HIST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Avail, Indian Act, The Resignation
12 Mar 2015
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The state of the union, 1867: canada had a population fewer than 3. 5 million at the time of confederation, clustered along the great lakes, st. lawrence and individual provinces. In 1867, the peoples of great britain north american colonies were a mixed lot: the lands first nations could be found in every region, but their numbers were declining rapidly. Germans were not recent immigrants; they retained their cultural identity in areas where their settlements were concentrated, such as lunenburg. Country, nova scotia, and waterloo country, on: 30,000 people of african descent lived in canada. The first africans in the colonies in both the french and british regimes were usually slaves. After the american revolution, 3500 free blacks arrived in the loyalist migration. When the hold fields were depleted, fewer than 2000 chinese remained to form the basis of canada"s oldest chinese community. Life and death: canada was a young nation in 1867.
