Immigration, multiculturalism, and womens rights

Black loyalists

sent to Nova Scotia after the American Revolution , several hundred arrived before and after the war in what would become known as Upper Canada

Chinese immigration

Chinese migrants had to pay a $50 "entry" or "head" tax before being admitted into Canada. 

Black immigration

Between 1800 and 1865, approximately 30,000 Black people came to Canada via the Underground Railroad

Historical discrimination

Jewish students were prohibited from studying at Canadian universities,  depicted immigrants as poor, illiterate, diseased, morally lax, politically corrupt and religiously deficient. 

womens rights

the right to vote in provincial and federal elections, the right to own property, the right to earn a fair wage, and finally, the right to be recognized as “persons” under the law.

religious minorities immigration 1900 - 1970

**Roman Catholic minority in a predominantly Protestant Canada-West**.