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and Scotland, and this partly explains the fact that of all 

 England's colonies she is the most loyal, and that in no 

 other part of the world not even in England itself is 

 life and property more secure. This laisser faire emigra- 

 tion policy was until quite recently pushed too far in 

 Canada. For although all forced emigration is bad, and 

 although by far the best emigration agent is the letter of 

 the thriving settler in Canada to the friends he has left 

 behind him, still in these times when so many new coun- 

 tries are jealously competing for immigrants to develop 

 their natural resources, it is necessary for Canada to set 

 forth the advantages she has to offer to industrious men. 

 As far as I am able to judge, Canada is now doing this 

 fairly enough. I have read some of the emigration 

 pamphlets published by authority, and I have seen no- 

 thing in them that a Canadian fond of his country might 

 not have written with the most truthful intentions. 



In fact, as regards one class of immigrants, and that the 

 one most wanting to develop the great natural resources 

 of the country, I do not consider that these emigration 

 circulars have put forward with sufficient distinctness the 

 advantages that Canada undoubtedly possesses. I refer 

 to capitalists large and small. The vast forests, the rich 

 mines, the many favourable conditions for manufacturing, 

 such as water-power, cheap food, &c., the unrivalled faci- 

 lities for moving and shipping goods, all these advantages 

 have not been to my mind . sufficiently demonstrated. At 

 the moment I am writing these lines, I know old-country 

 farmers who have their few hundred pounds in bank bear- 

 ing the paltry interest of one and a half per cent. Such 

 men in Canada could on their first arrival get six per cent. 



