population and settlement

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Population and Settlement


First Occupantshttp://drarchaeology.com/culthist/origins.htm


French Régime


POPULATIONBEFORE 1663

Mainly male French origin Native population St. Lawrence Valley

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/fr/nouvellefrance


Treaty of Utrecht (1713)


http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/encyclopedia/TreatyofUtrecht1713-QuebecHistory.htm

Utrecht, Treaty of. This was the treaty whereby the struggle between Great Britain and France known in Europe as the War of the Spanish Succession, and in America sometimes as "Queen Anne's War", was brought to a close in 1713. By it France ceded to Great Britain her claims in North America to the Hudson bay territories, to Newfoundland, and to Acadia. But the treaty was little more than a temporary truce, for its provisions left the door open to further disputes, which ultimately culminated in the Seven Years' War. No attempt was made to define the extent of the Hudson bay territories; France retained in Newfoundland certain fishing rights, which were what she most valued; and in ceding Acadia, she did so "according to its ancient limits", which had never been laid down. She retained, moreover, the island of St. Jean (now Prince Edward Island ) and the island of Cape Breton ; and on the latter she proceeded to erect the fortress of Louisbourg, guarding the entrance to the gulf of St. Lawrence, and menacing Acadia itself.

Source : W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. VI, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 398p., p. 224.

http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/wa/War_of_the_Spanish_Succession

Population and Settlement http://www.emersonkent.com/map_archive/north_america_1763.htm


British Rule


British Rule

http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/maps/index.htm

Population and Settlement The main waves of Loyalists came to what is now Canada in 1783 and 1784.


http://www.canadiana.ca/citm/imagepopups/bna-1840_e.html


http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/can1800.htm

1840s


http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/coffin.htm

Contemporary Period



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Why did French Canadians emigrate from Quebec in such large numbers at the end of the 19th century ?


This period in Quebec history is often referred to as the "great migration". Between 1860 and 1900 more than 500,000 French Canadians left the province of Quebec and emigrated, for the most part, to the United States. In one decade alone, between 1880 and 1890, over 150,000 left. Why ?the lack of arable land and an overpopulated countryside

the lack of jobs in the city mechanized agriculture which reduced the need for agricultural

manpower to find work in the textile mills of New England

To stop the exodus of French Canadians both the Catholic Church and the Quebec government: promoted the colonization of the unsettled areas of Quebec such as the Laurentians, Saguenay-Lac St.-Jean, Gaspésie, and the Mauricie.

The government of Quebec also began to subsidize the construction of railroads to these outlying regions in order to facilitate access to them.


PERIOD NUMBER

OF EMIGRANTS

PERCENTAGEOF THE

POPULATION

1840-1850 35,000 5.4

1850-1860 70,000 7.8

1860-1870 100,000 9.0

1870-1880 120,000 10.1

1880-1890 150,000 11.3

1890-1900 140,000 9.6

EMIGRATION FROM QUEBEC TO THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN 1840 AND 1900

What is urbanization?


Urbanization is the movement of people from the rural areas or countryside to urban centres or cities.In 1861, only 16.6% of Quebec's total population lived in urban centres.

By 1901, the percentage of people living in urban centres in Quebec jumped to almost 40%.

In 1861, Montreal's population was 90, 323. Forty years later, Montreal's population had tripled.

Causes for Urbanization industrialization - as more and more industries were established

in urban centres more people came looking for jobs and a better standard of living

a surplus of labour in the rural areas Social Consequences of Rapid Urbanization inadequate and overcrowded housing illiteracy, poverty, pollution, and poor sanitation disease and high childhood mortality rates

population and settlement

Documents

settlement population

lawrence valley population

hudson bay territories

settlement http

great britain

encyclopedia of canada

menacing acadia

years war