books.google.ca - The character of Canada has always been defined by the successive waves of immigrants that have peopled its vastness, beginning with the six thousand French immigrants who came to settle New France in the latter half of the seventeenth century, and continuing through the present day. Migration and adaptation...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Canadian_migration_patterns_from_Britain.html?id=fwY3id1HolQC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCanadian migration patterns from Britain and North America