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1867-1914: Background / Fitful Growth / Changing Conditions / First Wave / Laurier Boom
Fitful Growth: Block Settlements
Economy
Policy Foundations
Block Settlements
arrived at port. Some moved to established Jewish communities in expanding urban areas like Winnipeg and Vancouver. Philanthropists and community leaders encouraged others to take up western homesteads. Initially, almost 200 Jewish refugees did so and soon formed settlements in Wapella and Hirsh, Saskatchewan.
When persecution in Russia prompted a Jewish migration into Canada in the 1880s, western bloc settlements began to form. Between 1880 and 1900, the Canadian Jewish population rose ten times to 17,000. Montreal's Jewish community received many of the refugees but was unable to cope with the needs of the many destitute newcomers who
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