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The Emergence of Modern Canada
Summary: Elected prime minister in 1896, Wilfred Laurier enacted a policy intended to encourage massive immigration and western settlement in Canada. As a result, immigration to Canada grew rapidly during the years 1896-1914. While this wave of immigration created social and racial tensions in the short term, the immigrants contributed greatly to Canada's national prosperity and helped make Canada more of an appealing multicultural nation.
Immigration in Canada between the years 1896 - 1914 had grown rapidly. The new Liberal government of Wilfred Laurier had designed a policy to encourage massive immigration and western settlement. Laurier thought that these were essential for Canada's national development.
A campaign was initiated to attract settlers to the prairies, advertisements were sent around the world. 160 acres of land was offered to immigrants who would settle in the west. By 1911, nearly two million people had immigrated to Canada. Several had settled in the cities, or the lumbering and mining areas, as well as over a million had settled in the prairies and in B.C. The rapid population growth had resulted in the creation of the provinces. (I.e. Alberta and Saskatchewan)
A large amount of the immigrants were English-speaking, that came from the U.S, Britain, also a sizable amount of Germany, Ukraine, Poland, etc. Along with the Europeans...
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