Interactions Among Communities By: Anna Klyuchenko

First Nations and Europeans European explorers came to Canada’s West Coast in By 1789, Britain and Spain were trading with First Nation Peoples in the region.

First Nation Now On June 7th, 2007 Canadian Aboriginals held countrywide protests aimed at ending First Nation poverty dubbed the Aboriginal Day Of Action.

New Iceland New Iceland is the name of a region on Lake Winnipeg in the Canadian Province Manitoba which was named after the settlers from Iceland. The settlers settled in Canada in 1875.

New Iceland Now According to Statistics Canada, Manitoba is home to the largest Icelandic community outside of Iceland. There are about people with Icelandic ancestry living in Manitoba.

European Refugees Canada was one of the first countries to accept European refugees. Almost people arrived between 1947 and 1962.

Europeans in Canada Now Europeans are still the largest ethnic group in Canada. Elements of Aboriginal, British, French and more recent immigrant customs, languages and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, also known as Canadian Identity.

Peterborough’s History Of Immigration First Nation peoples such as the Haudenosaunee, Anishnabe and Algonquin, lives in and around Peterborough, Ontario, before British and Irish immigrants arrived in the area.

Peterborough Immigration Now Peterborough was featured in the 2009 “List Of Best Places To Live”. The area surrounding the city, The Kawarthas is full of lakes perfect for yachts and powerboats.

Internment Camps In 1992, about Japanese immigrants and Japanese Canadians came to Canada. Japanese -Canadians were kept behind barbed wire fences and fathers were often separated from their families. They were kept in cold, small internment camps. In 2006, there were 98,905 Japanese Canadians throughout Canada.

Canada-Germany Interactions According to the Canadian Tourism Commission, 277,000 Germans visited Canada in 2012, ranking fourth and contributing around $420M to the Canadian economy. Almost 10% of all Canadians (3,203,300), claim German ancestry of some kind (2011). 2,254 people emigrated from Germany to Canada in 2011.

Canadian- Ukrainian Interactions The majority of Ukrainians who migrated to the Canadian province of Alberta between 1893 and 1929 came from a few small districts in western Ukraine, many of them in modern-day Ivano-Frankivsk Region. The first recorded Ukrainian landed in Montreal. Within the years that followed, tens of thousands of Ukrainians arrived in Canada. Settlers arrived in Canada in 1891 when two immigrants.

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