CANADA-ETHNIC DIVERSITY

New France

- Jacques Cartier claimed the land for France

- In 1604 first french settlement

- In 1608 the explorer de Camplain founded Québec

- In 1642 the French also settled down in Montreal

- Missionaries tried to convert Natives without

success

- Settlers traded with natives and farmed land

- France wield an empire from Hudson Bay to the Gulf

of Mexico

British colonies

- Sir Humphrey Gilbert took possession of Newfoundland for Elizabeth I

- Hudson Bay was found by the British Henry Hudson

-> a trading company was grounded: Hudson Bay Company

- Treaty of Utrecht 1713

Seven-Year-War(1756-1763):

- Britain and France fought for control of Canada

- The British conquered Montreal,Québec and other colonies from France

-> Canada rather British than French

- Britain acquires all French colonies

- The French could keep their French civil law and got religious freedom

Immigration Flow

- A lot of people from Britain came to Canada

- The USA became independant

-> "Loyalists" fled to Canada

- Advertising campaign in western Europe and Scandinavia

-> huge wave of immigrants

- "Great Migration" between 1815 to 1850

- Immigrants from Ireland, due potato crop

- Immigration through the Gold Rush (mainly Chinese

people)

Canada's annual intake

Pic. 1- Permanent residents between 1860 and 2010

- Average intake of immigrants : 250.000 per year

Origin of Canadian population

Task:

- 1. Analyze the given line

graph and explain it

regarding Canada's

history

Overview of Ethnic Groups

Is Ethnic Diversity good for Canada?

Pros

Contras

- Makes Canada versatile

- Canada takes Ethnic Diversity for granted

- Leads to more tolerance

-> makes the society stronger

- Solidarity

- Canada is a peaceful country

-> inclusion of immigrants worked

quite well

- Significant inequality

-> discrimination of minorities

- In Canada, minorities have the

lowest income

- Canada's Ethnic Minorities are

less integrated into society than

whites

- Clash between values

(e.g religion)

Refugee and Humanitarian Resettlement Program

- A refugee can not apply directly for resettlement himself

- United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) tags refugees

- Sponsorship Agreement Holders* support refugees directly or within communities

- The Blended Visa Office-Referred (BVOR) Program allocate identified refugees with sponsors

* Sponsors who got an agreement with the government of Canada to help refugees

Asylum Program

- Not everyone is able to apply for asylum:

- people who are convicted for crime

- had one or more claims for asylum denied

- The refugee have to be in danger:

- danger of torture

- risk to their life

- risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.