Assignment #5

Why would anyone want to leave their warm home country to come to Canada to fight the feirce cold winds and the freezing land? They didn't have houses or anything. Not even simple tools like a pot or any food.

A few reasons why they took this step of courage is becouse in Europe (where they immagrated from) they wern't aloud to do alot of the things they wanted to do. For example they wern't aloud freedome of worship. The goverment had controll over their way of life, the men were forced to serve in the army, there were no jobs or the jobs were very low paid, many people were poor and barly made enough money to survive, the farmers wanted to own their own land and the cities were over crowded and, dirty and polluted.

The goverment of Canada was offering them free land if they settles on the prairies. For alot of people that could mean that they could own their own land and have a better life. They wouldn't have to give away part of their food to the goverment anymore. The people were also told that their were alot of jobs so that ment that money wouldn't be a very big worry. Some immagrents hoped to make some money out of it and even open their own business. They could get bever pelts and have alot of other animals to hunt.

The people that immagrated to Canada would have faced some difficulties such as finding food, making houses, getting equiptment to cut down the tree's to make the houses and alot of other house hold equiptment. They would have nothing to heat them in the cold. Some might have died of scurvy ( scurvy was a very famous dieses in the olden days) and other dieses.

I think my family came to Canada becouse the state of my country wasn't good. There was probably alot of violence and alot of dieses. There is alot of plases to go in Canada for a trip or sight seeing. Canada also had alot of land and big houses. A few sites that i found that were helpfull are:
A site that i used for most of my info.
http://americanhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_pioneer_homestead
The last site i used is