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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 ...
None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933–1948 is a 1983 book co-authored by the Canadian historians Irving Abella and Harold Troper. It is about Canada's restrictive immigration policy towards Jewish refugees during the Holocaust years. It helped popularize the phrase "none is too many" in Canada. [1]
A Military History of Canada. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Wagner, Jonathan. A history of migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939 (UBC press, 2006). Wilhelmy, Jean-Pierre. Soldiers for Sale: German "Mercenaries" with the British in Canada during the American Revolution (1776-83) (2013) excerpt
This mass immigration had as a backdrop economic and social problems in the Old World, allied to structural changes that facilitated the migratory movement between the two continents. British people and Iberians continued to immigrate, but influxes from other parts of Europe, particularly Germany, Italy, Ireland, Austria-Hungary , the Russian ...
This is a timeline of German history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Germany and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Germany. See also the list of German monarchs and list of chancellors of Germany and the list of years in Germany
This is a brief timeline of the history of Canada, comprising important social, economic, political, military, legal, and territorial changes and events in Canada and its predecessor states. Prehistory
Canada 145 boys, 139 girls 25 SS Duchess of York: Canadian Pacific Line: August 10, 1940 August 21, 1940 ZA Liverpool Canada 256 boys, 238 girls 43 TSS Nestor: Booth Steamship Company August 24, 1940 October 20, 1940 OB 203 Liverpool Australia 82 children 10 SS Volendam: Holland America Line: August 29, 1940 Torpedoed August 30 OB 205 Liverpool ...
Canada receives its immigrant population from almost 200 countries. Statistics Canada projects that immigrants will represent between 29.1% and 34.0% of Canada's population in 2041, compared with 23.0% in 2021, [1] while the Canadian population with at least one foreign born parent (first and second generation persons) could rise to between 49.8% and 54.3%, up from 44.0% in 2021.