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Immigrant People to Canada

I would like to add a page/table of some of the people who have immigrated to Canada over the years, and have made various contributions to the building of this great country. All I am seeing in these series of articles are just dry facts that we are a nation of immigrants. Zarcom 09:49, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Notable immigrants are categorized at Category:Immigrants to Canada. Deet 23:28, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In passenger shipping lists of European migrants travelling to Canada ~1900-1930, I have seen stamped "British Premium allowed". I should like to know what that was and its origin. Quothquhan (talk) 14:17, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Maritimes sub-heading

May I suggest changing the sub-heading to Atlantic Canada? Newfoundland and Labrador is not considered a maritime province. HJKeats 16:45, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Deet 23:34, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Komagata Maru

Would it be appropriate to reference the Komagata Maru incident? It was not only the Chinese who experienced exclusion policies. Canuckle 19:27, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Full of bad history

Just scanned the Western Canada section, which needs major work and BC should be broken off as it has a separate immigration history until at least 1885. I'll be back....Skookum1 (talk) 21:47, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

BC section to be broken off from "the West"

I've already been pondering a History of immigration to British Columbia article as it's such a different story than east of the Rockies; after finding the "West" section here I now see it's a priority need, a BC immigration article that is. There's almost next to nothing about BC in that section, which is typical of Prairie/Central Canadian perspectives on the so-called "West" (even when it's not used as a synonym for Alberta). The Chinese subsection there was so badly written, and so full of lies and "we have great business acumen and superior etc" that I went at it with a weedwhacker and planted some weeds of my own (all true, unlike the ones I whacked out). it's disturbing to me that such complete fabrications as the Chinese not being allowed land alienation rights - completely false - are repeated as part of school curriculum materials despite being uncitable/untrue; and also promoted and further fabricated and distorted by the CCNC, who get federal funding for their media/information programs/websites (without any oversight at all re content); another lie on their site is that Chinatowns were the result of laws restricting Chinese settlement/residence in other areas; not even true in the US, where that myth originated. That much of this material is racist in its own right, about Chinese superiority etc, makes it all the worse but the government cares more about votes than it does truth.....the CCNC were not cited here, but a "Socials Eleven" citation was, and such materials are based on htheir disinformation/propaganda campaigns (the CCNC is PRC-backed...). That what BC immigration history, or any history, most other Canadians know, has to do with thet Chines makes ht is problem all the greater; given the false facts being circulated and also the passing-over of other important groups such as the Germans; or as observed in Mark S. Wade's book The Cariboo Road that ethnicity didn't matter in the goldfields as much as the type of person who survived the ordeals of the journey and had the will and skills to get there; a a "different breed", irrespective of ethnic origin. But it's so much easier to divide people up by race/colour- too big a theme in modern Canadian historiography as if that's all our history were about (particularly BC's history). Anyway I don't have my BC library here in Halifax; the best source on BC immigration history is Strangers Entertained, a 1971 BC govt publication on all BC's ethnic groups, in detail; and In the Sea of Sterile Mountains by J. Morton. I can't write/expand this without them, for now anyway; but I'll be around to watch the POV/ethnic-selfbloat on this page, and may try to stub up a BC section; adjusting the Eastern Canada title to Atlantic CAnada for obvious reasons...; nfld should probably have icts own section also.Skookum1 (talk) 16:50, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Been a few months forgot about this....but came across it again tonight and this line at teh start of the "West" section says it all:

Some early explorers who made inroads to the west are:

followed by a listing of only those who came from the east....I don't have time at the moment but will keep this page tabbed and try and write up a brief summary of immigration to BC as simple as possible without line-quotes though, and make it a new section - "the West" is far more diverse too and its immigration history after what's recounted here is not just about the Ukrainians and Chinese (some may know this already but this was my grandfather, director of Scandinavian immigration to Western Canada....family's from Manitoba, but I'm from BC myself and know enough that BC was settled first from the south and west, and even when from the east it was different than it was on the Prairies or further east...Skookum1 (talk) 23:55, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Merge.

Merged The Great Migration of Canada. *The Shadow 277* 12:08, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

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Hello, I have removed the subsection “Scandinavian colonists and settlement” for unsourced material, no reliable source can be found. Noted issue in Wikipedia:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board/Articles to improve. The two other subsections from the European section also aren’t sourced, should they be removed? Newfiebluejay (talk) 00:19, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not sourced doesn't mean not true. If a reliable source can be found, great! If not, reword or remove or leave a no citation tag. Masterhatch (talk) 20:14, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]