What are Push and Pull factors for people in England to move to Canada in the 1800-1900?
The Canadian government offered free land to immigrants so that was the pull factor, the push factor was that life for working class people during those times in the UK was bloody horrible, child labour meant that all your kids worked and that meant that they could have been killed in the many pit accidents for example. Squalid, unhealthy conditions in the towns and cities, unequal distribution of wealth – this carried on till around the eve of world war 2 and British people throughout that time and even today have always emigrated out of the UK. The Canadian government offering free land and a chance of a new life in a faraway country – add shared language and culture which would have appealed to a lot of people in Britian – then and now.
