Canadians from other districts or newcomers from other 

 lands. The land is consistently a good clay loam, perhaps 

 particularly suited to dairying and kindred activities 

 Open spaces occur among light timber and brush. For 

 the convenience of settlers twelve sawmills are operating 

 in the district, whilst there is a market for small supplies 

 of pulpwood at local plants. 



All the pioneering in this district has been effected, and 

 the newcomer makes his home in an established community 

 with social life developed, good roads built, the fertility 

 of the land proven and markets developed. The intro- 

 duction of the railroad, which other settlers have had to 

 wait years to see, gives him instant touch with his markets 

 and direct communication with the Canadian Pacific main 

 line in the south. Nowhere can he get far away from 

 Lake Temiskaming with its conveniences and beauties. 

 It is an unique settlement opportunity. 



Brighter Immigration Prospects 



In the early months of the summer, Canada 

 is experiencing a pronounced revival in immi- 

 gration and there is ample evidence that the 

 period of drastic restriction and positive dis- 

 couragement has not killed interest in Canada 

 and that faith in the Dominion as a bourne of 

 new hope is as buoyant as ever. Canada is 

 facing better immigration prospects than she 

 has for some little time. The opening of the 

 doors a little wider has but disclosed the dammed- 

 up state of the stream which, given freer release, 

 is pouring in fuller force over the Dominion. 

 Immigration, however, cannot be so exactly 

 regulated, and the exodus of immigrants is the 

 culmination of months of consideration, so that 

 the full effects of the recent immigration con- 

 cessions will not be experienced for some time, 

 in all probability not before the spring of 1923. 



The lowering of the barriers has had a 

 further-reaching effect than the entry into the 

 country of many formerly debarred by reasons 

 of financial stringency. It has had a moral 

 effect. The restriction was rightly regarded as 

 an indication of Canada's internal economic 

 condition, and many persons and families of 

 comfortable means contemplating Canadian 

 settlement were discouraged from doing so. In 

 the removal is seen the first blush of the dawn of 

 better days, and consequently many of those 

 arriving are in a condition to establish rapidly and 

 securely. 



The high desirability of those entering 

 Canada at the present time is indeed pronounced. 

 The concessions to popular demand for a wider 

 door to immigrants did not include any lowering 

 of the standard demanded, and those coming 

 into the country are subject to the same require- 

 ments which have prevailed for years. Canada 

 has successfully impressed on those countries 

 from which she draws her people, that her prime 

 and crying need is for those who will go on the 

 land, and of those entering the country the bulk 

 is composed of agriculturists or intending 

 agriculturists. There is a substantial pro- 

 portion of domestic servants and of classes of 

 labor whose services are required at the moment. 



Many Countries Contributing 



Every country which has formerly contri- 

 buted to Canada's population has resumed its 

 mission to these shores. Immigration for the 

 first quarter of the year was about fifty per 

 cent from across the international border, and 

 prospects are that many more United States 

 farmers will come up to Canada during the 

 course of the summer and fall. British immi- 

 gration is of a healthy and desirable order, of 

 sturdy composition, and frequently heavily 

 capitalized. Many Scottish farmers have al- 

 ready arrived this year, and in addition to the 

 personally conducted parties of intending farmers 

 from England there have been valuable parties 

 of skilled crofters from the Hebrides. Some 

 members of the demobilized Royal Irish Con- 

 stabulary, aided by the Imperial government, 

 have already arrived and settled in Canada and 

 others are to come before the end of the year. 

 At present Canadian agents are in India with 

 expectations of inducing demobilized Imperial 

 army officers in that country to invest their 

 gratuities and compensations in British Columbia 

 lands. Mention should also be made of the 

 splendid work which is being performed by the 

 Salvation Army in bringing out parties of 

 domestics and ex-service men from the British 

 Isles, assisting them in procuring passage, and 

 finding them positions on arrival. 



Though Canadian immigration falls broadly 

 into the two classes, British and American, 

 many European people^ have contributed in a 

 large measure to the agricultural development 

 of the Western provinces, and it is gratifying to 

 note the same healthy interest in Canada evinced 

 by the most desirable of these. The personally 

 conducted land party has proved an excellent 

 colonization method in the case of people from 

 the British Isles intending settling on Canadian 

 lands and unacquainted with conditions, and 

 this has been extended to other peoples, and 

 sturdy bands of citizens from Holland, Norway 

 and Denmark have been conducted under 

 expert guidance from their old homes to 

 Canadian farms. 



An Awakening of Interest 



The operation of a direct steamship service 

 from Italy to Canada bears prospect of a sub- 

 stantial volume of immigrants from that source, 

 which the first vessels to arrive tend to further 

 substantiate. The operation of a similar direct 

 line to Norway will doubtless have similar results. 

 Vessels running from the continent of Europe 

 within the past month have borne freight of 

 Serbians, Poles, Swiss, Roumanians, Dutch, 

 Jugo-Slavs, French, Danish, Norwegians, Swedes, 

 Finns and Lithuanians. All have constituted 

 fine, desirable citizen-building material, as the 

 few detentions and lesser deportations bear 

 testimony. Furthermore the disturbed indus- 

 trial conditions of the New England states have 



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