industry. For a time the industry was in a 

 more or less stagnant position, with ware- 

 houses packed with salmon and a limited 

 market. At this time the Alaskan and Japanese 

 canners were providing keen competition and 

 the British Columbia canners found it difficult 

 to dispose of their better grades. An active 

 campaign in the British Isles advocating the 

 more extensive use of British Columbia salmon 

 has been productive of results, and judging 

 from reports the marketing of the pack this 

 year will be satisfactorily accomplished. The 

 movement of the new pack to consuming 

 markets this year commenced early, some 75,000 

 cases having been shipped up to the end of 

 August, with space engagements heavy for the 

 ensuing two months. 



An Immigration Conference 



A conference of some moment and fraught with 

 considerable significance to Canada's immediate future 

 recently sat at Ottawa. There the important transpor- 

 tation interests of Canada, rail and steamship, met with 

 the immigration officials of the Dominion Government 

 to request changes in the immigration system and regu- 

 lations which would permit of a greater flow to Canada of 

 those peoples which had from long establishment in 

 Canada proven their desirability for Dominion citizen- 

 ship. They urged the promotion of a wide and aggressive 

 campaign of advertising and publicity on the part of the 

 Government to disabuse the minds of these people and 

 eradicate the opinion, which inaction has engendered in 

 the past few years in certain directions, that Canada 

 no longer desired immigrants and no longer offered the 

 opportunities to newcomers she once did. 



The conference comes as the climax to what is prac- 

 tically the concerted voice of the Canadian people; it is 

 the final assault coming on top of a series of individual 

 batterings. Patriotic societies have demanded legislation 

 which would enable Canada to share to a greater extant 

 in the human tide leaving Britain's shores. Boards of 

 Trade, national and political clubs and organizations of 

 all kinds have in no unmistakable terms expressed them- 

 selves as desiring re-enactment of the immigration laws 

 to enable Canada to secure greater population. Members 

 of Parliament have expressed personal and unofficial 

 views divergent from those of the Government, and 

 private individuals have deluged the press with their 

 definitely thought-out convictions that immigration was 

 the only solution to Canada's pressing problems. The 

 last note in this voice of popular sentiment came from 

 the Canadian Trades and Labor Congress, which passed 

 a resolution asking broadly for a greater supply of new 

 labor in Canada. 



What is Wanted 



What the transportation interests of Canada have 

 asked is a virtual resumption of the old system of im- 

 migration which has prevailed for so long and which is 

 universally recognized as having brought results prior 

 to the war. They ask for an immediate campaign of 

 wide propaganda on the part of the Government, from 

 whom it should rightly originate, to present Canadian 

 opportunity to those considering immigration. They 

 ask for the careful consideration of the Empire Settlement 

 Scheme whereby $15,000,000 is made available annually 

 by the Imperial Government for settlement purposes to 

 the Dominions furnishing like amounts. They ask for 

 the revision of the continuous passage clause so as to 

 permit the entry of desirable colonists from selected 

 countries irrespective of where they start their journey 



to Canada. They advise more liberal regulations for the 

 admission of colonists coming to Canada upon prepaid 

 tickets furnished by friends or relatives, and that greater 

 consideration be given certain European countries desiring 

 financial aid for their nationals who desire to emigrate 

 to the Dominion. Among other matters strongly urged 

 is that of the utilization of the Dominion experimental 

 farms for the training of young men and women from the 

 British Isles and their subsequent financial aid in becoming 

 agriculturists, as well as the widest possible extension 

 of child immigration. 



Canada, at the conclusion of the war, was led to believe 

 she would receive a tremendous volume of immigration, 

 which was only shut off by her policy of discouragement 

 and definite-limiting legislation. Transportation inter- 

 ests had provided greatly increased equipment for 

 this traffic which never materialized, much of which is 

 necessarily idle. Figures of immigration since the war, 

 due to the effects of Canadian policy and the aggressive 

 methods of other Dominions, have gradually declined, 

 so that the year 1922 is exhibiting very considerable 

 depression. 



Real Need of More People 



Apart from this, however, immigration is the prime 

 national need, and as such is realized by all the leaders of 

 thought and action in the country. Even in Canada's 

 present status the population is not always adequate to 

 the work undertaken. In the fall months of the year, 

 due to the harvest draining of the East by the West, an 

 artificial labor shortage was created, and labor for certain 

 industries could not be furnished in adequate volume. 

 From all indications Canada is to experience in 1923 

 an era of unprecedented industrial expansion due to the 

 extensive establishment of foreign houses, and there is 

 serious danger of shortage of industrial labor, having 

 no regard to the millions of acres of uncultivated land 

 and their almost limitless powers of assimilability. 



It is purely a question of policy whether Canada is to 

 receive adequate immigration or not. The kind of 

 immigrants the Dominion has received in the past, who 

 have proved most admirable colonists in every respect, 

 and developed the country to its present status, are 

 available and desirous of further establishment. In a 

 manner they are forcing Canada's hand and coming to 

 the country without invitation, in the face of stern dis- 

 couragement. The Italian and Dutch Governments 

 are desirous of settling part of their superflous population 

 in Canada, and have had representatives in Canada 

 scouting out the ground, and with only slight co-operation 

 the Dominion can expect great benefits from such assist- 

 ance. Although other countries are making strenuous 

 efforts to get them, Norwegians and Danes still prefer 

 Canada. The Dominion is receiving a substantial pro- 

 portion of the young army officers recently demobilized 

 in India. All summer parties of agriculturists have 

 been personally conducted by the transportation com- 

 panies and selected groups brought in by benevolent 

 societies. In a policy of discouragement immigrants 

 will come; what would the result be if they were en- 

 couraged? 



Hope for 1923 



There is every reason to suppose that this latest move 

 will have the effect of bringing about drastic changes in the 

 present immigration system and stimulating a campaign 

 of publicity on the Dominion's part, the combined effect 

 of which will be to turn to Canada's shores a volume of 

 immigration more akin to that it was accustomed to wel- 

 come before the war. The voice of the Canadian people 

 is behind the appeal, and there no longer remains any 

 doubt but that Canadians as a whole are desirous of 

 adding to their population immediately and welcom- 

 ing new-comers to share their prosperity and bring about 

 a development of their country more adequate to what 

 its extent and wealth justify. Whilst the year 1922 

 cannot but be regarded with the most intense disappoint- 

 ment, much better things are hoped for in 1923. 



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