(From photos by J. J. Kelso. Courtesy Commission of Conservation.) 



Rural Slums. Does the City Offer Much Worse? 



These illustrations depict scenes 

 in a district of Eastern Ontario. 

 They represent graphically the con- 

 ditions which arise when people are 

 allowed to settle on land not fit for 

 agriculture, and where their un- 

 availing efforts to make a decent 

 living for themselves and their fam- 

 ilies result in their utter discourage- 



ment and surrender to all sorts of 

 vices. It is good to know that the 

 Ontario government has of late he- 

 come more alive to the dangers of 

 this policy of opening for settlement 

 land which is unfit for that purpose 

 and that hence such scenes as the 

 above are not likely to be duplicat- 

 ed. 



