Ethnic Groups that influenced Canadian Music

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Ethnic Groups that influenced Canadian Music

• Canada's music has mirrored the history and
  culture of the country.
• Canada is a First Nation and Immigrant settled
  country. What does that mean?
• Many indigenous peoples (both First Nations and
  Inuit) have inhabited the country that is now
  Canada for thousands of years and have their own
  diverse histories. Indigenous peoples contributed
  greatly to the culture and economy of the early
  European settlers and have played an important
  role in fostering a unique Canadian cultural
  identity.
• Canada has evolved from a group of European
  colonies into an officially bilingual (English
  and French), multicultural federation

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Why? What is the Importance?
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Brief History of Canada

• Aboriginal and Inuit tradition holds that the
  First Peoples inhabited parts of Canada since the
  dawn of time.
• Archaeologists support a human presence in
  northern Yukon from 26,500 years ago. Europeans
  first arrived when the Vikings settled briefly at
  L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland around 1000 AD.
• The next Europeans to explore Canada included
  John Cabot in 1497 for England and Jacques
  Cartier in 1534 for France.
• French explorer Samuel de Champlain arrived in
  1603 and established the first permanent European
  settlements at Port Royal, Nova Scotia. Acadians
  settled the present-day Maritimes, while French
  fur traders and Catholic missionaries explored
  the Great Lakes, Hudson Bay.

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Over the next couple of hundred years

• French and Iroquois Wars broke out over control
  of the fur trade because the fur trade was
  Canada's most important industry until the 1800s
• The English established fishing outposts in
  Newfoundland and mainland Nova Scotia came under
  British rule.
• The Treaty of Paris (1763) gave Canada to
  Britain following the Seven Years' War.
• It also recognized American independence gave the
  area south of the Great Lakes to the Unites
  States. As a result 50,000 United Empire
  Loyalists fled the United States to Canada.
• Canada was a major front in the War of 1812
  between the United States and British Empire.
  Because of this a sense of unity was created
  among British North Americans. Large-scale
  immigration to Canada began in 1815 from Britain
  and Ireland

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• Canadian population grew rapidly because of high
  birth rates.
• In the mid 1800s British immigration decreased
  because they headed to the United States,
  especially French Canadians moving to New
  England.
• To open the West, the government sponsored
  construction of three trans-continental railways
  (most notably the Canadian Pacific Railway), and
  established the North West Mounted Police to
  assert its authority over this territory.
• In 1898, after the Klondike Gold Rush in the
  Northwest Territories, the Canadian government
  decided to create the Yukon.
• Under Liberal Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier,
  continental European immigrants settled the
  prairies, and Alberta and Saskatchewan became
  provinces in 1905

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• Canada entered the First World War in 1914 with
  Britain's declaration of war
• Canada declared war on Germany independently
  during World War II under Prime Minister
  Mackenzie King, three days after Britain
• Post-war wealth and economic expansion ignited a
  baby boom and attracted immigration from
  war-ravaged European countries.
• In the 1960s Quebec underwent profound social
  and economic change.
• Canada adopted its current Maple Leaf Flag in 196
  and in response to a more assertive
  French-speaking Quebec, the federal government
  became officially bilingual with the Official
  Languages Act of 1969.