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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  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 Canadian nationality law - Wikipedia

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    a British subject who lived in Canada for 20 years immediately before 1947 and was not, on 1 January 1947, under order of deportation; women who were married to a Canadian before 1947 and who entered Canada as a landed immigrant before 1947; children born outside Canada to a Canadian father (or mother, if born out of wedlock) before 1947.

  6. 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. [17]

  7. African Americans in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The Underground Railroad was a secret network that helped African Americans escape from slavery in the South to free states in the north and to Canada. [4] Harriet Tubman helped enslaved Black people escape to Canada. [5] Around some 1,500 African Americans migrated to the Plains region of Canada in the years between 1905 and 1912.

  8. Category:Immigrants to Canada - Wikipedia

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  9. Former colonies and territories in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The island is the traditional hunting grounds of the Inuit and is claimed by both Canada and Denmark. [44] In 2007, updates of satellite photos led Canada to recognize the international border as crossing through the middle of Hans Island, not to the east of the island as previously claimed. [45] Hans Island – (1933–present)