HIST 202 Lecture Notes - Germ Theory Of Disease, Quarantine, Freemasonry
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Hist 202 survey: canada to 1867 (october 31st 2011) Politics and political turbulence; looking at this part of the world (north east of north america) an area that experienced a lot of reverberations. Move away from the politics and focus on the people. War of 1812 was a real watershed with patterns of immigration. Immigration then and today have a way of throwing up social fault lines, conflicts, issues of identity, etc. This period is absolutely no exception in that respect: 1763-1815 before situation, pre 1815: most immigrants are from 13 colonies/us, 3 waves of americans, nothing british about bna (lower canada majority) Patterns of migration at this time is largely american; coming from the 13 colonies and then the united states of america after 1783. First movement of people largely went to nova scotia (about. 7,000) new englanders, replacing the acadians whom were deported. Second flow was the loyalists to upper canada.