HIST 2600 Lecture Notes - Signals Intelligence, Arianism, Stout
3 Apr 2014
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1. why the push for immigration in the later 19th century. Wednesday january 15th, 2014 since the early 19th century immigration integral to canads growth and development, ramps up in the 19th century especially between 1882-1914 specifically during these years we see about 4 million immigrants come to canada. Cnaadian government offers religious freedom to mennonites, as well as the right ot be pacifists, and the government also allows them to settle in secluded, isolated, villages that were only composed of fellow mennonites. We see them begin arrving in the 1870s about 7,000 come and they largely settle in southern manitoba (still today very much a large mennoite population) other. Foreigh" immigrants were small groups from iceland, and also jewish citizens from eastern europe. Icelaners fleeing lack of fertile arable land in native land, in a declining fishing industry, so economically there is not much left in iceland.
