HIS263Y1 Lecture : Lecture 23-January 13.docx
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1896-1914-is the peak of immigration comes to an end with world war 1 when it plumits. This period showed a huge peak of immigration-3 million immigrants arrived in canada-twice the total of the previous 30 years of immigrants. Think about immigration boom in a broader way. Immigration is only one form of migration that shapes canadian history. Thinking about migration more generally is the key theme. Migration out of canada-also very important in cad history-ppl leaving emigration. Migrants who go in/out who live within canada. Move of protestants from ontario into manitoba-how that radically affected policy in. The dominant migration was leaving in the 1890 s-to 1896. In 1900 over 1 million canadians were living in the united states-1/5 of the cad pop. Big chunk of people who went to the states-were french canadians from quebec that migrated to new. England between 1840-1930-about 900,000 french cad migrated to the u. s.
