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The Quebec diaspora consists of Quebec immigrants and their descendants dispersed over the North American continent and historically concentrated in the New England region of the United States, Ontario, and the Canadian Prairies. The mass emigration out of Quebec occurred in the period between 1840 and the Great Depression of the 1930s. [1]
Pages in category "Canadian emigrants to the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,818 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The history of immigration to the United States details the movement of people to the United States from the colonial era to the present day. Throughout U.S. history , the country experienced successive waves of immigration , particularly from Europe (see European Americans ) and later on from Asia (see Asian Americans ) and Latin America (see ...
Pier 21 is a former ocean liner terminal and immigration shed from 1928 to 1971 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Nearly one million immigrants came to Canada through Pier 21, and it is the last surviving seaport immigration facility in Canada. [1] The facility is often compared to the landmark American immigration gateway Ellis Island. [2]
In 2025 newly elected President Donald Trump issued a 25% tariff on Canada, claiming it was to counter illegal immigration and the distribution of fentanyl. Statistics however show most illegal immigration on the US-Canadian border come from the US and fentanyl distribution from Canada is barely 0.2% compared to over 98% coming out of Mexico. [172]
"The survivance of French Canadians in New England (1865–1930): History, geography and demography as destiny." Ethnic and Racial Studies 4.1 (1981): 91–109. Truesdell, Leon E. The Canadian Born in the United States: An Analysis of the Statistics of the Canadian Element in the Population of the United States, 1850 to 1930 (Yale UP, 1943).
Since confederation in 1867 through to the contemporary era, decadal and demi-decadal census reports in Canada have compiled detailed immigration statistics. During this period, the highest annual immigration rate in Canada occurred in 1913, when 400,900 new immigrants accounted for 5.3 percent of the total population, [1] [2] while the greatest number of immigrants admitted to Canada in ...
Legislative restrictions on Canadian immigration that had favoured British and other European immigrants were amended in the 1960s, opening the doors to immigrants from all parts of the world. [215] While the 1950s had seen high levels of immigration from Britain, Ireland , Italy , and northern continental Europe, by the 1970s immigrants ...