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Early Immigration Timeline
Early Immigration Timeline
By Angelica Dolinski
Gold was discovered along the Cariboo River in British Columbia. A wave of gold hunters (from the United States, China, Chile, Hawaii, and Europe) immigrated to British Columbia.
1874 & 1880
Many European citizens fled their countries and immigrated to Canada due to serious economic problems in Europe. This resulted in a large fluctuation of immigrants in Canada.
312 German settlers came to Halifax in 1750. By 1753, 1450 German immigrants settled in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
1828 (especially 1845 - 1849)
1760
French settlers and Samuel de Champlain came to Canada in Port-Royal, Nova Scotia. There they would build the first ever permanent settlements. Immigrants who settled there were known as the Acadians.
The vikings first settled to Canada in L'anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland and Labrador. They built one settlement there that is still standing today.
1608
1500 A.D.
1605
1000 A.D.
1750
1815 - 1869
England, France, Spain, Denmark, Italy, Norway, Portugal, and a few other countries would settle come to the shores of Canada 500 years later. The countries who would claim parts of Canada their own would be England and France.
1858
With the fall of Acadia, the defeat of New France, and the British taking control, Canada's make-up began to become more British thanks to immigrants from England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.
Samuel de Champlain founded another settlement called New France near the St. Lawrence River. French people mostly immigrated to New France.
A Russian religious group called The Mennonites immigrated to Canada because the Canadian government promised them they wouldn't need to join the military, and that Canada's land was cheaper than the land in the United States. Approximately 7,000 Mennonites immigrated to western Canada.
The Irish immigrants flocked to Canada because of the great potato crop failure. The potato crop was destroyed by disease. Many Irish immigrants had cholera, and were restricted to quarantine stations until cleared by doctors. Thousands died at the quarantine stations, and about 17,000 died at sea on the way to Canada.