Initial Immigration
After this event, immigration to Upper and Lower Canada greatly increased.
What is the War of 1812?
The Maritimes are largely populated with immigrants whose ancestry dates back to this country.
What is Ireland?
Chinese immigrants played a large part in this industry in the Yukon.
What is the gold rush?
What is migration?
A network of secret routes and safe houses.
What is the Underground Railway?
A great plight of famine was a major push factor for these immigrants.
Who are Irish Immigrants?
These immigrants are said to have the earliest European contact with Canada.
Who are Italian Immigrants?
Chinese Immigrants are mainly responsible for the construction of:
What is the Canadian Pacific Railway?
A person fleeing persecution from their homeland.
What is a refugee?
These people were promised land in exchange for fighting in the Rebellions of 1837.
Who are Loyalists?
This is the word for hostility or prejudice displayed against Jewish people.
Antisemitism.
The system of land-holding in New France. These people were given estates and responsibilities to settle land and oversee its administration.
What is the seigneurial system?
Not all Chinese Immigrants, but a large percentage would settle in these two cities.
Where is Vancouver and Toronto?
This is a pull-factor that used to exist, but can no longer be offered to promote immigration today.
What is free land?
This person was a key historical figure in ending slavery in Upper Canada.
Who is Chloe Cooley?
The official count of a population.
What is a census?
These immigrants are historically very union and business oriented.
Who are Italian Immigrants?
The government used this policy to regulate Chinese immigration in early Canada.
What is the Chinese Head Tax?
61.8% of current immigrants come from at least one of these three countries. (You need to guess two correctly to collect points)
Where is China, India or the Philippines?
This was a major settlement in Nova Scotia for Black Loyalists.
Where is Birch Town?
On an immigration cargo ship, these aspects of the journey would not be provided. (There are four answers, you need to get three correct for full points.)
What is bathrooms, food, space, and medical assistance.
These immigrants are never the majority culture group where they immigrate from.
Who are Jewish Immigrants?
These wars were a major factor in pushing Chinese people to immigrate.
What is the Opium Wars?
This system is how Canada today decides on whether or not a person can immigrate to Canada.
What is the Points System?
This activist helped hundreds of enslaved people escape through the Underground Railway.
Who is Harriet Tubman?