The St. Johns herald., 1922-09-07
FLOCK TO CANADA
Immigrants of High Order Set
 ting on Western Plains.
Removal of Restrictions Necessary Dur ing the War Has Shown Worlds
 Faith I1 Dominion's Future.

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 and for while after its close, there
 was put into operation by the Canadian government legislation restricting cer-
 tain classes and people of the countries
 which were not lined Ep with the allied | nations from being admitted to Canada.
 This was quite necessary, and the req
 sons for it will be so apparent that
 they need not be given. However, the
 time came, in the early summer of this
 year, when 1t was deemed possible to
 remove some of these restrictions. It
 was found that there were many who
 came under their ruling that were of
 class that Canada needed and who
 needed Canada. The restrictions,
 doubtless, were drastic, but were need
 ful. The news of their removal, sent
 broadcast, has met with such re-
 spOnse as to give ample evidence that they had not killed interest in Canada,
 and that faith in the Dominion as a country where a new existence, happy and fruitful, was as complete as ever. AS has been stated by one writer deal ing with this subject, "the opening of the doors a little wider has but dis closed the dammed-up state of the stream, which, given freer release, is pouring in fuller force over the Do miniOn."
 AS to the moral effect of the legisla- tiOn that enabled these restrictions to be carried out, it showed that while Canada was seeking settlers, it's lands and it's homes were not intended as a shelter for those unable to meet the standard set as Canada'S laws of civ ilization, the concessions which have removed these restrictions still have in view the maintenance of this stand ard, and those who are still allowed in are subject to the same require ments that have prevailed for years. As pointed out by the writer previously quoted, Canada has successfully inn pressed on those countries from which she draws her people that her prime and crying need is for those who will go on land, and of those entering the country the bulk is composed of agri- culturists. Every country which nas formerly contributed to Canada's pop ulation has resumed its mission to its shores.
 "The lowering of the barriers has had a farther-reaching effect than the entry into the country of many for merly debarred by reasons of financial stringency. It has had a moral effect. The restriction was rightly regarded as an indication of Canada's internal economic condition, and many persons and families of comfortable means con- templating Canadian settlement were discouraged from doing so. In the re- moval is seen the first blush of the dawn of better days and consequently many of those arriving are in condi- tion to establish rapidly and securely.
 Though Canadian immigration falls broadly into the two classes, British and American, many European peoples have contributed in a large measure to the agricultural development of the Western provinces, and it is gratifying to note the same healthy interest in Canada evinced by the most desirable of these.
 Amongst those from the European countries are Serbians, Poles, Swiss, Dutch, Jugo-Slavs, Danish, Norwegians, Swedes, Films and Lithuanians. All have con- stituted fine, desirable citizen-building material, as the few detentions and lesser deportatiOns bear testimony. the disturbed industrial of the New England states have resulted in the commencement of an exodus of French Canadian families back to their old homes, which may reach an appreciable size.
 "On all sides this awakening of in- terest is evident. It is new faith borne on the crest of the wave of brighter prospects, the dawn of fuller in the continued inability of many other countries to emerge from the economic slough into which the war plunged them, of the desirabil Ity of Canada as a country more rapid y throwing off it's pOst-bellum depres- sion, and it's great place in the worlds immediate future.
 British migration is of a healthy | and desirable order, of sturdy com position, and frequently heavily capi- .alized. Many Scottish farmers have already arrived this year."
 Every state in the Union is con- its quota, and joining with hose who have been in Canada for number of years in the work of re- claiming the virgin prairie of the great plains of the West and converting them nto immense fields of golden grain ,r its grasses into fodder for the dairy .Ow or the fattening steer.-Advertise