How The Population Diversified Under British Rule

The Merchants

   The merchants changed the aspect of the trading business. They were the British and Scottish who were attracted into the fur business. They became administrators and started bring people into the country of New France to expand the business.

The Loyalists

   The Loyalists were basically refugees from the United States who fled because they were still loyal to Britain. Some of them fled to Quebec who remade the territory. Most of them were farmers who settled in the Gaspésie, Sorel, and the St. Lawrence River. Then they transformed the cities into townships called the Eastern Townships.

Increase From 1815
   After the war against the French, the British witnessed many amounts of problems. The population increased tremendously, thus unemployment increased as well. There were almost habitual outbreaks of famines and epidemics. So the British government encouraged the people to emigrate to its colonies. One of them included Canada. The people who emigrated there were the Irish, Scottish, and English. They kept coming in until the beginning of the 20th century. They settled in places such as Quebec City, Montreal, the Eastern Townships, Outaouais, Gaspésie, and on the south shore of Montreal. Thus creating a whole new breed of people living in Canada.

Great Britain's Immigrants Policies
   Because of the emigration of its people, the British government started funding for their settlements in Canada. It lasted for ten years because it started to be too costly. So then throughout the time, there were private companies who started to publicize Canada. They started to advertise and attract immigrants to certain places. Thus, the government didn't take care of the migration inside Canada; it was considered an internal migration. This made Canada population increase as they kept spreading.

Contagious Diseases
   Though the immigration was aiding the population for the British, it caused such negative and devastating consequences such as the spreading of contagious diseases. In the 1830s, the British brought cholera. At that time it was a deadly disease due to primitive thinking of vaccines and preventive treatments. In 1832 alone, Quebec City lost more than 3,000 people. That amount was 10% to 15% of the country's population. They had to them in quarantine in Grosee-Ile, which was 48 kilometers away from Canada. However, sadly, it didn't end the diseases and the epidemic outbreaks.

Grosse-Ile
   Like i mentioned from last my paragraph, Grosse-Ile was a placed where the extremely people stayed. They were put there to be examined, but because of the lack of medical knowledge, they were just left to die. Many of them were Irish who fled from Ireland because of the potato famine. 90,000 people, mainly Irish, died because of the cholera epidemic disease. Since the ships were unsanitary, they didn't have the immunity system to fight it. Another disease, called the typhoid, killed 8,000 people.

Religious Diversification
   Because of the British regime, the majority of the people were either Protestant or Jewish. Some of the British, mainly the Irish, were Catholic. Out of all the people who came from Britain, the Irish were the immigrants who came the most. Due to the fact that they were Catholic, they mostly inhabited in the French community.

The French Canadian Population
   The French Canadian population was there, but scarcely. They were mostly put in a corner, Quebec, and lived there amongst themselves. They were truly part of the minority category because of the British people. Though they are minority, the Irish also integrated with the French because of their common religion. Besides that, there was nothing else that could be taken care of.

The Native Population
   Surprisingly, they were truly a nationality that started having less affect on the country bit by bit. There were Natives, but they were mostly kicked out of the territory the British were in. During the British regime, it seemed as if they weren't diversifying, but they were disappearing.