immigration

By megrubno
  • Period: to

    Many Europeans come to North America

    Population increased from 430 000 to 2.5 million

  • Gov restricts others

    Government restricts immigrants who are poor, disabled, or criminals.

  • Treaties

    Canadian gov.make treaties with First Nations living between B.C and Ontario

  • Diminion act

    21 years of age or older paid the $10 registration fee lived on the land for three years or more cultivated 30 acres of the land and built a permadent dwelling on the land
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    Chinese men

    about 17 000 chinese men came from Hong Kong and Kenton to work on the railroad.
  • Period: to

    Canadian gov. collects $23 million through head tax

  • Period: to

    potash

    potash was banned in canada

  • Chinese head tax

    Canadian gov. decides to charge Chinese immigrants $50

  • Immigrant farmers

    Canadian gov. hope to attract workers for the west.

  • Chinese head tax $100

  • popuation

    12.7% of canadas population was immigrants

  • Chinese head tax $500

  • War measures act

    War measures act allows gov. to suspend immigration from Hungary, Austria,and Germany

  • WWI

    after WWI, 1.5 milion immigrants came to Canada

  • Gov. Religeon

    Government limits amount of immigrants from certain religous and ethnic groups!

  • the great depression

    immigration dropped during the great depression

  • WW2

    WW2 finishes and manty immigarnrs find Canada desirable again.

  • Refugees

    Refugees are a class of immiigrants now
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    Immigrant jobs

    Immigrants were mainly technitions, managers, and entrepreneurs.

  • many immigrants

    by the end of of the 20th centery, many immigrants groups called canada home.

  • immigration policy

    an immigration policy was passed in canada discursing the rules and regulation of immigration.

  • apology for head tax

  • Reform act

    The refugee reform act increases refugee acceptances!