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What is civil wars?
Wars between different groups of people in the same country.
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What is France and Great Britain?
In the 1600s and 1700s, immigrants from these countries came to Canada to look for jobs and a better life.
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What is Black Loyalists?
Former American slaves fought for Great Britain and were known as this.
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What is Quebec?
It became the French-speaking province of Canada.
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What is Britain?
For many years, Canada only wanted immigrants from this country.
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What is diverse?
Having different races, cultures and languages.
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What is "The Great Migration"?
Known as this, between 1815 and 1850 more than 800,000 people came to Canada from Great Britain to farm the land.
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What is free land and food.
This was given as a reward by the British government to British soldiers who stayed in Canada after the War of 1812.
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What is Alberta?
Many of these immigrants left the U.S. in the 1700s and settled in this province
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What is racist?
Laws that limit or prevent certain groups of immigrants to come to a particular country could be called this.
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What is policy?
a set of rules; a plan
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What is famine?
From 1846 to 1852, this forced 2 million people to leave Ireland and start new lives in Canada.
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What is farmers?
Canada's government specifically wanted these types of workers to settle the Western prairies.
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What is Nova Scotia?
About 2000 Black Refugees escaped the U.S. after the War of 1812 and settled in this Canadian province.
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What is China?
Canada allowed workers from this country to enter into and work in Canada until they were no longer needed. Later it passed laws that taxed family members if they wanted to immigrate to Canada.
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What is Loyalists?
People who lived in the U.S. but stayed faithful to Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War.
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What is a boat or a ship?
Using this mode of transportation, the journey to Canada from Europe could take up to 3 months.
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What is propaganda?
A method of attracting farmers from Eastern Europe in the late 19th Century, posters were often used.
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What is Ontario?
Originally the English-speaking province of Canada, it was called Upper Canada and became home to many immigrants from England, Ireland and Scotland.
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What is transportation routes, water and jobs.
Every community needs these three things to thrive.
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What is refugees?
People who are forced to leave their home country to live in another country because they are in danger.
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What is Prince Edward Island?
Thanks to Irish immigrants, today potatoes are farmed mostly in this Canadian province.
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What is a "pull factor"?
Offering an opportunity to own your own farm in Canada would be considered this type of factor for an immigrant from Eastern Europe.
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What is Pier 21?
Today a national museum, immigrants who travelled to Canada by ship docked here when their ship reached Halifax.
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What is multiculturalism?
Made an official policy in 1971, it means the Canadian government respects all Canadians regardless of their race, religion or language.
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