Why did people move to Canada in the 1800's?

Answer 1

To escape the US army and the US government.

In the War of 1812 a number of tribes supported the British who were thought to guarantee more of their rights and a British victory would lead to the end of US settler expansion into their lands.

More than two dozen native nations participated in the war. In addition to the Lower Great Lakes Indians, led by Tecumseh, and Southern Indians, the Mohawks fought under Chief John Norton to hold onto their lands in southern Quebec and eastern Ontario.

In the late 1800s some Great Plains people, like Sitting Bulls' Lakota, from 1876 to 1881, fled to Canada to escape the US Army and avoid being forced onto reservations.

White Cap and Little Crow were chiefs of a group of American Dakota Santee Sioux who had fled to Canada for safety during the bloody wars between Whites and Indians, in Minnsesota, in 1862. By taking their tribe to Fort Garry they escaped the largest mass hanging in US history, at Mankato, MN, when 38 Sioux warriors were hanged in a group for their part in the rebellion.

The Nez Perce were headed there when they were defeated 40 miles from the border.

Answer 2

The towns in which most immigrants came from where over populated, busy, dirty, and crowded. Finding a job was hard and once you did it was usually a low paying or dangerous job. Land was hard to come by so why not move to Canada? Large land, good paying jobs, new places.