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*[[Canada Emigration and Immigration]] – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include the Netherlands | *[[Canada Emigration and Immigration]] – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include the Netherlands | ||
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*The first Dutch people to come to Canada were Dutch Americans among the '''United Empire Loyalists'''. | |||
*The largest wave was in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century when large numbers of Dutch helped settle the '''Canadian west'''. During this period significant numbers also settled in major cities like '''Toronto'''. | |||
*While interrupted by the First World War this migration returned in the 1920s, but again halted during the Great Depression and Second World War. After World War II a large number of Dutch immigrants moved to Canada, including a number of '''war brides''' of the Canadian soldiers who liberated the Netherlands. There were officially 1,886 Dutch war brides to Canada, ranking second after British war brides.<ref>"Dutch Canadians", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Canadians, accessed 24 April 2021.<ref/>. | |||
*Dutch emigration to Canada peaked between 1951 and 1953, when an average of 20,000 people per year made the crossing. This exodus followed the harsh years in Europe as a result of the Second World War. Relations between the two countries specially blossomed because it was mainly Canadian troops who liberated the Netherlands in 1944-1945. According to Statistics Canada in 2016, some 1,111,645 Canadians identified their ethnic origin to be Dutch.<ref name="diaspora"/> | *Dutch emigration to Canada peaked between 1951 and 1953, when an average of 20,000 people per year made the crossing. This exodus followed the harsh years in Europe as a result of the Second World War. Relations between the two countries specially blossomed because it was mainly Canadian troops who liberated the Netherlands in 1944-1945. According to Statistics Canada in 2016, some 1,111,645 Canadians identified their ethnic origin to be Dutch.<ref name="diaspora"/> | ||