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'''British'''. The British Isles soon replaced the United States as the main source of immigration to Ontario. Many '''Irish settlers''' came beginning about 1820. About '''sixty percent of the Canadian Irish were Protestant.''' | '''British'''. The British Isles soon replaced the United States as the main source of immigration to Ontario. Many '''Irish settlers''' came beginning about 1820. About '''sixty percent of the Canadian Irish were Protestant.''' | ||
'''Black Canadians'''. There is a sizable community of Black Canadians in Southern Ontario who trace their ancestry to African-American slaves who used the Underground Railroad to flee from the United States, seeking refuge and freedom in Canada. From the late 1820s, through the time that the United Kingdom itself forbade slavery in 1833, until the American Civil War began in 1861, the Underground Railroad brought tens of thousands of fugitive slaves to Canada. | |||
'''Home Children''' - Some children certainly arrived in Canada before Confederation in 1867, but it is the estimated 100,000 or more who came between 1869 and 1948 whom Canadians call [http://www.bifhsgo.ca/cpage.php?pt=4les Home Children]. These young people, between the ages of six months and their mid-twenties, were from institutions in Great Britain. They were brought to Canada for adoption, or as farm helpers, farm labourers and domestic servants | '''Home Children''' - Some children certainly arrived in Canada before Confederation in 1867, but it is the estimated 100,000 or more who came between 1869 and 1948 whom Canadians call [http://www.bifhsgo.ca/cpage.php?pt=4les Home Children]. These young people, between the ages of six months and their mid-twenties, were from institutions in Great Britain. They were brought to Canada for adoption, or as farm helpers, farm labourers and domestic servants | ||