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must continue to be exercised and extended in the direction of 

 improving education. Just as one of the deplorable effects of the 

 present haphazard land system is that it hampers educational 

 progress so one of the most benefical effects of a properly conceived 

 and scientific system would be that it would give facilities for carry- 

 ing on a more aggressive and comprehensive educational policy. 

 The better training of the Canadian citizen, simultaneously with 

 the better training of the immigrant before he is permitted to settle on 

 the land, is of vital importance in connection with the building up of 

 a sound organisation of rural life and in promoting industrial and 

 social welfare. 



CONCLUSION 



The contentions in this chapter may be briefly summarized as fol- 

 lows: — That the character of the social structure it is desired to build 

 should be kept in mind in laying the foundation by means of proper plans 

 of development; that the improvement of agriculture and rural conditions 

 generally cannot be effectively attained without the extension of co-opera- 

 tion, and of facilities for obtaining cheap capital, education and scientific 

 training, as part of the organization of rural life; that good progress is 

 being made in Canada with the aid of the Federal and Provincial Gov- 

 ernments in extending co-operation, rural credit and education, but that 

 this extension is inadequate to arrest depopulation, to improve living 

 conditions and to increase production owing to the original defects of 

 the system of land settlement; that the existing tendencies of manufac- 

 turing industries to move out to, or become established in, rural areas 

 indicates the direction in which government stimulus should be provided 

 to secure a closer combination of manufacture and agriculture, to bring 

 the producer nearer to the consumer, and to provide opportunities for 

 education and social intercourse in rural territory; that the establish- 

 ment of garden cities and the promotion of domestic industries in rural 

 areas should be encouraged as the best means to promote a healthy 

 and economically sound system of development; and that national and 

 local progress in the future will largely depend on the extent to which we 

 promote education and industrial and civic welfare in the small towns 

 and rural districts. 



