Canadian Immigration

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Canadian Immigration

• Grade 9 geography
• Lester B Pearson

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Historical Waves of Immigration to Canada
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First Second Waves

• First Wave of Immigrants (1600s-1700s)65000
  people
• French colonists came to New France for fur trade
  or settle on land
• Second Wave of Immigrants (1760s-1800) 40 000
• Canada becomes British
• 1783 American Revolution Loyalists flee to
  Canada

1st refugees to Canada Empire Loyalists from the
rebel American states
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Historical Waves of Immigration to Canada
5th Wave
7th Wave
8th Wave
6th Wave
4th Wave
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Third Fourth Waves

• Third Wave of Immigrants (1815s-1850s) 800
  000 people
• Irish Scots fleeing poverty famine
• Lure of cheep land drew many from Britain

• Fourth Wave of Immigrants (1840s-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

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Historical Waves of Immigration to Canada
5th Wave
7th Wave
8th Wave
6th Wave
4th Wave
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Fifth Sixth Waves

• Fifth Wave of Immigrants (1900-1915s) 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 (1915s-1930s)
• -Western European immigrants leaving the economic
  hardships resulting from WWI
• - European Jews try to escape the Nazi
  persecution

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Historical Waves of Immigration to Canada
5th Wave
7th Wave
8th Wave
6th Wave
4th Wave
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Seventh Eighth Waves

• Seventh Wave of Immigrants (late 1940s-1960s)
• - Many Europeans leaving war torn Europe (ex.
  Italians, Dutch, Greeks), Eastern Europeans flee
  communism (ex. Hungarians, Czecs)

• Eighth Wave of Immigrants (1967-1980s)
• -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

1986- 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".
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Top 10 source countries for immigrants coming to
Canada Historically (up until 1981)

• United Kingdom
• Italy
• U.S.
• Germany
• Portugal
• Netherlands
• India
• Poland
• China
• Countries of the former Yugoslavia

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Where Canadian Immigrants come from 1921-2006
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Change in number of immigrants arriving to Canada
before after 1991
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The Top 10 countries of origin for immigrants to
Canada between 2001 and 2006

• China - 155,105
• India - 129,140
• Philippines - 77,880
• Pakistan - 57,630
• United States - 38,770
• South Korea - 35,450
• Romania - 28,080
• Iran - 27,600
• United Kingdom - 25,655
• 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.

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Immigration Patterns In Canada
http//www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/cp-census-immi
gration/index.html
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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)
• Class work question 3 a-d pg 222 in text