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According to the Preliminary Report of the 1860 Census, the foreign-born population in 1860 broke down as follows:
Please forgive my ignorance, what is British America, were they people that had settled under British rule?According to the Preliminary Report of the 1860 Census, the foreign-born population in 1860 broke down as follows:
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Please forgive my ignorance, what is British America, were they people that had settled under British rule?
Thank you.What we call now Canada
What we now call Canada did not exist as a Confederation until 1867.Please forgive my ignorance, what is British America, were they people that had settled under British rule?
Here is an interesting table of the states persons tended to migrate to if they left the state of their birth:
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I can't find the publication date, but I am guessing the report on the 1860 Census came out the following year.Is that from the same 1860 source? If so, it is pretty interesting, since "Dakota Territory" (see: Minnesota) and "Colorado Territory" (see: Kansas) were not around in 1860
Dakota Territory was Nebraska Territory, and Colorado Territory was made up from parts of Utah Territory, Kansas Territory, and Nebraska Territory. Both were carved out in 1861
I can't find the publication date, but I am guessing the report on the 1860 Census came out the following year.
Guessing it was classified by town village and county.Sure. But I assume that the 1860 census took place during 1860, data was collected then and published a year later. There were no such things as Dakota and Colorado Territories in 1860. I wonder if they collected the data by city and then they assigned it to the Territory it belonged in the day of publication.
Kinda like seeing Alaska and Hawaii in those tables, if you know what I mean. Sticks out like a sore thumb.