trout and other fish make their homes, whilst 

 within easy distance of the city, in the great 

 ranges of the mountains, deer, goat, Rocky 

 Mountain sheep, cariboo and grouse offer fine 

 hunting expeditions. 



These varied attractions are giving Nelson 

 a greater prominence on the map of the continent 

 each year, and more and more people are dis- 

 covering it. From the south it is reached by the 

 Crow's Nest branch of the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway and a fine boat service up Kootenay 

 Lake. South, from the main line, it is arrived 

 at by an equally enjoyable boat trip through 

 the Arrow lakes. Many residents of Seattle, 

 Spokane and other Pacific cities come there year 

 after year over the roads which cross the Inter- 

 national border. 



Nelson, with its wealth in mines, in agricul- 

 tural lands, in climatic and scenic attractions, 

 has a future dependent only on increased 

 population. 



The Doyen of the C.P.R. 



Isaac Governeur Ogden, Vice-President of 

 Finance of the Canadian Pacific Railway, whose 

 photograph and New Year's Greeting appears on 

 our front page this issue, was born in New York. 

 He was educated in local schools, and commenced 

 business in a New York mercantile house in 

 1860, subsequently entering the local banking 

 firm of Fisk & Hatch. He entered railway 

 service as paymaster and accountant of the 

 Chicago and Pacific Railway in 1871. He was 

 auditor of the same road from 1876 to 1881. 

 Joining the C.P.R. in 1881, he was auditor of 

 the Western Division with headquarters at 

 Winnipeg until 1883. He was promoted to a 

 senior position in Montreal as auditor for the 

 C.P.R. in 1883. His next rise was in 1887 to 

 comptroller. Since December, 1901, he has 

 been Vice-President. 



The accounting system of I. G. Ogden is said 

 to be perfect. He is the man who controls the 

 finances of the C.P.R. and after whom the 

 Ogden shops just east of Calgary are named. 

 On a recent birthday, Mr. Ogden said : 



" Never mind my age or the fact that all the candles 

 representing my birthdays won't go on a cake, but I am 

 ttill hale and hearty and have a keen appetite for work. 

 Just think, when I joined the C.P.R. at Winnipeg in the 

 very early days the audit dept. was just composed of 6 

 clerks; now there are over 1,300." 



Mr. Ogden is one of the men who have 

 remained with the Company since its inception. 

 He has seen it grow from the time when there 

 were not funds enough to meet the payroll until 

 to-day when the payroll comes along sharp on 

 time every fortnight. When he was in Winni- 

 peg, the road went as far West as Portage la 

 Prairie, and southward to Emerson. 



"Certainly nobody thought of what we would see 

 to-day, although Lord Mount Stephen had visions, "added 

 Mr. Ogden. 



Immigration Selected and Directed 



Speech by the Right Honourable Lord Shaughnessy, 



K.C.V.O., before the Kiwanis Club of Monti eat, 



Thursday, November 16th 



This is the first occasion on which 1 have had the 

 privilege of attending a meeting of the Kiwanis Club, and 

 1 wish to express to you, Mr. Chairman, and the member* 

 of your club, my appreciation of the courtesy involved in 

 your invitation to be present to-day and to address you 

 briefly on the subject in which we are all so keenly inter- 

 ested a substantial increase of our population. But 

 although not present at your meetings, 1 have followed the 

 proceedings of your Club in the newspapers, and have been 

 impressed by the variety of your activities and the en- 

 thusiasm and organization with which they are prosecuted. 

 In every movement to help the unfortunate, to put right 

 those who had started on the wrong path, in every philan- 

 thropic and patriotic work the Kiwanis Club is an out- 

 standing factor and driving force. 



Nothing that the Club has heretofore undertaken ex- 

 ceeds in importance the campaign that it has been con- 

 ducting for some time past, and is still conducting, through 

 its committees and in conjunction with the Kiwanians 

 throughout Canada, to focus the attention of the Canadian 

 people, and through them of the Canadian Government, 

 on the vital importance to Canada's future of a sound, 

 sane, immigration policy, to be promulgated immediately, 

 and to be carried out with intelligence and vigor. 



Practically nothing has been done during the past 

 eight years to attract population. Of course, the War 

 interfered, and during the period of the War it would have 

 been impossible to bring people here, but four years have 

 elapsed since the Armistice, and much might have been 

 accomplished in those four years, were it not for unwise 

 immigration laws, the practical abandonment of publicity 

 work, and the withdrawal of agents. We have been hid- 

 ing our light under a bushel, with the result that we have 

 lost to other countries thousands of excellent settlers, who 

 should have come to us. Indeed, it is worse than that, 

 because the census returns show that in 1922 Canada has 

 a population of 7,200,000, and the census returns for 1921 

 show a total population of 8,700,000. But in that period 

 the vital statistics show that there was a natural increase 

 of 1,836,000, and immigration into Canada from other 

 countries of 1,975,000. Had we received no immigrants 

 at all, the natural increase should have given a population 

 of 9,000,000, so that in these ten years we have apparently 

 not only lost the equivalent of all the immigrants who 

 came in, but did not even maintain, according to the 

 census returns, the increase due to natural accretion, after 

 making full allowance for our war losses. It goes without 

 saying that many of those who left were foreigners, who 

 were compelled to return to their home countries at the 

 outbreak of war, so that the shrinkage was not unmixed 

 evil, but it emphasizes the necessity for replacing them as 

 quickly as we can. 



Natural Resources Offset Debts 



When we take into account the fact that our National 

 Debt, which was $335,000,000 in 1914, has now reached the 

 staggering sum of 2,340,000,000, or aoproximately the 

 equivalent of $270 per capita of our population, a National 

 Railway System (acquired for reasons that are more or less 

 defendable), that with its annual deficits absorbs the 

 greater portion of our rather burdensome income tax, 

 with no prospect of immediate improvement, we must 

 realize that the burden is too great for a population of 

 8,700,000 people, and that if we are to carry on without 

 serious inconvenience we must secure with all possible 

 speed a very large addition to our population, and to_our 

 productivity. Great as is our National Debt, and serious 

 as is the railway burden, we have within our country in 

 undeveloped wealth in our lands, our forests, our mines, 

 our fisheries, and other resources, ample assets to meet all 

 pur present and future requirements, provided that by 

 industry and development this hidden wealth be made 

 gradually available. 



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