The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-02
Canada's Emigration Bureau.

Canada's Emigration Bureau.
sir years ago Canada waS jogging a loils
N dead and alive way. when an even.
occurred which has changed It's Whole M
,ustri,l outlook. This extraordinary
event was the coming into power OF u
hitherto almost unknown man. me iio''.
Clifford sifton. who had once peen an
Attorney-Ge General in The Province Of Nla al
ltoba. Mr.. sifton was made minister -
tho interior under the Liberal government
md at once began scientific, vigorous ana
attractive advertising for Immigrants U.s. 40
a result Canada, which had been recetV-
ing Immigrants at the rate OF looVo u
year, began to get them In enormously NJ
creased numbers, and they are now pour pour
Eng in at the rate of 100000 a year. rms
influx or men has meant an enormous
increase Of productions along all mes
nor example, the Canadian wheat crop
now runs nearly 160,o0oo0O bushels ana
.AIanitoban No. hard" has estapllsheo
!, new criterion for high grade wheat so
greatly has the wheat and ranchihs IN
sdustry advanced in Canada. that thctc
has been a great boom in building ran
roads at present, in addition to the Ca "a
madam Pacific, which crosses the eiit1re
1,orinjon Of Canada, the Canadian North
crn is already half way across ana me
Grand Trunk Railroad is applying Tor a
charter that it will undoubtedly receive
which Will enableitto build from ocean TO
ocean
Twenty years ago there were not sixty
miles of railroad in Canada To-day
there arc 1851 miles with two transcon-
tinentnl lines under construction a re"
years ago land was sold on the Canaoian
Pacific at 81 an acre that is now bring
ing SIS and Sc an acre. From all along the
northern border Americans are pouring
into Canada, while the tax on capaca'y
Of British steamship lines for immigra-
ton is such that the agents have notl-
fled the continental immigration bureau
( FOR Canada that all cmgrants from the
continent must sail from continental
ports. On one day at the end OF March,
1903, 5000 emsgrants from Great britain
landed in Halifax and a few days later
1000 landed from the continent.
Shortly afterwards tho Canadian gov
eminent took "a. SPECIAL train. carrying
1es American capitalists into the Saskat-
chewan country for tho purpose of de-
monstrating tho value of Canadian land.
Is Over 100000 acres were bought all OF
which will be developed for the benefit
of Canada. Tho tourist will see train
load, after train load Of Immigrants -all
bright cheerful and happy. all ready and
able to work, every one of whom con-
tributes his full quota to the upbuilding OF
the country and to the development of
enormous agricultural. mineral and manu-
featuring resources which lie waiting for
the hand:of man,
The natural question Is. how is this
great change been made? and the answer
Is found in tho organization Of an immi-
grafton bureau. The Department of the
81 Interior of Canada has deputy minister
for the interior. who works from the Ca
madam end, another who works from the
United States and a third who works
In Europe In addition to these indi'
vidual workers, the Canadian Pacific Rail
road has built magnificent offices ir
Trafalgar Square London, perhaps thu
greatest center In that great city, ant
the Canadian government has opened {
regular emigration office at Charint
Cross, which is In the same locality a.
the Canadian Pacific offices. and this en-
igration office receives from six TO seve,
hundred letters q day from all over tn
world. One letter WAS for 5,c5i men 70
3 farm work in Eastern Canada. where III
supply Of labor had been almost ex
liausted by the rush for tho furthe
that Canada has done WAS the great ad
yertIsement which followed tho arc
erected at The time of the coronatlo
of King Edward, This arch cost 5000
and typfied the resources of Canada. a
All advertisement the officials say
would have been cheap at $4,000,
When the emgrants reach Canada the
a are met and taken care of by rfgulp
agents. and the result has been Of II
calcnlable and undrealnt of adyantag
both to immigrant and the country whie
receives him.
canadas resources are very great, b'
Tie opportunity for happiness and re
prosperity Is not greater in Canada thu
right here in Virginia, All that We ne'
rs an organized bureau, which will do I
the Old Dominion what is being done
srs.snt BY tho railroads ana the SoysF