River Power Company, which is at present 

 under construction and will cost in the neigh- 

 borhood of ten million dollars, will furnish upon 

 completion approximately 168,000 horse power, 

 in addition to that which is already being 

 supplied the city at the present time. The city 

 is in a position to offer to manufacturers a 

 power rate which is the lowest in the whole of 

 North America. 



The present is the West's era, and that of its 

 cities as the centres of rich and growing agricul- 

 tural centres. Winnipeg, as the greatest of these, 

 shares largely, and its future immensity can be 

 visualized in its phenomenal past. From bald 

 prairie to a modern city of magnitude is the 

 history of but a short span of years, and that it 

 is still growing as rapidly as ever is indicated in 

 the building for 1920, which added nearly eight 

 and a half million dollars to the value of the 

 city's fine aggregate value. As there is certainty 

 in the future of the West, so must grow the city 

 which gives entrance to it. 



Immigration for 1920 



Government returns of immigration for the 

 year 1920 show that a total of 147,502 new 

 citizens came to Canada in that year in compari- 

 son with 117,633 in 1919. By countries, 75,807 

 immigrants came from Great Britain, 48,866 

 from the United States, and 22,829 from other 

 countries, comparing with the 1919 figures of 

 British 57,251, United States 52,064, and other 

 countries 8,318. The estimate of 200,000 made 

 by the Canadian Minister of Immigration and 

 Colonization probably failed of achievement by 

 reason of the check put upon the flow into the 

 Dominion by the passing of legislation necessitat- 

 ing the possession of $250 during the winter 

 months by any artisan or laborer desiring entry. 



The world's contribution of new blood to 

 meet the expanding needs of the growing 

 Dominion may, on the whole, after a considera- 

 tion of all circumstances, be regarded as gratify- 

 ing. Whilst the figures are in no wise comparable 

 with those of the years before the war, they 

 indicate that the Dominion, having overcome 

 the harassing circumstances of the vicissitudes 

 through which she has had to pass as a result of 

 the war, is getting^back into her old stride, and 

 that the tendency in immigration is towards the 

 proportions of the pre-war era. The period 

 since the armistice has been one of disturbed 

 economic conditions, and, with the trend of 

 affairs towards normal, immigration is coming 

 back to its old status. 



Contributing Factors to Limitation 



Several factors in 1920 contributed to the 

 limitation of immigration into the Dominion, not 

 the least influential of which was the Dominion's 

 own desire and resolve to effect this end, in 



view of the prevailing state of industrial affairs. 

 The substantial money test was applied at the 

 opening of winter, and in some months, at 

 certain of the ports of entry, more applicants 

 for Canadian citizenship were turned away 

 than were admitted to it. Again, immigration 

 from Europe, even in the case of most desirable 

 classes, was restricted by the extreme difficulty 

 in securing passages. Whilst this may in one 

 light be regarded as a hindrance, in another it 

 makes for an excellent system of nitration. 



Canada has the experiences of other and 

 older countries to learn from in matters of immi- 

 gration, and she is profiting by them to the extent 

 of following a policy of selection, preferring to 

 develop in a slower and solider manner than to 

 swamp the country with undesirables for the 

 sake of filling it up. This sane method of 

 expansion, the Dominion has no difficulty in 

 following. American farmers are awake to the 

 opportunities the cheap lands of Canada offer 

 for more profitable farming and a spreading of 

 energy. The tremendous upheaval in Europe 

 following the war has turned the eyes of the 

 most desirable classes of potential settlers in the 

 British Isles and other European countries 

 towards new homes in Canada. 



It has been said that Canada should aim at 

 five hundred thousand new immigrants a year, 

 but in order to achieve this she is not going to 

 fling her doors wide open. The present rate of 

 immigration and its desirable constituent may be 

 considered satisfactory, in the light of all circum- 

 stances in the Dominion's endeavor of sane and 

 safe development. All indications point to a 

 greater growth in volume, with a maintenance 

 of the same high standard. 



United States Farmers for Canada 



Nearly fifty thousand emigrants came from 

 the United States to Canada in the year 1920 

 to make permanent homes in the Dominion. 

 Practically all of these, it is estimated, were 

 experienced agriculturists who either secured free 

 Government homesteads or purchased improved 

 farms. Whilst this very desirable contribution 

 to Canada's man power, deposited in the manner 

 to best serve Canada's need, is only about one- 

 third of that of the years prior to the war, it is 

 estimated authoritatively that the Dominion 

 received last year, and during the war years, as 

 many farmers from the United States as she 

 was wont to welcome, and that the classes whose 

 emigration fell off due to war conditions were the 

 industrial, the speculative, and others not 

 directly producers. It must also be borne in 

 mind that would-be entrants at the border are 

 sifted as carefully as at ocean ports, and that in 

 the existing internal conditions, in some months, 

 as many applicants at border towns were 

 rejected for Canadian citizenship as were 

 accepted. 



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