The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-05-19
Labor. Famine Caused
BY Canadian Influx

Calgary, Alberta, May 1S.--WcS-
Term NuIiuua is threatened With 4
t3mlne or artisans, laDOrCrS and do
nestle servants because Of thn great
wave 'of settlers that has been COM
ing nteadllN lol tne last lew luonLnS.
Domestic servants are demanding
and receiving $50 per month and the
supply lSn larGe enough to Hne"t lno
demand. labOrGrS are being paid
as high as : US per day and beard
with permanent employment in pros
pcct.
The scarcity Of labor is due in
great part to the steady stream Of
immigration from lIngiuud and OF il
or European countries and from gnC
United States. Then There are ;hr
two -installment.' of British farmers
who came to settle ON the 'rcady-
made FARMS in the irrigated district
along the Canadian Pacific railway,
in southern Alberta. These British
settlers are from the wcll-l0-dO
NCCmanry Of tie old country, accus-
toned TO having picntN Of help both
on the farm and the house work.
Tho. second -installm4nt of "rcadN.
made farmers" from England settled
near Strathmore and are called the
i'irracana colony They are more
than pleased with their. new hOmcS
though they haven't yet bccom" ac-
cus'umed to the immenSIty. OF tho
country. Hal Caplclon, head of the
Colony, speaking for himself and his
fellow BritOns, said: AT first every
thing was SO entirely different from
what it was at home, that VIC felt
like strangers in a strange land.
This was made more noticeable by
our inability to secure help the mo-
ment, VIC wanted it. 1t took Il fort
night for us to recover from our
feeling OF stranGcness, and now we
are beginning to call ourselves
Canadians.
eve are also learning TO discard
some Of our old country methods OF
farming and to take tho advice OF
those who have made Il success by
Canad ian methods. The fact that at,
least half OF each farm had been
sown before our arrival left Us time
t0 go in for truck farming us q side
issue. We expect to show in our very
first year just rs good results as tn"
farmer who has been here for SrVcruI
years"
The following :Hcls Will show why
there is a scarcity OF labor.- efr rather
an insufficient supply 10 keep par"
with the rapidly growing demand:
Two carloads Of land seekers from
the United States arrived at Calgary
one day last week. They were bound
for llardisty and Provost. More
than 100 immigrants applied for &C
'ommodatiOns at immigration Hall
her" in four days. a party OF thirty
immigrants arrived OH 0iiC Train
from the British Isles, Norway ana
Sweden. One Norwegian, drterlnin-
cd to Go all he could for the new
country, brought his. wife and ten
children.
In two days recently $50 persons,
with total assets Of nearly 500, 900.
i,asscd through St. Paul on route to
che Canadian West. All immigra-
lion records wore recently broken at
Halifax when 5000 immigrants ar
rived in % hours, most Of them
bound for Western Canada.
building operations, both in rail
way construction. houses, stores and
factories are absorbing every avail
able workman. The Western Canada
Flour Mills company has commenced
Worl, on grain storage system that
will take care Of half million BUSH
els Of this falls wheat crop; the
Same firm is about TO begin the con-
%trnCtlOn Of a barrel factory and
cn0peraGe shop, and has purchased
tho machinery for its ttonr III IT,,
which will have a capacity Of 1000
barrels per day.
Fifteen hundred IabOrcrs arc
needed in the saw mills Of Eriti5i!
Columbia, where The wages run a.
ltigh as So day.
The Canadian Pacific las placed
an order with Che Canada Car and
|""ndrv rOmDarv for 700 steel
i frame box cars to be ready for the
at RAJ movement.
The farmers Of Western Canada