Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-14
ADVERTISING CANADA
Methods Employed by Dominion
Government.
TO ATTRACT AMERICANS
Large Sums Expended for Boom"
Literature.
BOOKS, MAPS AND CARTOONS
Sent Out by the Car Load to Induce
immigration of United States
Farmers-Handling Settlers.
BOOKS, MAPS AND CARTOON!

Copyright 1906, by Frank G. Carpenter)
Special Correspondence of The Star
WINNIPEG.
The Canadian government is after the
American farmer 1t considers him the
best of all men to develop and build I'D
a country, and It is spending vast sums to
get him. 1t has inaugurated an irnnigra-
ton campaign bigger than any ever backed
by any government and It is now working
the United States just as a wholesale dealer
works his territory. 1t has our country
divided up into districts, and there are i'm
migration agents at every center with In
structions TO drum the neighborhood for
pioneer farmers. In this it Is aided by the
railroads and real estate agents. The lat
ter nave mapped out the territory lust as
pook-publishing firm lays out the field
Whlch II expects to SELL and land agents
IKE book agents, are moving from farm
10 farm and getting subscribers to settle
upon the lands and pay by installments.
government Immigration Methods.
The magnitude of this work Is extraordin
airy, During the past year the Canadian
government has published advertisements
IN ''ooo American newspaper and it has
distributed more than three million mans
ana poom documents. The interior denart-
liieht mas sent out car loads of books in
Goiors, cartoonfng the relations between the
onlted states and the Dominion These
1eiI the story at glance; and as Ross
tweed said about Tom Nasts nirturas Of
Iifn, any one can read them One shows
Uncle Sam and John Bull carving great
odes OF money into Canada; another pre-
SCENTS Uncle Sam leaning over the fnterna
tionai boundary fence and watching the
tIaiIs or canvas-covered wagons in which
ms SUBJECTS are moving across these Brit
tsn pFslrleS; whie third pictures Canada
croWolng Uncle Sam out of the English
markets by feeding John Bull with q snoon
me government issues one class of nuhr
cauons Which are intended to catch the
ups. This consists of geographiee ugitb
nrst-ciass maps and pages of text deserib-
ths 1nG material resources and the great
posslplllles or the new Canada Thee have
been sent to the American schools tIro,,ab
the train load Neeu pS
indeed, the government is even IRVING 70
"ork our preachers: The i'm migration
agents nave been writing to the conntr,-
parsons OF the United States nofntfno 80
the moral and other advantages wbicb ~
van IN the wheat belt, and asking their
cooperation in getting good i,nr,;or-.
At the same time the farmers ara 80
worked by the personal testimonfal scbe,,,ns
some OF the publications contain napas o9
letters, some In type and some in att
graph showing what individual farmeue
who have tried Canada think or a.
Indeed. they are much like our patent med
lcine almanacs or advertisements. and show
the effect of this country upon the settiar
before and after taking"
American Millions Going to canado
Inc results OF this work have been enor-
NOUS. am told there are more than
100000 Americans here now. and tina. 60
GOO more are expected this year. Those who
have already arrived have brought in MANY
million dollars worth Of
actual cash. so that 1t is a low estimate m
put their value to the country at s2oo ooo
ooo 1t is said that they would have heen
worth two-thirds that amount IN tho cow
try had they come without cent hut +ba,.
nave brought so much with them that tbsir
personal possessions run into the hundreds
OF millions Indeed 1t makes one tbinL oe
the schildren of Israel, who Moved out -
the land of Egypt. taking with them levels
OF silver and jewels of gold and 1sirnant
save that the money taken into Canada by
the American immigrants belonged to them
selves, while that of the Israelites was
mostly borrowed from the Egyptians
/ have before me the report of the min
lister OF the Canadian interior department
giving some items from the Immigration
agents as to just how much money was
brought in last year from certain United
States points The agent at Detroit says
that he issued cheap tickets to $500 Ameri-
cans who went to Canada to settle, and that
they took with them in actual cash and
other effects about 81 100000. C. j. Brough-
ton the Dominion agent at Chicago, saws
that 1.140 emigrants started by him took
along ninety-one carloads OF goods, and
that the settlers were mainly welI-to-ffo
One man carried away $4,000, four had
together $225 Goo and one had 5000 BEN
jamin Davies. the Canadian agent at Great
Falls. Mont, wrote that 1887 settlers were
sent by his agency to Canada and that
they took with them goods and cash to
the amount of 81 100000. and in addition 1900
head of cattle. The agent at SAUL Ste
Marie says that he sent 74 people with
eleven carloads or stock and $4,000 in
cash, while the agent at st. Paul states
that the average American farmer going
to Canada, takes with him carload Of
farm stock and implements. and about
81 800 in cash. One American who passed
through st. Paul en- route for Saskatchewan
from Omaha sent 1859 emigrants and they
had with them about 100000 worth of
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