June 2022

When the Last Best West moved north to the prairies in Canada

Canadian prairies and Norwegian immigrants, Kirke, utdanning, norskhet og etnisitet / By

The Laurier government was elected in Canada in 1896. It soon put into action an aggressive immigration policy campaign. “Free homesteads were offered promiscuously throughout the world, with the object of inducing settlement on the plains in Western Canada.”[1] The Canadian government placed advertisements promoting the Canadian prairies in more than 7,000 newspapers and farmers’ […]

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Political map of the Prarie Provinces Alberta, Saskatchcewan and Manitoba. (c) 2000 Natural Resources Canada

Some patterns of Norwegian immigration to America and Canada

Canadian prairies and Norwegian immigrants, Innvandring, utvandring og migrasjonskjeder / By

From the end of the American Civil War and until the economic bust in 1893, European immigrants chose to settle in the Midwest and the Northwestern parts of the United States. Even emigrants in Canada preferred the United States during those decades. At least 1.8 million Canadians moved south across the border into the United

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