1. Post Contact Immigration to Canada
Euro-Immigration
Post Contact Immigration to Canada

2. Definitions:
Push Factor – A reason why someone would want to leave the country that they originally lived in.
Examples: war and unemployment, over-crowding

3. Examples: peace and employment opportunities, free land
Pull Factor – A reason why someone would choose a specific location to move to.
Examples: peace and employment opportunities, free land
Peace
Free land

4. Immigration- When a person enters into a new area and
Emigration- When a person EXITS a specific area, they are said to emigrate FROM it.
Example: Export  people rather than products though
Immigration- When a person
enters into a new area and
calls it home. Coming “IN”

5. Euro-Canadian immigration is generally divided into 5 categories….
a) French Migration (New France) – 1620 onwards
b) Loyalist Migration (during the American Revolution)
1776 onwards
c) The Great Migration (British Isles – Ireland and England)
1815 onwards
d) Western Canadian Settlement (The Prairie West)
1885 onwards
E) 20th/21st Century Immigration – 1900 onwards