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Agricultural and Industrial 

 Progress in Canada 



A monthly review of Agricultural and Industrial progress in Canada, 

 published by the Department of Colonization and Development of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway at Montreal, Canada. 



VOL. 3 No. 1 



MONTREAL 



January, 1921 



Live and Let Live 



THE Northeastern Michigan Development 

 Bureau has issued a neat little pamphlet 

 in which is graphically set forth the 

 attractions of Northeastern Michigan as a pros- 

 perous farming country and one offering excel- 

 lent opportunities to the settler. 



Canada has no quarrel with the Michigan 

 Development Bureau, whose booklet is well 

 printed, well illustrated, informative and attrac- 

 tive; nor any criticism of the opportunities and 

 advantages of settlement in Northern Michigan, 

 but when we read the statement that 



"Since the West is gone, 

 so far as cheap land is 

 concerned, and North- 

 western Canada is not 

 producing the desired re- 

 sults for good, practical 

 farmers not bent on the 

 gambling chances for over- 

 night riches, attention is 

 directed to Michigan," 



we cease commendation 

 and take up the issue. 



The days when state- 

 ments of this kind used 

 to appear in our neighbor's literature and press 

 have pretty well gone by, and, to be frank, we 

 must express appreciation of many good things 

 said of us from time to time by the United 

 States press. They have been generous; they 

 have realized that Senator Smoot's remark 

 that "Neither patriotism nor sentiment will 

 prevent a man from going where he can better 

 his condition," is incontrovertible, and it applies 

 equally to emigration from this country. 



A farmer who stakes his all on one crop, or 

 who fails to conserve the fertility of the soil 

 through lack of rotation, may well be called a 

 gambler, and undoubtedly there have been and 

 are such farmers in Canada as elsewhere, but 

 that Western Canadian soil does not produce 

 desirable results for practical farmers is a foolish 

 and untruthful statement. Faint praise has 

 damned many a good thing, and that there may 



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outlook for 1921 is what we make 

 JL it. If we believe in the intrinsic 

 stability of Canada; if we meet our 

 problems with confidence; if we think 

 success instead of failure; if we talk pro- 

 gress instead of stagnation; if we prooe 

 our faith in ourselves and our country by 

 earnest, honest work ' then no one can 

 doubt the outcome. '.' 



be no doubt whatsoever in the minds of those 

 who are not well informed as to what Western 

 Canadian soil can produce and what Canadian 

 farmers have done during the past year, here 

 are a few records of accomplishment, picked at 

 random from many published statements by 

 the press of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Mani- 

 toba. 



Hassar, Alberta, June, 1920. Convinced of the 

 high value of the land in his sector, E. J. Harper, an 

 American farmer here, has purchased two sections of 

 land in addition to his holdings of 1,210 acres. In 

 spite of last year's dry season, Mr. .Harper raised 

 24,000 bushels of wheat and 10,000 bushels of oats. 

 So satisfied was he of the possibilities of the land 

 that he put back his profits into the soil, and the 



whole of the two sections are 

 [ being put under cultivation 



this year. 



Regina, Saskatchewan, 

 September, 1920. 100,000 

 Americans will settle in 

 Western Canada during the 

 next year according to opinions 

 expressed by bankers, business 

 men and farmers from across 

 the line, who recently made a 

 3,000-mile excursion through 

 the Prairie Provinces. "The 



trip has been a revelation to 



me," said one Michigan busi- 

 ness man, and " I backed my faith in Canada with my 

 money," stated a Kansan, who had purchased holdings 

 in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Another in the party, 

 an Illinoisian, said, "We are carrying back home the 

 message of the West, a message of welcome to a 

 Land of Opportunity. A great wave of immigration 

 is inevitable." 



Winnipeg, Manitoba, May, 1920. Thirty 

 settlers from Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin 

 arrived here one day last week, and 58 carloads of 

 settlers' effects reached the Swan River Valley. One 

 hundred American families are settling in the Swan 

 River District, a number of whom will produce crops 

 this year. 



A knock often becomes a boost like a 

 boomerang, it comes back. No good end is 

 obtained by controversion of facts; no lasting 

 advantage by running down your neighbor. 

 Live and let live. There is room for everybody 

 and to spare. Speak only the truth and shame 



