Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-01
AMERICANS IN CANADA,

AN1EHICAES IN JANRGN,
| The figures of immigrants from the
United States to Canada for the past
twelve months show total of 1880
actual American settlers in the do
lminion. More Americans have home
steads than of any other nationality,
and according to a Minneapolis paper
the land sales of the Canadian Pacific
are practically all made to American
buyers. This influx began when the
cheap wheat lands of Minnesota rose
| in price beyond the means of the poor
er immigrants and DETECTED the stream
toward still cheaper lands. In 1900 the
figures of this immigration were but
5,791, in 1901 $4,000 and in 1902 $4,000
So far there has been no diminution of
the current setting toward the Ameri-
canization of western Canada, and until
homestead rights are exhausted and
Hand prices fail to attract the American
invasion of western Canada Is likely
to increase rather than diminish. That
the country will bear years of the pres
emf influx is evident when the immensi-
ty of the area open to settlement is
considered. According to the New
York Post. Colonel G. E. Church has
estimated the area available for wheat
raising in the Canadian Northwest at
100000 square miles, or four times that
on which wheat is grown in the United
States. Only l per cent of this area Is
under cultivation. Manitoba and North
Dakota began wheat raising about the
same time: yet while Manitoba had in
1901 2,212,9 600 acres, ten contiguous
counties OF North Dakota had 2,S94,000
acres 1t is said that one county of
North Dakota had last year more land
lin wheat than all of Manitoba. OF
course these comparisons Will soon lose
their point if the present rate OF i'm
|ues, for there will be opened vast
area of now unbroken plain.
Professor Goodwin Smith estimates
that there are more than million ma
tive Canadians in the United States. If
the tide of American immigration con-
tlnues to set toward Canada at the
ratio Of the past three years the trans
fer of population will soon be made
equal and the amalgamation of the two
In
terests are not to be divided by an i'm
aginary boundary be well under way.
Geogra phically. Canada and the Ameri-
can republic belong together and the
reciprocal exchange Of populations go
ing on should tend toward the absorb
ton sooner or later of the weaker do
minion by it's powerful neighbor on the
south.
The American farmer will make an
impression on Canada. He is welcome
there with his irresistible enterprise
and up-se-date methods. The change
from the United States TO Canada is
change In governments more than in
methods ana ms success IN opening up
and developing the Canadian north
west win furnish great factor in the
Americanization of that country. AS
stated by the Toronto (Canada) Globe:
NO intending farmer Who comes into
the territories possesses such advan-
tages for beginning work successfully
as the American settler. for the latter
brings with him not only experience in
western farming and a knowledge Of
the ways of the west, but he generally
has q carload OF stock and effects,
which enable him to set up for himself
Immediately. The farmer from the Da-
kotas simply transfers his business of
agriculture. with all the accessories of
II. from one side of the line to the other
and goes on growing wheat without
missing a crop"
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