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REPORT OP THE 



No. 3 



Appendix No. 31. 



Colonization and Immigration. 



'lo the Honourable G. II. Fenjitson, Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, Toronto,. 

 Ontario : — 



Sill, — I have the honour to submit the following report of tlie Colonization and 

 Immigration Branch for the year ending October 31st, 1917 : 



The following figures indicate the work of the Bureau of Colonization for that 

 period : . 



School Ohiildren — Rainy River Valley. 



Number of farm labourers placed 713 



Northern Ontario calendars circulated 26,000 



Northern Ontario booklet, " A New Land Near-by," circulated 25,000 



" Ontario " handbook, circulated 5,000 



" Opportunities in Ontario " (Heaton's) , circulated 20,000 



" Farming Opportunities in Ontario " (Farm Property Values), circulated 2,000 



Maps, circulated 5,000 



Railway certificates to settlers going to Northern Ontario — ^Adults 1,583 



Children 141 



• 1,724 



Number of letters received 7,244 



Number of letters sent out 7,680 



The farm labourers secured from the United States were generally satisfactory. 

 Our agents had special instructions to be judicious in their selection. Had we not 

 been careful, had we been willing to accept all applicants, we could have got two or 

 three times as many. As it was, the number obtained exceeded the previous year by 

 nearly a hundred. 



