Draft:Canadian slavs

In Canada, there is a large Slavic population due to high emigration rates particularly during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This is a centuries-long process caused by many different events.

History

During the early British rule of Canada, the colony had very low population for a colony of its size. With many people of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland not wanting to go, and those under the British colonial empire not having the resources to go, they would turn their attention east specifically towards the people of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth who had neutral relations with the British as well as other neutral or good-standing relations countries with Britain such as Portugal. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth always had bad relations with the Russian Empire, and shortly after the Russian Empire would attack. Along with this, many Polish-Lithuanians had never went on holiday and wanted to go abroad to a more peaceful place to see the rest of the world and live their lives. This lead to a major Slavic relocation across mainly southern Canada. Their ancestors would not return, favouring to stay in the Canadian colony, which would later become an autonomous government in 1931 followed by independence in 1982; creating a mass Slavic population in Canada.