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Title: Canada and Diaspora 1


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Canada and Diaspora 1
  • (Re)Defining Diaspora
  • Diasporas in Canada
  • African Diasporas and Canada
  • - slavery and Canada
  • - black Loyalists, Maroons, Refugees
  • - fugitive slaves
  • - western Canada

2
Diaspora
  • Diaspora may be defined as the
  • migration of a community through
  • forced or self-willed exile and the
  • efforts of that community to
  • recreate home in new geographic
  • spaces.

3
Brian Ray
  • Canada is one of only a handful of
  • nations where social and cultural
  • change fueled by immigration is
  • perhaps the only enduring societal
  • constant. (Canada Policy
  • Changes)

4
Immigrant Flows Into Canada
  • 1956-1976
  • UK and Europe 64
  • Asia 12
  • 2000
  • UK and Europe 19
  • Asia 53
  • Africa/Middle East 18
  • LA/Caribbean 7.5

5
Slavery in Canada
  • Absence of large-scale plantation production
  • Use of indigenous and African labour
  • Between 1689-1709, slavery institutionalized in
    New France (Code Noir)
  • 1759 4000 slaves in New France
  • 1776 2000 African slaves in Nova Scotia.

6
Loyalists, Maroons and Fugitives
  • 1783 3000 black Loyalists entered
  • British North America
  • 1796 550 Maroons are relocated from
  • Jamaica
  • War of 1812 4000 blacks voluntarily
  • relocate from the United States

7
Fugitive Slaves
  • 1815-1860 80,000 slaves escaped via the UGR
  • UGR as symbol of Canadian innocence and liberalism

8
Western Canada
  • 1850s 700 free blacks moved from San
  • Francisco to Victoria, BC
  • 1909-1912 1300 blacks from Oklahoma
  • Chicago entered Saskatchewan and
  • Alberta
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