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Sources
Programme
Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, BO n°22 du 29 mai 2025, arrêté du 5 mai 2025, annexe 4, Programme d’anglais pour les classes de lycée général et technologique: education.gouv.fr
Facts and figures
Statistics Canada, The Daily, 26 October 2022, 2021 Census: statcan.gc.ca
Isaac Saney, “Remembering the Sierra Leone Migration, 230 years later”, Dalhousie University, 25 March 2022: dal.ca
Nova Scotia Archives, African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition: archives.novascotia.ca
Clifford Sifton, “The Immigrants Canada Wants”, Maclean’s, 1 April 1922, pp. 16, 32 to 34, reprinted with permission by the Heritage Community Foundation: archive-it.org
The Canadian Encyclopedia, “Ukrainian Canadian History and Settlement” (Sifton’s figures): thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
Government of Canada, “Prime Minister Harper Offers Full Apology for the Chinese Head Tax”, 22 June 2006: canada.ca
Prime Minister of Canada, “Komagata Maru apology in the House of Commons”, 18 May 2016: pm.gc.ca
CBC News, “Justin Trudeau apologizes in House for 1914 Komagata Maru incident”, 18 May 2016: cbc.ca
City of Vancouver, “Guru Nanak Jahaz (Komagata Maru) Place”: vancouver.ca
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, “Supplementary Information for the 2027-2029 Immigration Levels Plan”, consulted 6 November 2026: canada.ca; “Meeting our population commitments”: canada.ca
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, “Raphael, William”: biographi.ca
Paintings and images
William Raphael (1833 to 1914), Behind Bonsecours Market, Montreal, 1866, first titled Immigrants at Montreal. Oil on canvas, 67.5 × 109.6 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, purchased 1957, accession 6673. Public domain. Image via Wikimedia Commons, not cropped or retouched.
Thomas Faed (1825 to 1900), The Last of the Clan, 1865. Oil on canvas, 84 × 110 cm. The Fleming Collection, London, FWAF/RF43 (a signed version of the painting in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow). Public domain. Image: Art UK via Wikimedia Commons, not cropped or retouched.
Captain William Booth (Corps of Engineers), A Black Wood Cutter at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1788. Watercolour sketch. Library and Archives Canada, W.H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana, C-040162; shown by the Nova Scotia Archives as the earliest known image of an African Nova Scotian. Public domain. Image via Wikimedia Commons, not cropped or retouched.
Homer Watson (1855 to 1936), The Pioneer Mill, signed and dated 1880. Oil on canvas, 86.0 × 127.8 cm. Royal Collection, RCIN 400548; bought in 1880 by the Marquis of Lorne, Governor General of Canada, for Queen Victoria. Public domain. Image via Wikimedia Commons, not cropped or retouched.
Felix Schlesinger (1833 to 1910), In der Pass- und Polizeistube vor der Emigration (In the passport and police office before emigration), late 19th century. Oil on canvas, 81 × 108 cm. Private collection; sold at Hampel, Munich, 12 April 2013, lot 1359. Public domain. Image via Wikimedia Commons, not cropped or retouched.
Harold Gilman (1876 to 1919), Halifax Harbour, 1918. Oil on canvas, 198 × 335.8 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921, accession 8172. Public domain. Image via Wikimedia Commons, not cropped or retouched.
Robert Harris (1849 to 1919), A Meeting of the School Trustees, 1885. Oil on canvas, 102.2 × 126.5 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, purchased 1886, accession 6. Public domain. Image via Wikimedia Commons, not cropped or retouched.
William McTaggart (1835 to 1910), The Sailing of the Emigrant Ship, dated 1895. Oil on canvas, 77 × 87.5 cm. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, presented by Sir James Lewis Caw and Lady Caw 1931, NG 1757. Public domain. Image: Art UK via Wikimedia Commons, not cropped or retouched.
John Watson Nicol (1856 to 1926), Lochaber No More, 1883. Oil on canvas, 108 × 83 cm. The Fleming Collection, London, FWAF/RF346. Public domain. Image: Art UK via Wikimedia Commons, not cropped or retouched.
Henry Sandham (1842 to 1910), The Coming of the Loyalists, about 1880 to 1910: Loyalists landing in New Brunswick around 1783. Reproduced in the set Canadian Historical Paintings (Toronto and Edinburgh, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1925). Library and Archives Canada, C-000168. Public domain. Image via Wikimedia Commons, not cropped or retouched.
The Last Best West, advertisement of the Government of Canada in the Christmas edition of The Globe, Toronto, 25 December 1907. Library and Archives Canada. Public domain. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
Head Tax certificate of Lee Don, 2 August 1918: “the sum of five hundred dollars being the head tax due under the provisions of the Chinese Immigration Act”. Vancouver Public Library, VPL 30625, no known copyright restrictions. Image via Wikimedia Commons (cropped by Commons to the front of the certificate).
Sikhs on board the Komagata Maru in English Bay, Vancouver, 1914. Photographer unknown. Library and Archives Canada, a034014. Public domain. Image via Wikimedia Commons.