The role immigration has played in Canada historically

Just like in the USA, immigrate to Canadahas played a significant role in shaping the culture and society of Canada. After getting its independence from the United Kingdom in 1867, it is immigration which the Canadian government utilized to help in the significant land tracts.
Information that was government-sponsored in campaigns, as well as recruiters, ensured to encourage immigrants in that era to settle in the frontier, rural areas. But it was not all immigrants who were welcomed to settle in Canada.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, there were policies which discouraged or prevented people to immigrate to Canada by select groups which included certain non-European people and people with backgrounds which were not Christians as well as the ill, poor and disabled.
The calculus for Canada immigration changed after the post-war period when refugees, as well as other people, started fleeing Europe. It is then that the public attitude started softening with the economic growth demanding for a significant workforce.
There were also cold wars which encouraged the Canadian policy to change, giving a preference for the establishment of anti-soviet and anti-communist bloc immigrants. The legislation that happened in the 1960s and the 1970s put a groundwork for Canada’s immigration as it is known today, embracing multiculturalism.
A point-based system was introduced in Ottawa in 1967 for applicant’s evaluation, with Canada jumping in immigrants from Asia, Africa, the Latin America and the Caribbean. A policy that was drafted in 1971 was the one thar articulated for the involvement of the government for cultural diversity.
Legislation in 1976 ended up codifying the commitment of Canada to refugees, mandating the provincial and the federal-provincial officials to be able to develop targets for immigration together and made immigration to be a tool for achieving the country’s economic, cultural and social objectives.