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MOVEMENT IN CANADA.
GOVERNMENT'S ACTIVITY
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
VANCOUVER, September 18
The ranks of the unemployed have been depleted by 15,000 men who have been placed on farms in Canada," as the result of plans drawn up by. the Minister o|f Immigration and Colonisation, the Hon. Wesley A. Gordon.. The machinery of the Soldiers' Settlement Board is co-operating -with the Canadian National Railways and Canadian Pacific Railway in the work. Up to the present 3749 families and 10,609 single men have been placed by the Dominion ,on farms, while the province of Ontario has similarly placed 800 families and 2000 single men, and the province of Quebec 450 families and 300 single men.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 253, 26 October 1931, Page 5
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