Block settlement

The policy of planned blocks was pursued primarily by Clifford Sifton during his time as Interior Minister of Canada.

Some politicians wanted all ethnic groups to be scattered evenly though the new lands to ensure they would quickly assimilate to Anglo-Canadian culture, while others did not want to live near "foreign" immigrants (as opposed to British immigrants who were not considered foreign) and demanded that they be segregated.

These were towns of Czechs, Norwegians, Germans, Russians, and religious groups that were allotted land to create homesteads and farms.

[7] (Map) Mennonite communities originally part of the East Reserve, Manitoba include: Mennonite communities originally part of the West Reserve, Manitoba include: Mennonite communities originally part of the Scratching River Settlement, Manitoba include: Saskatchewan settlements[8] (Map) Early Alberta settlements began in La Crete, Alberta and Didsbury, Alberta 1901[9][10] Early British Columbia settlements began in Yarrow, British Columbia and Abbotsford, British Columbia 1911[9][11] Meaning: people coming directly from the United Kingdom, not English-speaking people from Ontario, Atlantic Canada, or the United States.

Meaning: settlers from Eastern Canada, primarily Ontario, and mostly of British and Irish origins.

Many of the Jewish immigrants to Canada came from settlements in Eastern Europe, including Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire (later the Soviet Union).

Alberta British Columbia Manitoba Saskatchewan German settlement began in the prairie provinces in the 1890s and continued until the 1920s during the homesteading period.