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interesting entertainments. After seeing the " movies '' and the products, an 

 elderly farmer exclaimed, "Those roots, vegetables and grains are wonderful. 1 

 really can hardly believe it." 



Now that the war is over, the outook in regard to immigration and coloniza- 

 tion has been changed to a very marked degree. Through our office at 163 Strand, 

 London, England, an energetic campaign is being carried on in the United 

 Kingdom with a view to attracting British capital, farmers, farm labourers and 

 domestic servants to our Province. There can be no doubt that considerable 

 capital, as well as many settlers, will be the result of advertising, lectures, cor- 

 respondence and personal interviews, as well as the distribution of thousands of 

 pieces of literature, together with the " boosting " that our soldiers gave Ontario 

 while abroad. Our Agent-General advises me that his office is besieged daily by 

 intending settlers and that his staff are forced to work overtime distributing 

 information. The work, of course, is confined mainly to securing farm labourers 

 and domestic servants. For a good many years this office has proved of great use 

 in connection with migration of people from Great Britain who desire to make 

 new homes for themselves in Ontario. A very efficient organization has been 

 perfected for assisting emigrants in their journey to Ontario. From time to 

 time personally conducted parties are arranged, each under the care of an ex- 

 perienced traveller. The first of these parties, since the beginning of the war, 

 recently arrived, consisting of sixty-three domestics. These girls were as fine a 

 type of womanhood as could be wished for, and all, I am sure, will prove their 

 worth. 



During the coming year of reconstriiction this Bureau will undoubtedly be 

 instrumental in playing no small part in the upbuilding of this, the banner 

 Province of the Dominion. 



I have the honour to be. Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



H. A. Maodonell, 



Toronto. October 31st, 1919. 



Director of Colonization. 



Appendix No. IfO. 



Eepoet of the Forestry Branch, 1919. 



Sir, — The report of the work of the Forestry Branch for the year ending 

 Slst October, 1919, is given under the three sections of Forest Protection, Eeforest- 

 ation and Forest Pathology. 



I. Forest Protection. ' 

 (1) Legislation. 



The past season is the third during which this Branch has been charged 

 with the work relating to The Forest Fires Prevention Act of 1917. No changes 

 have been made in the Act since the last annual report, but this season's experience 



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