Evening star., 1905-10-12
EXODUS TO CANADA
Thousands of Americans An
nually Crossing the Border.
SETTLING NORTHWEST
REMARKABLE GROWTH OF CoUN-
TRY IN TWENTY FIVE YEARS.
Population Has Been From 10000
to 800, ,OOO-How Immigration
Has Been Promoted.
BY WILLIAM K. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence of The Star and the Chicago
Record Herald.


Record Herald.
REGINA, Canada October 4, 1905.
There has been more or less talk for many
years about the annexation of Canada to
the United States, and while the prospects
for union of the two countries have been
growing less and less fayorable of recent
years, the conquest of western Canada,
WHICH was begun five years ago, is going
on at rapid rate through the occupation of
that country by enterprising American
farmers
In 1881 Canada had 4,324,S1o Inhabitants.
During the next ten years 1t increased 1897
per cent, to 4s33 239. During the next ten
years it increased 11.76 per cent, to a total
| Of 5,371.315 in 1901, and according to the
best authorities, not less than 100000 have
been added to that total during the last
four years.
Inc greater part Of this increase-practi-
caly all OF it-has been in the northwest
British Columbia, during the past ten years
mas increased so per cent; Manitoba G7 per
cent, and the territorieS-the new provinces
which 1 wrote about yesterday-have more
than doubled their population during the
territories had 9S, 967 Inhabitants: in 1aO1
they had 211.649, and they are now credited
with 100000 people.
Recent immigration.
So rapid has been the Immigration durinp
the last four years that it is safe to saw
that there are now 100000 people west of
Manitoba province, in a land where there
were only l9,COO twenty-five years ago The
following figures will show the immigration
curing the years named, and the sources
from which It came:
1000 y, British. is American. European. Total
90
1sSsSs 1sSsS sd5sa s. esiIi s@ss 1sssss.
q. or ot the ne 3o314 British immigrants of 1908
o. 1854 We're from England and Wales
io552 from Scotland and 3,12S from Ire,
land e
The statisticians at Ottawa have not
MADE their returns for 1905 as vet hut
from local authorities I learn that tha ar
rivals this year have been about 15S 200
ana that the gain has been almost entirely
from the United States. More than p
eilousana American homeseekers have
crossed the line every week during the
past year, or an average of about 125 daily
In the month of April last the Canadian
racine and its 500 connection from Min
hesota handled 414 carloads of furniture
and personal effects belonging to immi
grants from Minnesota, Iowa and the Da
Kotas, which is an average of fifteen car
loads every day. This enormous increase
in the population could not be taken-cora
OF If the railway companies were not OMEN
ing mo new lands all the time The can
luidh dCiilc ana the Canadian Northern
are pushing northwestward all the while
with their branch lines and making their
own lands and those of the government ac-
cesslble to the newcomers.
Where the Immigrants Come From.
II is interesting to know where these
people are coming from. You will find
that nearly every state in the Union is
represented 1t is impossible, however. to
give the exact figures for each state, be-
cause no record is taken. The nearest we
can approach to them is to give the origin
of the homeSteaders who have settled upon
Canadian government land Three rail-
road companies and several big syndicates
are selling farms to the newcomers in ad-
dltfon to the government, but the latter
alone inquiries into the antecedents of the
applicant The railroads ask no questions
The following table will show the number
of Americans entering government land
during the hscal year ending June 80 1904,
and the states and territories from which
they came: