The second largest group was from Germany
The main way in which Enlightenment thinkers used the ideas of the scientific revolution is that they began to trust science of "God" and therefore looked for tangible answers as to how the world worked the way it did.
There is more technology is one way.
the major periods of chinese immigration (from 1858 to 1923 and since 1947) reflected changes in the Canadian government's Immigration Policy. From 1885, Chinese migrants had to pay a $50 "entry" or "head" tax before being admitted into canada. the chinese were the only ethnic group to pay a tax to enter canada.