AMERICANS IN CANADA.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13098, 24 April 1908, Page 7

AMERICANS IN CANADA.

A GREAT MIGRATION

United Pross Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, April 22. Thirty-nine thousand American farmers, each with £300 to £1000, have migrated to Canada during th© last seven months.

It is prcibaMo that this migration of American farmers is duo to tit© fact thiat uhe Canadian Pacific Railway is "booming" the land it owns along th© line, in order 'to rauso money for th© dujplica-ioai of the line. Besides th© work of private companies., th© Government has beem doing a great deal of systetuia.tic advertising in the States for th© iKirpose of attracting Americans to Ga_i__dia. There have been as many as 200 and 300 agonte employed on commission. One agent, w-ho succeeded in moving but ono family during his first year, oiiaims to have eontt 5000 Americans to Canada in th© last five years.

In view of this influx of Americans, it is worthy of notice that Mr HarotFd Begbie, a well-known London journalist, who recently visited Canada, thinks that Canada is rapidly becoming Americanised-. Imperialism., as a public sentiment, is loinguoshing; republican freedom and democratic independence are asserting themselves. Wherever you turn, writes Mr Begbie, you seo evidence of "a .steady and conscious tendency" town-rd American standards. Th© poiLt-iciams of Canada aro simply Ara-e-rioan .politicians transplanted or reproduced. 'Ill© newspapers "aro const mated alxaolutetly in th© American spirit." "Th© coinage of Canada 'is the coinage of the States. Th© manner of conducting business is the same in both countries." Ye* Canada is not destined ever to become politically united with th© States, although her loyalty to England is fast dying out. Everywhere Mr Begbio noticed antipathy towards "Yankees," but Canada, lie believes, is growing to independence in the spirit of America. This opinion is not shared by tho majority of obsorvore.