| These were peasants and farmers who dreamed of | | | | found many jobs and bright opportunities available to |
| new beginnings and greater things for the future | | | | them here in this industrial growing sector. |
| over the seas. So, millions set out on the seas to the | | | | What juridical and psychological problems do Russian |
| United States and Canada. Later on through the | | | | emigrants face in Canada? Russian emigrants face |
| years, the emigrants also were running from civil | | | | the same problems almost every other emigrant has. |
| wars which were breaking out throughout Russia in | | | | The red tape of trying to become a citizen of |
| fear of their family's safety. | | | | another Country, learning the foreign language of |
| Once the Russian emigrants made a safe voyage to | | | | their new home lands, getting used to our customs |
| Canada and the United States, they would join | | | | as they differ from what they are used too, the |
| together and form communities small in nature and | | | | Russian citizenship provisions are in the Citizenship Act |
| would take any kind of work wherever and | | | | of the 28th November, 1990 which was amended on |
| whenever it could be found to support their family or | | | | 17th June, 1993 and on 6th February, 1995. |
| themselves. Many emigrants found themselves | | | | The Russian emigrants have many difficulties upon |
| working in the industries which were flourishing at the | | | | their emigration into Canada or the United States. |
| time, sweat shops, mines and mills. | | | | Sometimes they become singled out by their new |
| Some of the Russian emigrants only wanted too | | | | neighbors into a minority because they speak and |
| stay until they had saved enough money for their | | | | look differently than those around them. They |
| families and go back to their home of Russia. | | | | struggle to maintain positions of equality in this new |
| Who are the Russian emigrants? Defectors from | | | | place. Younger Russian emigrants have an easier time |
| Russia in the 1970's included Joseph Brodsky, the | | | | blending in and learning the new language and |
| poet who won a Nobel Prize, Mikhail Baryshnikov, | | | | customs a lot better than the older Russian |
| talented well known dancer and Alexander | | | | emigrants do. Some people look at them as aliens to |
| Solzhenitsyn, who endured years of being a political | | | | their Country or intruders, when all they are trying to |
| Soviet prisoner, he was a critical, tell it like it is | | | | do is make a better life for themselves and their |
| novelist. | | | | family. |
| Why do the Russian emigrants go to Canada? It all | | | | Canada has seen an increase in Russian emigrants |
| started after World War 1, communities of small | | | | making this their new home in the past years. No |
| Russian emigrants settled and started developing in | | | | matter where your neighbors are from, remember to |
| Timmins, Victoria, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Montreal, | | | | greet them warmly and genuinely welcome them into |
| Sydney, Windsor and Toronto Canada. These | | | | their new home town. You probably have no idea of |
| emigrants were mostly of the peasant farmers who | | | | the hardships they went through just to get to this |
| had emigrated from Russia, because they strongly | | | | better future for them and their children. |
| opposed the regime of the Czarists. In Canada, they | | | | |