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