centage of even city dwellers own their own, 

 houses or flats which never become homes in 

 the best sense of the term. Those who dwell 

 therein are at the perpetual mercy of landlords, 

 of whims and circumstances; home becomes 

 merely a temporary habitation; they may have 

 to pull up anchor at any time and pass off as 

 ships to other ports. At the best it is a confined 

 space, limited by walls of brick, fortunate if 

 possessing a few feet of garden, a constrained 

 and tightened atmosphere, an air breathed in 

 common with a mass. 



The man who truly owns a home is the far- 

 mer whose every activity radiates from his habi- 

 tation. From his house, shabby- or pretentious, 

 he surveys the broad acres about him in that 

 sweet knowledge of absolute possession, in the 

 realization that the fruitful land is his for all 

 time and can never be taken from him. There 

 is a satisfaction in owning a farm, apart from the 

 palpable pleasures of revenue, which nothing else 

 in life exactly imparts every operation and 

 improvement reacts to the owner's benefit and 

 aggrandizement. Nearly all landless city men 

 experience this vision at one time or another, 

 but not all have the courage or the ability to 

 follow it into reality. 



The Lure of the Home 



Canada is one of the few countries remaining 

 at the present stage which offers opportunities 

 to men of all ranks, even those of little worldly 

 wealth, to establish permanent homes to be 

 theirs and their posterity's for all time. Pre- 

 eminently Canada is a land of homes and a land 

 of vacant spaces waiting for further homes. 

 Here the landless, for nothing or the proverbial 

 song, may secure rich virgin lands of extensive 

 acreage which they need not leave until their 

 mortal days are ended. Here the city dweller 

 tired of the perpetual daily grind, of the mono- 

 tonous, visionless prospect, of the weekly wage 

 which must stretch to cover so many expend- 

 itures, can, with little capital, arrive at his dreams 

 of the out o' doors with work that holds a change 

 in its every day, to live on nature's bounti- 

 ness without rent to pay, and expenditures and 

 taxes minimized. 



Thousands have effected it. Each year 

 thousands of others who never knew the real 

 meaning of home are finding its true significance 

 on the Canadian expanse. Canadian farmers 

 comprise men of all stations, all ranks, all trades 

 and professions, as many men from the cities as 

 spent their youth on the farm. The lure of the 

 land has seized them, the desire of a home has 

 drawn them to the country which has so many 

 homes to offer them. 



Canada has satisfied them in furnishing the 

 security they sought of a permanent haven for 

 life, a piece of the earth to be theirs for all time, 

 truly an ancestral dwelling; in its most com- 

 prehensive sense Home. 



Motion Pictures in Canada 



One of the newest born of Canadian industries, but 

 one which has achieved such signal initial success as to 

 leave no shadow of doubt as to its future importance to 

 the Dominion, is the motion picture industry. Not only 

 is Canada coming to use motion pictures to an ever in- 

 creasing extent in every phase of her national existence, 

 but her home manufactured films, distributed broadcast, 

 are widely advertising the Dominion in the most effective 

 manner, her beauties, her opportunities, her industries, 

 and her agricultural progress. The fact that Canadian 

 produced and manufactured films have been so favorably 

 accepted and commented upon in all parts of the world 

 is proof of the high standard of Canadian production, a 

 bright augur for the future of the industry. 



There is no reason why Canada should not attain 

 prominence in the motion picture industry, and at the 

 present time much of the material she might be using 

 is going to the building up of the industry in other countries 

 and the Dominion being exploited in every utilizable 

 phase. There is no greater world interest than in the 

 various activities of a young nation in the building and 

 developing stages where the romance of tradition blends 

 with the materialism of modern construction. Canadian 

 scenery is unsurpassed and attracts thousands of tourists 

 and sightseers every year, whereas the motion picture can 

 and does bring these same beauties before millions who 

 are not in a position to travel. Furthermore, it has been 

 adjudged by experts that the Canadian climate lends 

 itself in a particular manner to open air camera work, and 

 in this is found one of the reasons of the high quality of 

 Canadian-made motion pictures. 



Canada is importing positive film to the extent of more 

 than a million and a half dollars a year. In 1921 she im- 

 ported to the extent of $29,581 from the United Kingdom, 

 $1,629,424 from the United States, and $1,887 from other 

 countries. From the little nucleus created, with all her 

 advantages, it is hoped to build up the Dominion industry 

 until she is meeting all her own needs. 



Dominion and Provincial Production 



It is in profiting by her natural advantages that Canada 

 has made her initial successes in moving pictures in the 

 scenic picture and travelogue, the industrial and educa- 

 tional film. Firms in Montreal, Toronto and Calgary are 

 engaged in this kind of work and have succeeded in making 

 the Canadian travel picture famous, to be encountered 

 in theatres in all parts of the world. Many dramas of 

 excellent workmanship have also been produced in Canada, 

 notably the cinema versions of the works of James Oliver 

 Curwood and Ralph Connor. 



The great value of motion pictures in advertising and 

 educational work has long been recognized by the Domi- 

 nion and provincial governments, the railways and 

 larger industrial organizations. The Dominion govern- 

 ment makes use of them extensively in practically every 

 department. The Department of Trade and Commerce 

 has a notable list of films depicting all the economic 

 phases of Canadian life. They are used most successfully 

 in advertising the Dominion abroad and are of incompar- 

 able value in bringing before peoples of the old world 

 the conditions and customs awaiting them in the new 

 land and so preparing them for national assimilation. 



Ontario has a motion picture bureau which is busily 

 engaged in advertising the province elsewhere as well 

 as carrying on an energetic educational campaign in the 

 rural districts. All branches ot the provincial government 

 make use of the bureau as an aid in their work. Motion 

 pictures have been adopted as an integral part of the 

 agricultural extension work of the province of Manitoba 

 in all the phases of agricultural work and in the line 

 of lighter entertaining propaganda. Exchange is made 

 with the film productions of other provinces. Saskat- 

 chewan has a similar bureau co-ordinating the moving pic- 

 ture activities of the various government departments 

 and the University. 



