Matching Articles"Immigration" (Total 8)

  • About the $300.00 head tax imposed by the Newfoundland Government on each chinese immigrant entering Newfoundland in 1906.
  • About the English and Irish origins of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians that immigrated between the 17th and 19th century.
  • Newfoundland and Labrador is often described as having the most homogeneous population of European origin in Canada.
  • France was one of the earliest European nations to engage in the migratory fishery and dominated the industry throughout the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • French migrations to Newfoundland and Labrador began in the early 16th century and lasted for approximately 400 years.
  • Newfoundland and Labrador's cod fishery was the major pull factor attracting French settlers to the colony from the 16th through 19th centuries.
  • The push and pull factors that contributed to immigration to Newfoundland.
  • The seasonal migrations from England to Newfoundland, begun in the 1500s, endured for nearly four centuries and involved hundreds of thousands of individuals.

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