The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
CANADA NOW MECCA
 OF BRITISH PEERS Titled English Are Making
 Homes in the Dominion SOME OF THE CAUSES Aristocracy Fears Land Taxes and Other Socialistic Legislation and
 Is Making Heavy Invest ments Across the Seas
SOME OF THE CAUSES

of British peers. Many or them either have decided upon or are contemplating permanent residence there, while others, among them the Duke of Sutherland who | recently was in the United States on his way home from the Dominion, are sell l ing part of their estates here and buying land in Canada. Inquiry. moreover. ere- veals the fact that members of the upper l teno are interested there to degree that | is startling.
 | Some find the reason for this "emigra- I tion'' of English noblemen to Canada in the land taxes imposed by the liberal ad- ministration in this country and fear that I there is more to follow" Another req son advanced for the flight of British peers and their interests across the At lantic is that the death duties In them
 selves are enough to wipe out big I estate should deaths be frequent. There 1 is no profit in land in England nowadays, says another, and the proper mainten- ance of an estate requires large in- come, an illustration of this having been | furnished the other day, when the Hon. Irene Lawley, the representative Of one of the oldest families in this country was 1 forced to relinquish her ancestral home l Be the reasons one or many, however,
 the result is that Canada is beginning I to absorb the aristocracy of this coun- l try as 1t alr>dy is absorbing the dem- ocracy and the middle-class.
 | "Iis lordship is in Canada for three months" "rhey return from their shoot l ing cabin In New Brunswick in the au- | tumn," are quite Frequent statements nowadays A well known cubman la mented the other day, that 'all the fel- lows seem to be in Canada" and straight way arranged to take the journey him. l self Hostesses are in despair at the breaking up of sets.
 | If Canada had to officer several regi- ments of troops in hurry it would be necessary only to search the hotel regis l ters in British Columbia. This is the report of an English writer who has just returned from Canada and who says l that in several towns the majority of | the guests wrote Scots Guards King s 1 Own," etc, after their names. Interest | in Canada has become so widespread that practically every big family has it's asso- citations there. This is true, in a limited | degree, of foreign houses and it is even whispered that the Emperor of Germany
 has responded to the attraction and, as | keen investor, has some of his marks
 earning good interest in a Vancouver proposition, though naturally his name
 does not appear.
 l Lord Aberdeen, the viceroy in Ireland, was one of the first to acquire land in l Canada, and in buying the Coldstream
 estate in British Columbia set the fash l ion which was followed by many other
 peers. His official duties prevent him
 making extensive visits to Canada, but l British Columbia has never lost its att
 traction for him and he frequently ex- ] presses the hope that he may be able to
 eside again within it's borders.
 i An intimate friend of King George,
 Lord Hyde. the future Earl of Clarendon.
 intends to add to his interests in Canada
 and although a high position of state has | been offered to him he will probably es-
 tablsh a Canadian seat and live. for the
 greater part of the year at least, in Brit | ish Columbia.
 1 Lord Hyde is married to a sister of | Lord Somers, another peer who has re-
 gently purchased an estate near Toronto l and taken up residence there with his family "To be useful rather than con spicuous' is the maxim of the Somers | family and in taking up life as Cana ] dian farmer the present peer is certainly giving practical effect to this motto. l Among the British noblemen who are l disposing of their estates here and ac- 1 uuiring holdings in Canada is Lord Yer
 non. Some of the money he obtained from his Derbyshire estates will be in- | vested probably in western Canada. He Is l 1 came to England and the name he bears | has always been famous in English his | tory Sir Henry Vernon was lord ol l Haddon Hall, which was afterward the | home of Dorothy Vernon, whose love af- l fair and elopement with Sir John Man
 ners furnishes so charming a romance | At Haddon Hall. too, Prince Arthur the brother of Henry VII, spent much of his l time with Sir Henry Vernon, who wa: l m tn ttf | prince Sir Richard Vernon is another I member of the family who finds a place I in history. He was speaker of the Leices- | ter parliament in 1425. By marriage the | family claims connection with the house of Leicester, of which several members are keenly interested commercially ir 1 Canada.
 The Hon. Edward Coke, son of the Earl of Leicester is interested in the
 property of hotel in Saskatoon and a l member of a powerful syndicate which | owns a great deal of land in western | Canada It is one of the most effective
 retorts to assertions that British aristo- crats are decadent, to show that they are showing themselves adopts in financial
 matters in Canada, and 1t fs frequently | used by those who feel called on to offer defence. MT. Coke. of course, gets his
 mental gifts from his great ancestor, Sir l Edward Coke, the scholarly lawyer who | framed the petition of right. In consti- | tutional questions the name of Coke Is | one to conjure with.
 l Another of the house of Leicester is
 the Hon. John Henry Coke, son of the l first earl Before the days of railway ex- pansion in western Canada he travelled in the saddle over the Rockies and his vol | ume written on this experience Is one of the few records we have dealing with per | haps the most picturesque period In the l history of western Canada. He still re- 1 the Dominion. Lord Clanwilliam Is a cousin of the Hon. Edward Coke and sits | on the game directorate.
 l Winnipeg and it's vicinity seem to hold | special attractions for British peers, | Lord Hindlip has for some time had 1 large investments in that district and is understand. sailing shortly and will take the opportunity of securing anything that seems to be good. Lord Northcliffe, l too, in addition to his interests in New l foundland and Fort William, is heavily concerned in the prosperity of the western
 city. Sir Thomas Iipton is another man I of title whose keen business acumen has | dictated investment in Manitoba, while l the Hon. A. J. Balfour, the former leader l of the unionist party, many years age
 had the prescience to recognize that there would be rapid appreciation in land values and acted accordingly. Lord Charles | Beresford is associated with the Duke o l Sutherland in his western proposition | and in addition has interests in real es' | tate outside Toronto.
 | Lord Clinton has had affiliations witt l Canada for some years. Lord Congletor
 Is another and is now shooting big game
 In the neighborhood of the Yellowheac