Welcome back to this weekly blog post. It has been quite a while since I posted one so I might be a bit rusty. In today’s post I am going to be talking about a topic we recently covered in class, and after we did a little class research I decided I wanted to go a little deeper and do a weekly blog post on it. The topic we covered in class was immigration in Canada. I hope you enjoy this post.

In this post I just wanted to know a little more about Canadas immigration laws and history. In class we already focused on some laws and how immigrants impact Canada, so right now I just want to look at the beginning of immigration and its laws.

The fist law that was created was the immigration act in 1869 according to Pier21 the first immigration laws were put in place just after Confederation. It was put in place my John A. Mac Donald with few restriction on immigration. It also states that this act was put in place in hopes that people would settle in Canada, however apparently this did not really work as there was not a huge amount of people who came over. 

That is pretty far back in the past, but talks of immigration is Canada go back to even before confederation. In 1865 at the time of the confederation debates it was a key idea in the development of Canada. According to Cha-Shc George Brown even stated in one of his speeches that the best option for Canada was immigration because it could “increase our population to make greater productions to make our exports more valuable”. Back in gr.9 my class did a project on confederation and I remember clearly when we learned about John A. Mac Donald and George Brown, however I don’t remember hearing anything like this in their speeches and debates.

Another part of the article explained that Quebec was all for immigration because they did not trust the English speaking government members who made up most of the new federal government. I thought this was interesting and it was also something I noticed in a documentary like video we watched in gr.9. The documentary covered the history of confederation and what happened in the federal government, and I noticed how few members were francophone.

The last part I will include is when in 1867 the government had an understanding of what they needed to do medically to prepare for the new diseases that were sometimes brought over when people immigrated.

Overall I thought this information was interesting. Of course I have known about immigration but I never really looked into it before now. After learning about how important immigrants are to the success of Canada I thought it would be a good idea to look into it a little more, and I am happy I did because I leaned a lot about what immigration looked like in the past.

That is going to wrap up this post, there should be a new post every week now so stay tuned.

That’s all for now.