Why Do People Have Lived In Canada

Canada is a nation built on immigration, and as the world becomes an ever increasingly hostile place more and more have chosen to try and make Canada their home. This melting pot of different cultures has created an overall atmosphere of acceptance, and is teaching younger generations a sense of community, empathy, and togetherness. Sharing our space and learning to grow with different ethnicities has perpetuated our status as a friendly, caring, and loyal nation, that many are willing to risk everything for in exchange for becoming a part of it.

How the first Native people arrived has always been shrouded with mystery, yet there have been theorists to suggest they came in one way or another. “Heavily glaciated during the Pleistocene epoch (Ice Age), the early prehistory of Canada mirrors the withdrawal of the Ice” (Lightfoot 2009: 249). The Laurentide sheet and the smaller Cordilleran ice sheet had created floors of the Chukchi and the Bering Sea, creating a bridge between Asia and Alaska. This bridge has been presumed to be the route in which our long ago ancestors first entered the New World. It was then though Beringa, humans then begun to create settlements all over

Similar to the United States, Canada has a significant portion of their population that is native to the land. The indigenous people that live in Canada have lived there for thousands of years before the colonization of Canada occurred. The major groups of modern indigenous people are the Inuit and the Metis. The Intuits lived in Canada and Greenland for hundreds of years without European contact. Their first European contact came from Norse settlers in Greenland; however, these Norse settlers disappeared and left the Inuit mostly isolated until more widespread colonization in the future. The Metis is a group that refers to people who are descendants from both native people and European settlers. Their history goes back to the mid

Canada is not a perfect country that makes no mistakes. Its road to democracy, multiculturalism and equality is long and still continues. Canada once faced serious racism problems, for example, German and Ukrainian Canadians were not treated well during World War I. It was the first time Canadian government and citizens took prejudiced and unfair actions to its own citizens. In 1914, more than a million people from Germany and Ukraine lived in Canada. Many Canadians feared that some of these immigrants from enemy countries might be spies; therefore, Germans and Ukrainians were labelled enemy aliens. They were required to carry their identifications and report their movements to the police, and many lost the right to vote. More than 8000 Germans

Reading the lecture notes and the sources it is certain to me that the history we have for Canada is very brief, and we are unsure of many things, because of the lack of information and sources from the 15th century and up. It is really hard to write a fulfilling and detailed historical analysis on something what is so unclear. Deficiency in legitimate records lead to different views on history and because the records Europeans wrote were not always clear on the groups they made contact with, so it is hard to made one straight forward

The Metis, and first nation’s peoples are very well known in Canada for being the first on lots of Canadian land of today; more well-known was Rupert’s land that they lived on for many years then changed to Manitoba. They live in Manitoba still, then moved to Saskatchewan, and to Alberta also. The Metis are the offspring of French-Canadian fur traders and native women. A mixture of European and indigenous ancestry They brought together a proud culture of both people they descended from, even though through hardships the Metis still remained, and became one of the greatest living cultures in Canadian history.

Within this essay I’m going to be comparing the Irish, and the Chinese. Both had their hardships and were treated poorly, one more so than the other (to me at least). To me that group was the Irish, and I’ll now explain why; The Irish: Most of the Irish population was forced to emigrate because of the potato famine. They were promised work, food, housing, and clothes if they came to settle in North America. Often the landlords of houses would evict families.

After Leif Eriksson set off on his journey to later discover the Newfoundland, he and his crew spotted what is now today called northeastern Canada. The Norsemen carried on their voyage, and likely settled down somewhere near the tip of the island Newfoundland where they spent winter.

European explorers came to North America in the 1500’s to claim land and when they learned it was full of natural resources they soon started to settle into what is now known as Canada. In the 1860’s there were many British colonies in Canada and in 1867 it became a self-governing dominion while still having ties to the British crown.

In “Immigrants and Canadians, Maintaining Both Identities” by Andrew Cohen, which is part of a segment in the New York Times called “How Immigrants Come to Be Seen as Americans,” Cohen states that Canada is “…unlike virtually every country in Europe, we have no nativist party or institutional xenophobia,” and dubs Canada as a Mosaic of Multiculturalism. Why is this so, and how might the perspective that ‘Canada equals a mosaic’ play a role in this surprising phenomenon?

The French People came to live in Canada in 1541 but they officially settled down there in 1604.

First Nations have the longest history in Canada going back way before the Europeans came and settled. With them, they brought diseases that the Natives were alien to and these diseases killed 90% of the population of Natives. This is where it started, a long road of mistreatment and discrimination towards the Natives.

When discussing a minority group that has faced oppression and extensive amount of labelling from others it is important to agree on appropriate and proper terminology that is defined by the individuals themselves. Indigenous Peoples is the most up to date, appropriate term which will be used to refer to all First Nations, Metis, and Inuit people in Canada and is interchangeable with outdated terms such as Aboriginal or Indian which can be seen in quotations. The term Settler refers to all people who moved from European countries, in this case mostly Britain and France, who colonized Indigenous Lands that later became referred to as Canada.

Most people in Canada East lived in the lowlands near the St.Lawrence river. The British

Although the colonization of today’s Canada started in the 1600’s, the effects are still felt over 400 years later today throughout Aboriginal communities. John Cabot, an Italian explorer, was the first to explore Canada’s east coast in 1497 [CITE] while looking for a sea route to Asia. He brought word of this new land to Europe which brought other explorers to Canadian lands. Cabot claimed the area of land in eastern Canada for England and named it Newfoundland. Over 100 years later, in 1534, Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and claimed that land for France. French Colonialists named this land New France. Some years later, in 1608, Samuel de Champlain built the first permanent French settlement which was later called Quebec.