Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1921-07-07
LAND IN DEMAND
Why Western Canada Can Take
Her Pick of Settlers.
Opportunities and Conditions There
Appeal to the Most Desirable-Pos-
sibilities of Country Proved.

While Canada wants settlers. and is
pursuing every legitimate means to-
secure them, it is realized as pointed
out by Hon. j. A. Calder, minister of
immigration and colonization, that Sc
lection is necessary, and in order to
keep undesirabeS out of the country
legislation is passed that will doubt
less have this effect. As pointed out
by the minister, the class of settlers
which Canada stands most ready to
welcome are those who desire:
Opportunity to acquire good farm
land, either free or at cost within
their means.
Opportunity to live in a country I'M
der healthful conditions and liberal
laws and among an intelligent and
friendly people.
Opportunity to live in a country
where children receive free public edu-
cation and where all children are en-
abled to start in the battle of life with,
as nearly as possible, equal advan-
tages.
Opportunity to live in a country
where industry applied to the land
will produce something more than the
bare necessities of life, and will afford
within reasonable time comfort and
Independence
Opportunity to live in a country
where ambition is not handicapped by
any creed, birth, or class. but where
every citizen has the right to aspire
to the highest position in his or her
chosen walk in life.
These are the conditions which will
appeal to the most desirable people
for this or any country, conditions
which, to a certain degree, make an
automatic selection of the fittest.
Canada possesses farm lands in
large areas which may be had free or
at a cost within the reach of the set
tier of limited means. Vast areas are
available for settlement within reason
able distances of railways. Land val
ues have in the last quarter Of a cen-
fury received a tremendous impetus,
so that any good farm land which can
still be secured in its raw state at
reasonable prices is an attraction.
Such lands today are probably more
attractive to the settler than were the
free hOmeSteads of the pioneer era.
The country has been tried out; its
possibilities have been proved; the
trails have been blaZed; the founda-
tons have been laid Railroads, tele-
phones and public roads have been
provided; market towns dot the prai-
ries and other agricultural districts;
schools, churches and all the marks
of modern conditions of life abound.
Records which have been taken over
a period Of years establish the fact
that Western Canada's grain produC-
ton is greater per acre than that Of
probably any other new country. 1t is
worthy of note that the production of
grain per acre in many of the Older
countries has increased with the in
tenStied farming methods which the
very high cost of land made necessary.
This condition does not yet obtain to-
any extent in Canada, and yet the
yield compares favOrahly with some
such countries in which the cost Of
land is very much greater than it is
in the farming districts of the Do
minion. In most cases present owners
of Canadian farm land who are not
cultivating 1t themselves are willing
to sell at moderate prices and on
terms arranged for the convenience Of
the purchaser, provided that the pur-
chaser is prepared to 20 into actual
operation and bring the land under
cultivation and cause it to produce.
That is the kind of settler which Cam
ada wants and to whom it extends
open observation-disclosures.