COLONISATION 



Scotland is an old country. It is limited in extent, and it has 

 an ever-increasing population. It is inevitable that there should be 

 men without elbow-room to carve out for themselves a destiny. 

 Their numbers may vary, according to the wisdom or want of wis- 

 dom with which we manage our national affairs. As it is, thousands 

 are leaving our shores every year for distant lands. Our object in 

 this Report is not to augment but to direct and guide this stream, 

 so that that which the mother country must lose, the colonies may 

 gain. 



A Word of Warning 

 At the outset we should like to say, with all the emphasis possible, 

 that there are certain classes which Canada does not want, and for 

 which she makes no provision. There is, first of all and pre-emi- 

 nently, the " remittance men," men who live on remittances from 

 long-suffering relatives at home. A new life in a new land seems 

 to do little for them. They are what they have ever been. They 

 give no promise of being anything else, and they constitute a drag 

 on the wheel of Canadian progress. There is another class, in every 

 way respectable, composed of professional men and tradesmen, 

 for whom there is no work in Canada meantime. The land is over- 

 flowing with them. If they are to emigrate at all, it ought to be 

 to some other colony where the chances of success are greater. 



Farmers Wanted 

 The men wanted in Canada are men with some knowledge of agri- 

 culture. There are many openings for such men, but they must be 

 careful. Canada is a new country, and its people are full of hope. 

 It is suffering from honest exaggeration. It is suffering too from 

 a worse evil — from a superabundance of real estate agents and 

 speculators in land. It is, however, so good a country that ex- 

 aggeration can but harm it, and we, who have no land to sell, are 

 doing it the best service we can when we tell the truth about it. 

 It is a country of almost boundless possibilities, from an agricultural 

 point of view, but it is also a country of many climates, not all 

 equally good, and of great varieties of soil, not all equally suitable 

 for farming, and while we are satisfied that there are in Canada 

 splendid opportunities for the right kind of emigrants, we are 

 equally satisfied that no man should farm in Canada until he knows 

 the country and its climatic conditions, and has learned by experi- 

 ence as a hired hand, or otherwise, what Canadian farming means. 



The Eastern Provinces 

 To men thus equipped, men of knowledge and experience, there 

 are openings both in Eastern and Western Canada. Emigration to 



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