CANADIAN IMMIGRATION

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 213, 2 June 1908, Page 11

CANADIAN IMMIGRATION

SUCCESS OF DOMINION'S EFFORT.

- FEDERAL SPIRIT RESPONSIBLE. The_ groat success of the immigration policy, of the Dominion of Canada is attributed, by.-jVlr. J. S. Larke, the Canadian Commissioner now 'in Sydney, to the fact that the Dominion • Government, which administers the policy, has never lost sight of the'fact that land settlement is the true objective. Immigrants are not wanted for towns and cities,. but there are always room and work for'them on country lands, and it is the na-, tional 'policy to have the lands put to the most.'profitable use.- Tho desiro of the Central Government' to settle the' North-western • country was' wnrmly approved by all the •provinces,.: for "'though.'tho incidental cost wa3 a,-charge upon-Dominion funds, it was generally recognised that the development . of; any, one province made for the benefit of , all. • -The whole immigration policy, of - Canada, Mr.' Larko remarked, was shaped and administered ; by' tho Central'. Government. Tinie, was when various shipping companies 1 . made it thoir' business to secure immigrants, and . occasionally, charitablo institutions in England helped men and women to tho' Do- , minion.' .The results were at times unsatisfactory.- But when tho Dominion Government! took chftrgo an arrangement, mutually Bsitisfaotory, was entered into with the shipping companies, and care was takon to reject undesirables' from s those to whom assisted passages were, granted. From time to time one or, other of the provincial Governments, anxious to add to the population, wont to the. expense of sending special agents to England, but these agents always worked in co-operation with' the representatives of tho Central Government. In "placing" immigrants the Central Government aimed at Bonding, men wherever they were most required, and with this tho provinces were conteiit. Many men made their way to Canada '.under tjie auspices of tho Salvation Army.' This 'was found to work, well, for the' Salvation Army people knew the needs of tho. country, and had effective agencies • for.distributing the immigrants. .But irre- , spective-'of the agency through which immiS grants reached Canada everything possiblowas done to assist thorn in obtaining work.