Canada Flashcards
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Canada - Key Themes
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- Government Schemes
- Land & Opportunities
- Assisted/Philanthropic
- Sojourners
- Transplanted Communities
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Canada - Historical Context
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How many - By 1880s, 3% population, 20% industrial elite, Acheson
When - 1840-50s, Acheson
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Canada - Assisted/Philanthropic
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- Quarrier’s Children, Orphans and Destitute Children’s Emigration Home (Glasgow 1871), Harper
- Quarrier’s, 1872, 31 kids, families contributed £10, Harper
- Quarrier’s, 1898, distribution centre Brockville Ontario, Harper
- 1840 Port St Francis, Montreal, New Brunswick, 620 males, 1,124 females financial aid, 19th Century Parliament Papers 1841
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Canada - Government Schemes
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- 1815, military personnel, character certificate & £16, free passage, plot of 100 acres, Ottawa Valley, 2,700 used, Harper
- 1872-88, agricultural and female domestic, BMH
- 1872, New Brunswick, grants 500,000 acres, establishment ‘Scotch Colony’, New Kincardineshire, BMH
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Canada - Transplanted Communities
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- 1835, 20 Aberdonians establish Bon Accord, BMH
- St Andrews Montreal, 1856, temporary accommodation for homeless Scots, BMH
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Canada - Sojourners
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- Rev. Norman McLeod, settlers to New Zealand, stops Nova Scotia, BMH
- “Employment with the company for a limited period of time enabled them to save enough money to purchase a farm when they returned home”, fur trade BMH
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Canada - Land/Opportunities
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- Crofter families, Outer Hebrides, Killarney Manitoba, 1888, financed by British Government, BMH
- Upper Canada Land Company, settlers pay fifth, remainder in yearly instalments, Peter McNaughton 1835
