Quote:
Originally Posted by Capsicum
It's been noted that compared to the US where there was lots of inter-state movement historically (eg. the settlement of the west from the east in general, the Great Migration of millions of African Americans from the south to the north, the "Okies" who migrated to California during the Dust Bowl period, the current Sunbelt boom), in Canada, there has been little mass migration within the country between provinces, once most people settled within their part of Canada.
Many people were actually more likely to move into Canada (immigration) or out of it (emigration, especially to the US) than move between places within.
But what are the major examples of mass migration within Canada's own borders?
Franco-Ontarians settling Ontario from Quebec?
Settlement of the west (from eastern Canada, in addition to overseas immigration?)
The Klondike Gold Rush?
|
Mass movement from Ontario, especially rural Ontario, to the Prairies in the 1890s and 1900s. You can’t look at a small town newspaper from that period where there isn’t a write up about some newlywed couple being seen off at the train station, headed for their new farm in Manitoba or Saskatchewan.
I do notice an arc of movement in which young Ontario men and families would be in Winnipeg around 1910-12, then head west, eventually turning up in Vancouver around 1920 and not infrequently ending up in California.
An earlier migration was in relation to the Cariboo gold rush. That drew a lot of young men across the country.