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immigrants from Europe to the North-West via Hudson's Bay, and 

 I repeat, the whole expense ought not to exceed twenty dollars. 

 Take even a ship that would be able to accommodate but one 

 thousand, and, leaving three dollars a head for railway fare from 

 Churchill to the fertile belt, the vessel would realize $17,000 for her 

 immigrant cargo aside from the income from other freights such as 

 merchandise. Indeed, looking at the prospect of the vast immigrant 

 and merchandise freights that will surely find their way westward, 

 and the vaster carriage of the products of the North- West eastward, 

 one cannot fail to see a brilliant future for both the steamship and 

 railway departments of the Hudson's Bay route. 



In connection with the question of immigration to Canada, and 

 the Canadian North-West, coupled with the Hudson's Bay route, 

 it will be proper to call attention to an important meeting on 

 Canada in Edinburgh, Scotland, held under the auspices of the 

 " Canada North- West Land Company," on the 6th January 1885. 

 Sir George Warrender of Lochend, Bart., chairman of the company, 

 presided. In opening the proceedings he said that " there were two 

 kindred subjects which were at present occupying the minds of 

 thinkers in Great Britain. These were, first : ■ Our relations with 

 the splendid colonies of this vast Empire ' ; and second, ' The means 

 afforded by these colonies for the relief of a too redundant popula- 

 tion at home by emigration.' He would say nothing of the first, as 

 they were met together to consider the second as associated with 

 Canada, and in the belief that it was in the interests of all that 

 British emigration should go to British colonies. Within the last 

 few years the energetic Government of Canada had opened up 

 regions of almost boundless extent and unsurpassed fertility, which 

 within this generation were the home of only the Red Indian, the 

 hardy trapper, the buffalo, the bear, and the beaver. The fertility 

 of these regions was demonstrated to the Scottish public by the 

 cereals, grasses, and roots, grown without any fertilizing agents 

 except those contained in the soil itself, which were now being 

 exhibited in Edinburgh under the auspices of the Canada North- 

 West Land Company. Alluding to the speakers of the evening, and 

 mentioning that Professor Ramsay had taken an opportunity of 



