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are also making rapid strides (mention may be 

 made of the part of Ontario which is known as 

 New Ontario), they retard their advance by the 

 scanty circulation of the openings that they offer 

 to settlers, and for the investment of capital. 



On this side there is no official promotion of 

 emigration. The Emigrants' Information Office 

 publishes handbooks and pamphlets on various 

 colonies, but, true to its title, confines itself to 

 the distribution of information. It undoubtedly 

 does excellent work in preventing people from 

 going to places where they would be unlikely to 

 find employment. Communications are made by 

 direct correspondence and through the columns 

 of the Labour Gazette, one of the organs of the 

 Board of Trade. An active policy may be in- 

 augurated upon the recommendation of Lord 

 Tennyson's Committee which is now sitting at 

 the Colonial Office. In the meanwhile, various 

 private agencies are engaged in providing facilities 

 for emigration. The work of one of them, the 

 British Women's Emigration Association, with 

 which the writer is personally acquainted, is 

 worthy of a brief description, as being a model 

 of intelligent organisation. The emigrants are 

 most carefully selected, and loans are made to 

 them where it is necessary to supplement their 

 slender resources. They cross the ocean under 

 the protection of matrons, who are engaged and 

 paid by the Association ; and upon their arrival 

 at their destination, they are received by trust- 

 worthy correspondents who find situations for 



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