will assist in the carrying out of a large pro- 

 gramme. It is not merely alone the question 

 of housing, as there has been, for some two or 

 three years, a shortage in storage and public 

 buildings and utilities, that must be available 

 to take care of the ever increasing influx of 

 immigrants, and consequent enlargement of 

 trade. As an illustration, the Province of Sas- 

 katchewan in its budget, brought down during 

 the month of December, makes provision for 

 an expenditure of over three million dollars for 

 public buildings, eight hundred and fifty thou- 

 sand for public improvements and one and a 

 half millions for telephones. 



Prospects for immigration would seem to 

 be determined entirely by the amount of space 

 that will be available on ocean liners and the 

 ability of transportation companies to take care 

 of prospective requirements. There is very 

 little doubt that desirable settlers in large 

 numbers will come to the Canadian West 

 during the coming year, and this factor, together 

 with the prospective amount of building and 

 reclamation schemes, irrigation works, railway 

 construction, re-opening of lumber mills, manu- 

 facturing enterprises, more activity in mining 

 centres, both on the prairies and in British 

 Columbia, bids fair to make the year one of 

 pronounced trading value. 



C.P.O.S. Atlantic Summer Season 



By Andrew McDuff, Colonization Agent, C.PR. 



Of first importance in national construction, 

 in so far as an immature expanding country 

 such as Canada is concerned, is the question of 

 immigration the flow of new blood and peoples 

 to make future citizens of the country. 



The various steamship companies play a big 

 part in Canadian immigration traffic, and their 

 operations have a direct effect upon the manner 

 in which it is conducted and regulated, and on 

 other matters of kindred importance to the 

 future of the country and the peoples they are 

 introducing. By co-operation, active and moral, 

 with the government authorities, many trivial 

 issues, which badly handled might later turn 

 into vexing questions, are obviated, or in some 

 manner satisfactorily adjusted. 



Made 76 Trans-Atlantic Voyages 



The greater portion of Europe's emigrants to 

 Canada are served by the C.P.O.S., and thite 

 year the closing of the waterway of the St. 

 Lawrence for the winter season saw the con- 

 clusion of a record season. From May 3rd, 

 when the "Victorian," sailing up the St. Law- 

 rence opened the summer season, till November 

 28th, when the departure of the "Empress of 

 France" from Quebec signalized its end, the 



thirteen vessels serving the Atlantic (and the 

 temporarily loaned Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm 

 which made four trips under the company's 

 flag) made seventy-six trans-Atlantic voyages. 



In the course of these trips from Europe, a 

 total of approximately 97,000 passengers were 

 carried to Canada. From records kept nearly 

 64,000 of these were newcomers who declared 

 their intention of remaining in the country, 

 making permanent homes and becoming Cana- 

 dian citizens. The grand total of passengers, 

 east and westbound, was 150,698. 



Of these incoming embryo citizens, the over- 

 whelming majority were British from the United 

 Kingdom, whilst our allies, France and Belgium, 

 contributed a more than ordinary quota to the 

 flow. Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Holland 

 were likewise well represented, and lesser streams 

 proceeded from Spain, Poland, Italy, Greece, 

 Finland, Roumania and other European 

 countries. 



The striking characteristic of the crowds seen 

 landing at Canadian ports from these vessels 

 has been the consistent high type of emigrant, 

 in harmony with the Dominion's policy of 

 selected immigration. New settlers from the 

 British Isles have been of this order, and the 

 steady stream, that has made a course from the 

 port of entry to the fertile western plains, has 

 taken with it much capital. 



France, Belgium, Holland and Scandinavia 



From France, Belgium, and Holland most of 

 the entrants have been specialized agricul- 

 turalists with capital of both experience and 

 wealth ready to go on the land immediately and 

 become producing assets. 



The Scandinavian countries contributed 

 many experienced farmers who, having disposed 

 of their holdings in the old lands, were financially 

 and intelligently capable of commencing new 

 operations without undue delay. Generally 

 speaking, the European settlers of the past sum- 

 mer season have been of the class of which 

 desirable citizens can be made without any but 

 their own efforts. 



As an organization interested in national pro- 

 gress and development along sound lines, the 

 Company is desirous of seeing that emigrants 

 turn their feet in the right direction in order to 

 achieve prosperity in whatever lines they propose 

 to follow. To aid, in view of the large numbers 

 of travellers who have no knowledge of English, 

 an interpreter has been placed on each of the 

 Company's vessels sailing from European ports. 

 This measure has already justified itself in the 

 assistance it has offered, not only to the emi- 

 grants who are continually seeking information 

 on a multitude of matters, but to the ship's 

 officers and the emigration authorities in facili- 

 tating their work with the passengers. 



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