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  2. History of immigration to Canada - Wikipedia

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    The history of immigration to Canada details the movement of people to modern-day Canada.The modern Canadian legal regime was founded in 1867, but Canada also has legal and cultural continuity with French and British colonies in North America that go back to the 17th century, and during the colonial era, immigration was a major political and economic issue with Britain and France competing to ...

  3. American immigration to Canada - Wikipedia

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    These immigrants included native-born Americans and immigrants to America who first tried to settle in America. [16] Between 1908 and 1911 over 1000 African Americans in Oklahoma would decide to come to west Canada, motivated by a distaste for American Jim Crow laws and the economic prospects of land in west Canada.

  4. Great Migration of Canada - Wikipedia

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    Before 1815, 80% of English-speaking Canadians were exiles or immigrants from the 13 American colonies or their descendants. Because of this, until the 1830s, English Canada had pronounced American cultural 'flavour' in spite of the political divide over membership in the British Empire and independence. This may account even today for many ...

  5. History of South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    South Carolina is named after King Charles I of England.Carolina is taken from the Latin word for "Charles", Carolus. South Carolina was formed in 1712. By the end of the 16th century, the Spanish and French had left the area of South Carolina after several reconnaissance missions, expeditions and failed colonization attempts, notably the short-living French outpost of Charlesfort followed by ...

  6. Outline of South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    American Civil War, April 12, 1861 – May 13, 1865 South Carolina in the American Civil War. Battle of Fort Sumter, April 12–13, 1861; Carolinas Campaign, January 5 – April 26, 1865; South Carolina in Reconstruction, 1865–1868; Fifth former Confederate state readmitted to the United States on July 9, 1868; Conservative rule, 1870-1890

  7. Colonial period of South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720 (U of South Carolina Press, 2019). Quintana, Ryan A. Making a Slave State: Political Development in Early South Carolina (U of North Carolina Press, 2018) online review [dead link ‍]. Rogers, George C. Evolution of a Federalist: William Loughton Smith of Charleston (1758-1812)

  8. Territorial evolution of North America since 1763 - Wikipedia

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    The Province of Canada or the United Province of Canada was created by combining Lower Canada and Upper Canada. It was a British colony in North America from 1841 to 1867. Its formation reflected recommendations made by John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham in the Report on the Affairs of British North America following the Rebellions of 1837 .

  9. Canada immigration statistics - Wikipedia

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    Since confederation in 1867 through to the contemporary era, decadal and demi-decadal census reports in Canada have compiled detailed immigration statistics. During this period, the highest annual immigration rate in Canada occurred in 1913, when 400,900 new immigrants accounted for 5.3 percent of the total population, [1] [2] while the greatest number of immigrants admitted to Canada in ...