Early women immigrating to Canada was generated by a network of emigration agents who were salesman who advertised to Canada's attraction's to prospected immigrants. They targeted wealthy farmers, agricultural laborers and female domestics, preferably from Great Britain, the United States and Northern Europe. Canada's first immigration legislation, the Immigration Act of 1869 reflected the laissez-faire philosophy of the time by not saying which classes of immigrants should be admitted but , merely that the "governor" could prohibit …showed first 75 words of 362 total…

…showed last 75 words of 362 total…useless to Canada. They thought that the African-Canadians couldn't be farmers or could do any form of work that was useful to Canada so they thought that it would be better to keep them out of Canada then to have them in. Almost all of Canada's population can be traced back to the major immigration period between 1867 and 1915 which was when the most people immigrated to Canada which was a grand total of three million.