EMPIRE FARMS
The founding of an Empire Farm in Canada is put forward by the Empire Resources Development Committee in illustration of their scheme for reducing the National Debt. They point out that 200,000,000 acres purchased from the Dominion Government at £1 an acre and sold again 20 years later, after development, at .£2O an acre, would redeem the whole of the National.Debt of .£4,000,000,000 and at the same time attract to Canada a great army of taxpayers who would be an enormous asset. If only .£lO, or even £6. per acre were obtained, the scheme still holds great possibilities which, would simultaneously enhance the credit of the Empire and the 'strength 'and wealth of Canada.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3091, 23 May 1917, Page 5
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116EMPIRE FARMS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3091, 23 May 1917, Page 5
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