The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-18

WINNIPEG, Can, July 1S.-West'
.ern Canada Is building towns on 4
wholesale plan. The government and
the big transcCntinental railroads
working in harmony intend to lay out
and populate 220 new towns in the
next year and half; an average OF
three new towns will be placed OF
tho map Of Canada every week dur
Ing the next Is months.
Along the new Grand Trunk Pacific,
now building, Will be placed over l50
of these infant cities; the Canadian
Pacific will build up new towns alon5
its roadbed wherever these are more
than 16 miles between existing sta.
tons: the Canadian Northern has en-
tered in the new BODYBUILDING
scheme, too, ard will place 30 new
towns on the map as II drives it's B.
900 mile extension through the un-
broken wilderness OF the great Can
adam northwest.
These will not be boom towns, plot
ted and sold to spectators, and then
left TO decay. Every one OF them
will be built because there Is de-
fnand fol- them, and the Canadian gov
ernment immigration bureau has
even now 800 agents in the United
States creating that demand among
the farmers, business men and me-
chanics there. Agents are also busy
in Europe. but the largest portion OF
the population Of thes new towns viii
\ be Americans.
Last year SO. 1872 Americans left their
homes in the states and started life
anew I'm Canada. They brought with
them $50, 100000 In money and prop
erty, for il is not the poorest class
that has come over: IL is rather the
farmer of moderate means, who, dis
satisfied with conditions In the states
finds n virgin country mp here await
ing his pillow. and few, very few, oil
them ever go back except upon tenn
norary visits. II Is estimated that In
the vast 10 years more than hall
. million dollars has been brought over
by the 100000 immigrants from the
States. Las, year, for the first time
since 1908, more Americans came
over than British.
or course the real reason that brings
Che most Of them over Is the chear
land. the homestead land. and us Ter
tiliIy. But other reasons enter int
consideration. too, and they are cheaI
lun Der, cheap clothing and the gen
eral feeling that laws are enforced IT
n much better fashion In the Dominion
of Canada than In the United
They have here also better postal
regulations, 50 that the farmer can
do much Of his shopping by mail.
The government has mapped out a
scheme whereby they will populate
the new towns as fas as the town sites
are lail ont. First, the railroad will
crest a station; then an elevator VIII
no assured OF local market for their
crops. then school building Will be
started. and while all these prepare
lions are under day, the many immi'
grafton agents In the United states
will he "booking" Americans for these
towns and the surrounding farm land
Tor with the exception OF few towns
10 be laid out in the mineral districts
ali will be built in the middle OF fer
tile farm land.
Most OF the American immigrants
will 90 to the district recommended
by the agent, and, as they are sent up
they will be met at the station and
from there shown over the surround
ing country, or If one shows any In
clinatIon to become resident OF the
toyn.to-bc. nothing will suit the imml
grafton officials better. and LOT
where a nice home can be built Is his
for almost the asking. and II he wants
n factory site. why, that's easier still