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The loyalists were colonists in America who stayed loyal to Britain during the American Revolution, they feared prosecution for their belifes, so they fled to Canada
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Many slaves with loyalist masters were promised freedom if they fought for the British in the revolution.
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During this year the potato crop in Ireland failed, since this was a major food source for many people in Ireland, many emigrated to Canada to escape the resulting famine.
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During this timespan as many as eight hundred thousand immigrants settled in canada during this period.
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Many black slaves escaped to Canada using the underground railroad, a loose network of safehouses used by escapees to get to the north.
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The Canadian government wanted to strenghen english populations in Quebec and in other parts of the country, so they encouraged immigrants from Britain and Scotland to move to Canada
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The Chinese head tax charged fifty dollars for every immigrant wanting to get into Canada from China.
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This act started by canadian interior minister in 1896 encouraged immigrants to settle on the praries and make a living being farmers
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This policy introduced by Wilfrid Laurier and his Liberal Government was a plan to get more white immigrants to the interior of the region.
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The Canadian governmnet outright banned all immigrants from moving to Canada until after the second world war.
