Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-20
American Colonists in Canada
Will Find Many Things to
Contend
THE LANDS ARE LITTLE KNOWN
Only Trappers, Indians and Fur Trad
ers Are Acquainted With the coun-
try 1t is Proposed to Colonize With
Settlers From the United States Next
Wear

Toronto, Ont, Nov. 2O.-Sanadlan
officials in charge of crown lands and
colonization in Ontario will decide this
week upon just what provisions are
to he made for the American colonists
from the middle west. In a general way
it has been agreed upon that the
American settlers shall have 2,oOoooo
acres of land, but the details of the
contract are yet to be worked out.
1t will be just as well for the people
of Illinois, Michigan. Indiana and 9TH
er neighboring states who are contem-
plating this hazard of fortune in new
country to understand what conditions
are in the new promised land" With
the beginning of spring the American
company expects to have colonlsts
started for Ontario.
These pioneers of the movement can
have little choice of lands. There are
three sections of the country into
which they may go. If they come from.
the states of the middle west they will
be directed into the southern portions
of the Rainy river and Thunder bay
districts. If they come from the New
England states, as it is expected many
of them WILL they will go to the south
ern part of the district of Nipissing.
In the latter district partial surveys
have been made and townships marked
out. A partial settlement has been
made by French Canadians from the
province of Quebec.
Until railroads are built these are
the only parts of New Ontario" which
are open for settlement. The tracks
are being laid to the further countries
of the north, where the real colonial
ton is expected to take place. With
the entrance to the country thus open
ed the new agricultural district will be
ready to receive it's settlers.
AT present this land is known only
to the trappers, the Indians, and the
fur bearing animals they hunt. Thu.
Hudson Bay company has It's scattered;
posts thru the pine forests, but aside
from this human habitation is I'M
known.
The American who loves his native
state and comes into this region must
have the qualifications which made the
early western pioneer able to win his
way. Homes must be carved out Of
spruce forests and maintained thru
years of hardship and discomfort.
The most advanced of the three re-
gions now open to settlement can not
be reached by railroad. The Canadian
Pacific will carry colonists for the Nip
issing districts as far as Lake Tennis
kaming and there stop. The rest of the
journey must be made by water.
This is the most accessible district in
the province aside from certain sections
of Rainy river and Thunder bay, where
the land is not SO good. It is the vast
district newly explored to the north
that is the real promised land" in On
tario, and there is where the American
pioneers will be sent in greatest num-
bers when once the railroad has opened
up the country.
American millions have been the van
guard of the American invasion up to
date. The settlers who are coming into
Ontario will find that the American dol
lar has preceded them and that Ameri-
can industry is building up the country.
One can take map of the province
and mark out the reservations which
capital from the states has staked out,
and these markings will take up great
deal of the available area.
Beginning at the southeastern bound
airy Of Ontario one finds the Standard
Oil company intrenched in the nickel
regions about Sudbury. From 100 to
200 men in the employ of this company
are prospecting for metal about the
upper coast of the Georgian bay and in
the interior.
Further west are the wonderful
Clergue industries, where an amount
estimated at s20,0O0,000 is being ex-
PENDED by the Philadelphia capitalist,
who is laying railroad tracks thru un-
inhabited lands and building a famous
manufacturing city at the Canadian
Sault st. Marie.
Still further west-in the Thunder
bay and Rainy river districts-is the
United States Steel corporation pros
pecting for iron and other metals along
the north shore of Lake Superior.
There are some silver properties near
Port Arthur, and gold has been found
about Lake Nipigon. Edison also has
prospectors In the nickel regions.
ADJUSTMENTS.