Women Immigrating
Early women immigrating to Canada was generated by a network of
emigration agents who were salesman who advertised to Canada's
attraction's to prospected immigrants. They targeted wealthy
farmers, agricultural laborers and female domestics, preferably from
Great Britain, the United States and Northern Europe.
Canada's first immigration legislation, the Immigration Act of 1869
reflected the laissez-faire philosophy of the time by not saying
which classes of immigrants should be admitted but , merely that
the "governor" could prohibit …
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…useless to Canada. They
thought that the African-Canadians couldn't be farmers or could do
any form of work that was useful to Canada so they thought that
it would be better to keep them out of Canada then to have them
in.
Almost all of Canada's population can be traced back to the major
immigration period between 1867 and 1915 which was when the
most people immigrated to Canada which was a grand total of
three million.
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