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French settlers
Most French speaking Quebec people are descendants of 8,500 French settlers who came to produce and provide goods such as furs and sugar for export in the 1600s and 1700s. The French also established forts and trading posts. -
Samuel de Champlain
On July 3, 1608 Champlain arrived in Quebec and constructed three main buildings each two stories tall, that he called the "Habitation", and a moat 12 feet wide surrounding them. This was the very beginning of the devloppement in Quebec City. Quebec would soon become the center for french fur trading. -
The Hudsons Bay
The first trade in the Hudsons Bay was made by a First Nation and a European while Henry Hudson and his men were stranded in the winter in 1611 in which we now call the Hudsons Bay, The First Nation people traded fur for beads, marbles and other new objects to the First Nations. -
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Les Filles De Roi
The King's Daughters or Filles De Roi in french were approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France to boost Canada's population by encouraging male immigrants to come and live there and by promoting marriage and the birth of lots of children. -
The Loyalists
The Loyalists came to Canada from the United States in 1776, to escape the American Revolution. They were of Dutch, German, British, Scandinavian, Aboriginal origins and from Presbyterian, Anglican, Baptist, Jewish and Catholic religiouns. -
John Beverley Robinson's Pronouncement
John Beverley Robinson was the Attourney General of Upper Canada in 1819 who declared that black people in Canada were free and protected by British law. In the southern United States slavery was not legally banned until 1865 at the end of the Civil War. -
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The Underground Railroad
Between 1840 and 1860, Hariet Tubman, Levi Coffin and his wife led a network of enslaved people in the United States in secret routes and safe houses in an effort to be free and escape to Canada. -
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Ireland famine
More than 604,000 immigrants fled from Ireland during the Great Famine. Many went to New York. While others went to other countries such as Canada, Brazil, Russia, and Morocco. They were the second largest ethnic group in Canada (after the French), and were about 24% of Canada's population. -
Home Children
In Great Britain during the child emigration movement churches and organizations sent orphaned and abandoned children to Canada. Many believed that these children would have a better chance for a healthy life in Canada, where families took them happily as a source of cheap farm labour and domestic help. -
Dominion Land Act
Dominion Lands Act was the Canadian law that granted a quarter section of free land (160 acres) to any settler 21 years of age or older who paid a registration fee, cultivated 30 acres, and built a permanent house. -
Ukranian immigration
Clifford Sifton, Canada's Minister of the Interior encouraged Ukrainians from Austria-Hungary to immigrate to Canada since he wanted new agricultural immigrants to populate Canada's prairies. -
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Canadian Pacific Railway
As many as 17 000 Chinese men came to B.C, Canada in 1881-1885 to work as labourers on the Canadian Pacific Railway. They only made 1.00$ a day and they still had to pay for their food and their camping gear. The land where they were working was very rocky and dangerous. -
Chinese Head Tax
The Chinese head tax was a fixed fee charged to each Chinese person entering Canada.Passed in 1885, the first anti-Chinese policy was a $50 Head Tax on almost every Chinese person entering Canada. Despite the fee, Chinese immigrants continued to come to Canada as conditions in China were worse. -
Open Door policy
In the 1800's, the Canadian government wanted to fill the western territories with settlers. People from the east came to take homesteads on the Prairies. But by the late 1890's there still werent enough settlers. In 1896, Wilfrid Lauriers government decided to try a new plan. Cliford Sifton introduced an "Open Door" policy to new immigrants. . -
The Komagata Maru
The Komagata Maru was a steamship that arrived in Vancover. The ship came from Hong Kong. The steamship carried 376 passengers from Punjab 20 passengers were allowed to stay in Canada, but the others were sent back to India.
