Canadian Immigration

This flashcard set covers canadian immigration from 1896-1914. It reviews pull and push factors.

__ are social, political, economic, or environmental benefits that draw migrants to an area.

Pull factors

__ are social, political, economic, or environmental forces that drive migrants out of an area.

Push Factors

From 1896-1914 canada experienced one of the __ immigration booms, increasing the population from 5 million to 9 million.

largest

In 1872, the government offered __ acres of farmland to attract farmers to grow wheat and produce for export.

160

__ grew the population of the prairies very quickly by building exhibits at fairs and posting ads in european newspapers promoting canada.

Clifford Sifton

In 1895, __ moved to canada and promoted canadian homesteads to ukrainians who paid high taxes and lived in poverty on small farms back in ukraine.

Dr. Joseph Oleskiw

__ were farmers living in russia who were pacifists and got in conflicts with the russian government for not joining the military, which led to beatings, imprisonment, or exile if they stayed.

Doukhobors

__ is discrimination, prejudice, or hostility against jewish people, which was growing in europe blaming jewish people for the problems of the european society.

Anti - Semitism

Trips from europe to canada were __ and required taking multiple boats, trains and wagons for weeks or months.

long

__ is a type of land distribution that allows settlers from the same country to form small colonies.

Bloc Settlements

Most descendants of doukhobors lived in __ because frank oliver wanted to see more british on farmland that the doukhobors cleared.

british columbia

From 1867-1948, 100,000 british children were sent to canada to work on farms, they were called __ because they were chose from orphanages or homes for poor kids.

home children

In the 1890s cities began to develop __ where chinese people felt safe and they could attend social gathering, buy chinese goods, and send money to families in china.

Chinatowns

__ is a highly populated and run down area of a city.

Slum

__ was a policy that was made to exclude chinese by making them pay a fee to enter canada from 1885-1923.

Head tax

__ took over sifton’s role, he wanted to created a more restrictive immigration act, allowing to restrict immigration, deport, and create regulation to unfairly target people considered undesirable.

Frank Oliver

__ stated that immigrants coming to canada had to travel by continuous journey from there country of origin to canada.

The Continuous Journey

__ happen when a japanese steamship carrying 376 passengers( mostly male and Sikh) arrived in vancouver and were denied entry but they refused to go back to india so they stayed in the harbor for 2 months.

The Komagata Maru incident

On september 7, 1907 a small ]rally took place where people held up white banners saying __.

for a white Canada

__ was one of the first black settlements in alberta.

Amber valley