting from WWI - European Jews try to escape the Nazi persecution
Historical Waves of Immigration to Canada
Seventh & Eighth Waves Seventh Wave of Immigrants (late 1940s- 1960’s): Seventh Wave of Immigrants (late 1940s- 1960’s): - Many Europeans leaving war torn Europe (ex. Italians, Dutch, Greeks), Eastern Europeans flee communism (ex. Hungarians, Czecs) Eighth Wave of Immigrants ( s): Eighth Wave of Immigrants ( s): - - Points system was incorporated into the Immigration Regulations. Racial discrimination was removed. - Refugees arrive from conflicts or persecution in Vietnam, Chile, East Africa, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, Laos, Cambodia, Central America, and Eastern Europe - Vietnam War Draft Dodgers escape from USA The people of Canada were awarded the Nansen medal by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, in "recognition of their major and sustained contribution to the cause of refugees".
Top 10 source countries for immigrants coming to Canada Historically (up until 1981): 1.United Kingdom 2.Italy 3.U.S. 4.Germany 5.Portugal 6.Netherlands 7.India 8.Poland 9.China 10.Countries of the former Yugoslavia
Where Canadian Immigrants come from
Change in number of immigrants arriving to Canada before & after 1991
The Top 10 countries of origin for immigrants to Canada between 2001 and China - 155,105 2.India - 129,140 3.Philippines - 77,880 4.Pakistan - 57,630 5.United States - 38,770 6.South Korea - 35,450 7.Romania - 28,080 8.Iran - 27,600 9.United Kingdom - 25, Colombia - 25,310 Between 2001 and 2006, Canada admitted 1.1 million immigrants. For the first time in 75 years, one in five Canadian residents were born outside the country. Canada's per-capita immigration rate is roughly double that of the United States.
Immigration Patterns In Canada -census-immigration/index.html
Class work/Homework Homework: Ask your parents when your different family members first immigrated to Canada. Find out who they were, where they came from, and approximately when they came to Canada. (will need for Thurs) Homework: Ask your parents when your different family members first immigrated to Canada. Find out who they were, where they came from, and approximately when they came to Canada. (will need for Thurs) Class work: question 3 a-d pg 222 in text Class work: question 3 a-d pg 222 in text