Canadians Who Founded Canada Are NOT Immigrants. They Are Settlers Who Reproduced Native Born Canadiens!
Today anti-Canadian lobby groups promote the false notion that settlers are the same as immigrants. The CRRF (Canadian Race Relations Foundation) even states “[w]ithin the context of race relations, the term [settlers] refers to the non-indigenous population of a country.” By “non-indigenous” the CRRF means non-aboriginals, that is, white “colonizers”.
The problem with this is that the settlers who founded Canada are not immigrants. Settlers come to a new place and build a civilization from the ground up. When a settler arrives there is no infrastructure, no benefits, and no social services to help them survive. Just bare land and “indigenous” tribes.
Some of you may have heard of the TV show “Little Mosque on the Prairie” which was about Muslim immigrants coming to rural Canada.
The name of the show was meant to appeal to European Canadians who were familiar with the book series “Little House on the Prairie” by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Interestingly Laura Ingalls Wilder has now been cancelled by the woke mob for the “anti-Native and anti-Black sentiments in her work”.
In her books, Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about how settlers had to endure many hardships in the wild and untamed North American forests. Settlers lived in sod houses, or simple cottages, and had to try and gather as much food and supplies as they could in order to survive the harsh winter months. These settlers were not just a part of Canadian history, they were heroes who deserved to be treated with great honour. Today many of us do not possess the tenacity and survival skills that the European settlers in Canada possessed. These are the sorts of aspects of our history that we must relearn and teach to our children.
But what exactly is a Canadian? Or an American, or an Australian, or an Argentine, or a German, or a Frenchman, or an Englishman, or an Italian, or a Swede?
It depends whether we’re talking about those nations as they have existed since the 16th and 17th centuries, in the case of the New World – and for untold centuries in the case of Europe – or whether we’re talking about the bloated, unrecognizable hybrids those nations have been turned into over the past 45 years. Since the late 1960’s, to be precise.
And here, a few myths need to be dispelled:
1) The “First Canadians” (or Americans, Australians, etc.) were NOT the Indians and Aboriginals that the Europeans encountered upon discovering those lands. Those people were nomads who roamed continents about which they had no idea as to size, geography, natural resources, etc.
The FIRST Canadians – or Americans, Australians, etc. – are the people who mapped those lands and gave them their names, laws, borders, institutions, governments, built their cities and towns, and created those nations out of the wilderness they originally encountered. This is why Indians can cross freely back and forth between the United States and Canada, since the border is the “white man’s line”. And it is. Just like all other borders, states, provinces, etc.
2) The countries of the New World are not “nations of immigrants”. The concept of “immigration” is an 18th century concept born out of the so-called “Enlightenment” (Les Lumières, die Aufklärung). That is to say, from the writings of the French philosophers – Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Diderot etc. – who gave the 18th century its name and inspired both the French and, to an extent, the American Revolution.
The countries of the New World were founded by PIONEERS. Subjects – not “citizens” – of the French, English, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese Crowns, who built those countries from scratch and made them what they are. They didn’t “immigrate” to the New World. There was nothing to immigrate to.
3) Immigration as we know today it only started in the second half of the 19th century. It was a direct consequence of the Industrial Revolution and 99% of that immigration came from Europe. Kindred folk of kindred religion, culture and race which lately assimilated with “indigenous” people and other immigrants in new system.
It really is important to clearly differentiate between a settler population that creates new settlements in an undeveloped territory and an immigrant population that moves into the already-established settlements of a country developed by another population.
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