The Importance Of Migration To Canada
1. Through an exploration of family history develop your own immigration profile determining where your family has come from, when they came to Canada, how they travelled here and why they came. One page in length.
On my mother’s side of the family, some of the earliest members of the family to arrive, in Canada, came from Sligo, Ireland. The ultimate push factor that caused them to move away from Ireland was the potato famine and the search for a better life. As they were farmers, this was troublesome for their profession. They moved to Canada so they could have more success in their field, as well as promise for better opportunity. It was said that they came over on the Mayflower. They settled down in a village, near Toronto, called Markdale. …show more content…
Early on in the century, the government decided to purposefully attract large amounts of immigrants to Canada, mainly from America and Europe. During this period, a large amount of immigrants flooded into Canada. To gather interest and attract people to Canada, the government was offering free land to those who were willing to become citizens. As a result, most of those who migrated to Canada came with a strong background in agriculture and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to claim free, functional land. This was one of the biggest pull factors for immigrants in this time period. Most also had solid knowledge of the English language, but some also had no background speaking English or French. As the Canadian Pacific Railroad had recently been completed, everyone could now easily access the western Canadian provinces. This was where the land that the government was giving away was located. Consequently making it the region that most immigrants ended up settling in. Although many came from all over the world as well, the primary location that a majority of these immigrants came from the British Isles and other European countries. Later on, after World War II, Canada got another surge of immigration. Many new immigrants were people who felt more secure and protected in Canada, rather than their country of origin. At this time, over one and a half million people chose to immigrate to Canada. While the British Isles were still the most common regions to immigrate from, people from other European countries moving to Canada was beginning to become a more common occurrence. It was not until the seventies when people from non-British countries started frequently immigrating to Canada. For the first time, the amount of people from countries outside of Europe exceeded the amount of Europeans who immigrated to Canada. This was the beginning of solid diversity and multiculturalism in Canada. Within
On my mother’s side of the family, some of the earliest members of the family to arrive, in Canada, came from Sligo, Ireland. The ultimate push factor that caused them to move away from Ireland was the potato famine and the search for a better life. As they were farmers, this was troublesome for their profession. They moved to Canada so they could have more success in their field, as well as promise for better opportunity. It was said that they came over on the Mayflower. They settled down in a village, near Toronto, called Markdale. …show more content…
Early on in the century, the government decided to purposefully attract large amounts of immigrants to Canada, mainly from America and Europe. During this period, a large amount of immigrants flooded into Canada. To gather interest and attract people to Canada, the government was offering free land to those who were willing to become citizens. As a result, most of those who migrated to Canada came with a strong background in agriculture and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to claim free, functional land. This was one of the biggest pull factors for immigrants in this time period. Most also had solid knowledge of the English language, but some also had no background speaking English or French. As the Canadian Pacific Railroad had recently been completed, everyone could now easily access the western Canadian provinces. This was where the land that the government was giving away was located. Consequently making it the region that most immigrants ended up settling in. Although many came from all over the world as well, the primary location that a majority of these immigrants came from the British Isles and other European countries. Later on, after World War II, Canada got another surge of immigration. Many new immigrants were people who felt more secure and protected in Canada, rather than their country of origin. At this time, over one and a half million people chose to immigrate to Canada. While the British Isles were still the most common regions to immigrate from, people from other European countries moving to Canada was beginning to become a more common occurrence. It was not until the seventies when people from non-British countries started frequently immigrating to Canada. For the first time, the amount of people from countries outside of Europe exceeded the amount of Europeans who immigrated to Canada. This was the beginning of solid diversity and multiculturalism in Canada. Within