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Scottish people began to emmigrate to Canada as early as the seventeenth century.
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Scottish people began to go to Canada early as the seventeenth century and still does to this day. Even though it did not work very well when it started.
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Sir Williams Alexander got permission to establish a settlement in 1622 named New Scotland or Nova Scotia. The colony failed to flourish, however, and few families settled in Canada before the British conquest in 1759. The majority of these early Scottish settlers were Roman Catholics seeking political and religious refuge, fur traders with the Hudson's Bay Company, merchants and disbanded soldiers.
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Lord Selkirk, a Hudson Bay Company Director buys land for Scottish settlers
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Over 800 000 immigrants came to Canada in this timepan, making this known as the "Great Migration".
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After the first world war, many scottish people were able to gain passage to Canada under the Empire Settlement Act.
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With the dramatic decline of immigrant admissions and rise in alien deportations during World War 1. The Canadian government tried several means of attracting agriculturalists and domestics.
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After the end of the second World War. My Grandfather is born with the baby boom
