came from Indiana, completing the quota of 

 the first twenty states. 



The remaining states saw their citizens leave 

 for Canada in ever dwindling numbers from 

 Vermont's 497 to the 27 from New Mexico and 

 Mississippi. Agriculture primarily attracted 

 them, and from those states where farming is a 

 leading pursuit they came north to acquire new 

 lands in the desire to expand either for themselves 

 or their growing families. 



United States emigration has been an impor- 

 tant factor in the past in Canadian development, 

 and it is gratifying at the present day to note 

 the tendency of this exodus to get back to its pre- 

 war proportions. 



New Canadian Immigrational Terminal 



By S. L. Cullen, General Publicity Department, 

 C.P.R., Montreal. 



There has been completed this winter, at the 

 port of St. John, New Brunswick, a new immi- 

 gration terminal which is claimed to be the most 

 complete immigration terminal accommodation 

 on the North Atlantic seaboard, and provides 

 adequately for the comfort and convenient 

 handling of every man, woman and child who 

 enters this country from European ports. 



During the past season from the opening to 

 the closing of navigation, nearly 100,000 passen- 

 gers were handled by C.P.R. boats alone, 64,000 

 of whom declared their intention of going on the 

 land. During the winter months of December, 

 January, February and March, 4,000 immigrants 

 have passed through the St. John terminal, 1,187 

 of whom are classed as farmers, the balance 

 laborers, mechanics, traders, miners, domestic 

 servants, etc. 



The difficulties in the past in handling an 

 abnormal passenger traffic have been largely 

 overcome through the installation of this 

 terminal. The superiority of the new accommo- 

 dation lies mainly in the provision for continuous 

 handling of passengers through immigration, 

 baggage, ticket and other departments without 

 their exposure to weather and other inconveni- 

 ence in journeying to and fro in unprotected dock 

 sheds. The confusion and delay incident to the 

 prompt handling of quantities of baggage from 

 the largest of ships has now been provided for. 



Convenient Handling of Newcomers and Effects 



The building is five hundred feet by sixty and 

 has a well covered platform on both sides. Three 

 lines of tracks are located immediately in the 

 rear of the wharf sheds. Baggage is loaded into 

 cars on one side of the shed and passengers 

 entrained from the other, sliding doors being 

 provided at frequent intervals on both. Electric 

 lighted, steam-heated and well ventilated, it is 

 proving a valuable factor in rapid embarkation 

 to waiting trains. 



In designing the new immigration quarters, 

 every consideration has been paid to the comfort 

 of the incoming settler. The social side has con- 

 sideration in the fact that British-born, both men 

 and women, have special dormitories and 

 quarters, and like arrangements and comforts 

 are provided for foreign-born. The interior work 

 throughout the buildings is excellent, the floors in 

 polished hardwood, the walls and ceilings in 

 pedlar metal sheeting, harmoniously painted in 

 two shades of gray. 



The result is a building, commodious, com- 

 fortable, bright and sanitary. 



Debarkation and Inspection 



Passengers are landed from the ship's gang- 

 way on the floor of the wharf shed through an 

 inclined covered passage-way. In the Immigra- 

 tion Hall separate examination rooms are pro- 

 vided for Canadian and U.S. services. After 

 examination, the passengers emerge into a 

 railway ticketing hall, where tickets can be 

 obtained for Canadian Pacific and Canadian 

 National Railways. Refreshments may also be 

 purchased for the train journey by those who do 

 not wish to make use of dining cars. The pas- 

 sengers then enter another covered passage-way 

 which leads across the tracks at high level and 

 then down an inclined rampway into the middle 

 of the baggage shed. Baggage is brought ashore 

 and placed in the shed before passengers are 

 landed, where it is claimed, examined and 

 checked as soon as ticketing is completed. 



The waiting room is filled with wall seats in 

 the form of three sides of a square in each 

 structural bay, and has a seating capacity for 

 three hundred persons. It has toilet accommo- 

 dation of modern sanitary type and a nursery, 

 fitted with cots and chairs. This is operated by 

 the Red Cross Society and children's food may 

 be prepared on an electric stove. Children's 

 clothes may here be washed and dried in a 

 special rack. 



The waiting rooms are sheathed with Douglas 

 Fir, natural finish, and are well lighted with large 

 windows. Emergency exit is provided by means 

 of an inclined rampway to the ground. 



The new quarters are reached from an 

 examination room in the upper floor by means of 

 an open bridge across the intervening tracks at 

 high level. The entrance from this bridge is into 

 the large recreation room. In the men's quarters, 

 a large dormitory and a small dormitory are 

 provided for foreign men and a small dormitory 

 for British men, also disinfecting toilet and bath 

 room. The dining room and kitchen are on this 

 floor. A central corridor leads to an emergency 

 exit with a rampway to the ground from the end 

 of the building 



The Women's Quarters 



A separate passage-way leads off to the 

 women's quarters. Here are large dormitories 



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