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Indians or "East Indian diaspora" in Winnipeg Canada is a scattered pockets of immigrants from India.
Though small groups of immigrants from India came into Vancouver BC, Canada as early as 1897 as India was a British colony, and Sikh soldiers were brought in as part of Queen Victoria's contingent, Winnipeg remained unsettled due to its remoteness & harsh climate. Indo-Canadians#:~:text=India became the highest source,of total immigration to Canada.
However slow & steady movement of next wave of educated class Indian immigrants started moving in in 1950's & 60s. they rose to become scientists, doctors and professors and amalgamated into the society quite well.
A second wave of Sikh Indian immigration came in post 1984 unrest in Punjab, India. 1984 anti-Sikh riots .They carried strong negative sentiment against India and gave birth to the Khalistan movement#:~:text=The Khalistan movement is a,'), in the Punjab region., Which basically is a Sikh Separatist Movement , which was responsible for the infamous Air India Flight 182 and various other terror attacks on India. These people were mainly farmers, and worker class people, following a mass uneducated hypnosis ideology, blaming the entire country of India for a localized incidence . This wave of immigrants mostly absorbed laborious class jobs like construction, Cab drivers, truck drivers etc. They effectively never amalgamated with the Canadian culture and stayed in own groups, circles , creating a mini Punjab in Canada , bringing in the same fractured society as they had in Punjab.
a 3rd and 4th wave of immigrants from other parts of India happened in 1990s, & 2000 after the improving of the Canadian Immigration policies and opportunities in Winnipeg, They mostly came in via the Canadian federal Immigration intakes, higher education students, dependents , high skilled workers categories etc.
and eventually the final and current wave of Immigrants along with the regular skilled category class was the Manitoba Provincial nominee program
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