amounting to only 7,921 in 1897. Year by year, 

 however, it consistently increased in volume, 

 reaching the fifty thousand status in 1906, and 

 the hundred thousand in 1910. It arrived at its 

 zenith in 1913, the year prior to the outbreak 

 of the war, with a total of 139,009 citizens 

 added to Canada's people. From 1914 to 1919, 

 as all causes contributed to keep peoples at 

 home, returns dwindled tremendously, and im- 

 migration for the fiscal year just passed 

 amounted to 48,059, or about one-third that of 

 1913. Indications are however that interest in 

 Canada is again dom- 

 inant across the border, 

 and that the figures' of 

 pre-war days will short- 

 ly be recorded again. 



Two pleasing features 

 of United States im- 

 migration, as compared 

 for instance with that 

 from the British Isles, 

 are that such a large 

 portion of its members 

 finds its way to the 

 land where Canadian 

 development is funda- 

 mentally centered, and 

 that in their possession 

 of wealth per capita 

 they exceed any other 

 contributing nation. 



It is unfortunately 

 not possible to state, or 

 evenly accurately esti- 

 mate, the numbers or 

 proportion of United 

 States immigrants who 

 have become Canadian 

 farmers, but it is sig- 

 nificant that in the ten- 

 year period 1901-1911, 

 of the 175,781 United 

 States citizens who ar- 

 rived in Canada to 

 make permanent homes 

 165,896 settled in the 

 four western provinces 

 with their newly-opened 

 areas of fertile, agri- 

 cultural lands. In the past quarter century of 

 all the homestead entries, twenty-six per cent, 

 were made by farmers from across the line, and 

 in conjunction with this it must be remember- 

 ed that most United States farmers come to 

 Canada with substantial wealth and prefer to 

 purchase private or improved land. 



In the year 1920 of the 48,866 immigrants 

 from the United States, 16,177, or roughly one- 

 third, declared their intention of going on the 

 land. In 1919 United States immigrants 



brought with them an average of $342 each 

 and in 1920, $372. 



Canada's Climate 



Actuated by apprehension that the people 

 of the United States may get false ideas about 

 Canada's winter climate from the stories of 

 the experience of the balloonists, the organi- 

 zation committee of the American Chamber of 

 Commerce in Canada has sent out a bulletin, 

 whose purpose is to prevent such result. 



The bulletin begins with the statement that 



' Moving picture dramas 

 have already spread an 

 erroneous impression in 

 the United States. 

 Canada invariably is 

 pictured as a snowbound 

 Arctic wilderness where 

 the inhabitants wear 

 furs and snowshoes. 

 Many of these 'Canad- 

 ian scenes' are filmed in 

 the Sierra Nevada 

 mountains in California. 

 These pictures havebuilt 

 a myth wholly false 

 about Canadian winters 

 that has retarded the 

 the settlement of the 

 Canadian prairies, which 

 are so wonderfully fert- 

 ile that farms frequently 

 pay for themselves in a 

 single crop of wheat." 



Then it goes on to say 

 that the fact is that 

 winter in the cultivated 

 section of western 

 Canada is hardly more 

 rigorous than in any part 

 of the United States, 

 in the latitude of Chic- 

 ago and New York, and 

 the cold of the northern 

 states is felt far more 

 keenly because of the 

 greater humidity. The 

 cold of western Canada 

 is dry and bracing. 



Lie Within Moderating Influences 



Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia 

 all lie within the moderating influence of the 

 chinook winds that carry warmth far inland 

 from the Japan current that washes the Pa- 

 cific coast. These winds temper the climate 

 far east of the Rockies. Long periods of sun- 

 shiny days make the winter of western Canada 



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