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John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explore who landed in West America, discovering Newfoundland, and claiming the land for the King Henry VII. John Cabot didn't find the Northwest Passage, but rather he found cod fish off the Grand Banks. This caused European Fisherman to fish. -
Jaques Cartier who was a French navigator, explored the St. Lawrence River and the Atlantic coast of Canada during three voyages (1534-1542). Initially, he was sent by King Francis I to discover what's new in the foreign place. His discoveries permits for the lands to be claimed by France which is now Canada. -
A land that was established by French fur-traders. It's located on part of modern day Quebec and stretched south as Philadelphia. The people, Acadians, were descendants of French settlers of Acadia. -
Samuel de Champlain is known as the "Father of New France." He was the one who founded Quebec (Quebec City), which was considered as New France at first. The first man to establish a permanent settlement. In addition, Champlain made explorations of the Ottawa River, the eastern Great Lakes, and New York. -
Jesuits (also known as the Black Robes) came to New France as missionaries with the intent of converting First Nations people to Catholicism. -
The Seven Years War was the first war that was global. It was taken place in India, America, Caribbean Sea, and Europe. In regards to the English soldiers who were involved, many were from Ireland and some from Great Britain.
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Loyalists were American Colonists who were loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution. For this reason, they were exiled therefore finding refuge in Canada. They consist in many backgrounds of ethnicity such as Dutch, German, and races including black and white, and so on. -
The Underground Railroad that was network of abolitionists, helped African Americans escape slavery secretly to Canada and free states. -
Due to the failure of the potato crop, famine was caused among the land of Ireland which resulted in disease and starvation, ultimately leading to many deaths. Therefore survivors would immigrant to Canada. -
In 1857, gold was found in the low Fraser Valley and therefore people worldwide who were miners came to mine for the gold which then became known as the gold rush. The miners primarily came from China. -
Sir John Alexander Macdonald, who was a Scottish immigrant, became Canada's first Prime Minister when Canada became a country on July 1,1867. -
Between these years, 3 million immigrants primarily came from Great Britain, continental Europe, and East Asia. As for immigrants from Great Britain they went to Canada on the basis of how there is farm land available and the wheat prices were on the rise.
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Chinese people were bought to Canada became workers for the Canadian Pacific Railway. Over 17,000 Chinese labourers came between 1881 to 1884 to help build it, having to face danger in doing so with little pay.
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The government passes a Chinese Immigration Act in which a Chinese immigrant would have a head tax of $50. The price then began raise up to $500. This was to prevent the Chinese from immigrating to Canada. -
Throughout this time period, 6 million African Americans emigrants went from the rural South States to the Northeast, Midwest, and West areas due to discrimination and racial segregation, as well as poor conditions economically speaking.
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