HIS312H1 Lecture 3: Lecture 3-Migration from the British Aisles to 1865
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Lecture 3: migration from the british isles to 1865. Most of these early settlements were small-but it was england in that succeeded in getting further imperial claim in this part of the world. British claim that predominated from that point on. In the immediate years after the brtisth conquest-immigration levels were low-however the coming of the loyalists from america changed this population discourse. War of 1812-bwteen the us and great britain. Part of canada became a battle ground-the dangers of trans-atlantic travel scared people off due to the war between the french and english, and the united states and britian. Britain at the time had good prospects-competitive jobs-people were grounded and did not need to risk moving across the atlantic. When upper canada was a battle ground-migration virtually stopped. U. s. was an important source of immigrants loyalists fleeing and going into southern ontario until. Newfoundland-the dangers for atlantic travel still had the same effects.
