The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-22
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HEAVY MOVEMENT OF SETTLERS
rs EXPECTED.
Transplanted Citizens Of States Find
Conditions So Nearly Like Those at
Home that they Scarcely Notice the
Difference, Says 7. M. Knappen-
Royalty Gets scant Courtesy.

L. M. Knappen, formerly secretary
of the Canadian Land & Immigration
association, with headquarters in this
city, is now associated with "a COM.
pany having headquarters in Chicago
and New York and dealing in Canadian
lands. Mr., Knappen has recently made
an extensive trip by wagon thru west
ern Canada inspecting lands for This
company, He Travelled more than four
hundred miles by wagon and was out
two months. He has been into the ex-
IRENE northwestern part OF Saskatche-
wan and the most remote sections
reached by constructed orr projected
lines of the Canadian Pacific road and
the Canadian Northern and Grand
Trunk roads.
Mr.. 'Knappen says the conditions are
Of heavy immigration and that, as here
tofore, this immigration is expected
from the states. For the first 200 miles,
he says, in his recent trip he didn It
find settler on farming land who was
not from the states, with three or four
exceptions, In the towns the proper
ton of Canadians, Englishmen and 9th
er foreigners is larger, but the settle,
ment Of the country continues to come
chiefly from Minnesota and the Dako-,
tas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and Mon.
tana and some from as far south as
Oklahoma. 40,
Americans Are Content. i.
The American, Mr.. Knappen says,
accepts the political situation in Cana
da complacently. Institutions are not
so different from ours, and whatever
the American settler may contemplate
for the future, he is nowadays con,
tented; Britisher in the sense that all
Canadians are Britisherss they are 10y
the independence of Canada is a. cher
ished thought. The national spirit is
strong and the Canadians look forward
to the time when Canada will be an
independent nation, shaping her own
foreign policy and controlling her af-
fairs entirely without interference from
England. -, -. -
How lightly the yoke Of the empire
rests upon Canadian shoulders is illus
Earl Grey, the governor general of Can
ada, recently paid visit to Calgary.
1t was an incident Of his western tour.
Naturally he expected reception; but,
as matter ofSfact, when he arrived
at the station there was no one to meet
him and no popular demonstration of
any kind during his short stay in the
city. - @<s*.s..-:..s - x y
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The lack of courtesy exhibited at
Calgary, was the subject of remark in
eastern Canadian pape~s, to which
the Calgary papers replied, in sub
stance, that they regretted the failure
Of anyone to show proper courtesies to
the governor, general of Canada, but
they would remind their critics that
the people Of Calgary are busy and
are not inclined to take from their thor
oily occupied days the time necessary
to pay respects to the governor general,
because the governor general. really, in
is merely a figurehead, and stands for
nothing except an obsolete custom. If
Earl Grey, agreeable and acceptable as
he is personally to the Canadians, had
been an elected officer; if, as head of
the Dominion government, he sustained
the same relation to the electors that
President Roosevelt does, the people of
Calgary say they would take much
more interest in him and there would
have been no lack Of enthusiasm over
his visit. =. r.. ..,r,... =