MIGRATION TO CANADA.
SCHEME JEOPARDISED. (By cable—pajsgs association— copynt *ar) (iUSTHAIiSAK AKD K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) VANCOUVER, August 8. It is reported from Edmonton, Alberta, that p. cable message 6tating that the Canadian conditions had jeopardised the scheme v for bringing a certain number of British youths to. Alberta for a six months'course in the schools of agriculture prior to their seeking farms was shown to the' Minister of Agriculture, Mr Georgo Hoadley. Mr Hoadley said that exaggerated stories of the conditions in Cantda taken to Britain by disgruntled harvesters last season should not prove a deterrent to the carrying out of tho sohemo. Out of 2500 or 8000 British harvesters who cam© to Alberts last year, more than half had remained in Canada* while 'fchp majority of the others had gone back, as they had intended to do.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18148, 11 August 1924, Page 9
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