AN EXODUS FROM CANADA

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 12

AN EXODUS FROM CANADA

' THE LURE OF THE UNITED i - STATES. ,

;.< '■-'..'■•!4n. i 'exodus-of population to the United ; f'i^tstes". which nas developed within the (idasl'lfeVir months lias, caused .surprise and '■■ ;i,"Sowa : -Concern, writes the Toronto corre■•'^■Sponfient o% »he '" Ifanciester Guafd;?'An^:: •■ v.. ;- -■■ ; ■ :

.'«!*: .A-"Wpstern member, of Parliament ar- • V'iiiT64?tin Ottawa for the session, told ;:;;;Sp£.;!s«!ing on, a.train carrying thirty.fam fX: •iiiea'tiom Alberta bound for Oregon and Viii'.rOSlifopua. "Anotherrelated liow a party „v'i|ijttriilg; in a prairie farmhouse had reckforty families who had left the •■ ■ "iueigliiboui-hobd within the year. From ' iv^Vfictoria, 8.C., it" is reported that hun- ' '^'jkljfedßv of families have moved south. ;;; jfl'-rbm;.'the Atlantic; coast come reports .^(ihat -there is a-steady stream of artisans ->'iutionii industrial centres like Amherst and C;fixalifax to the Now England.States. In ;£::Jpttawf>, it is said-that the bricklayer, '.'" ' j>last!efer, and painter have become al-i-J'-i&ost'.extinctby emigration. Some trade '.^'ijaitCiriS' are said.to. report..that one-third /^»f;.their membership has'gone to the ■'.. s'lSliiited.State3, .peshaps only, temporarily, t * * SHscai&ije most, of"the.migrants have taken „* Vcuiy^trayeliing cards. One estimate says •■'i^^he-movement is" proceeding at the rate ■ '.j" !ot' IQJOOO a! month ,. and has reached.a 'il'lioisl'^i more than. 100,000 in the pact <':■■< (year*; * •• „ ■ s v . A*!the subject, is-being mads a poli-. and; a_basis of attack on the 6^ government, -.' perhaps ■'•■■ some discount E'ihould'be made'tic-m the more pessimistic. -I'^ieports. . They have not,' however, been ;ji ;^controverted. -"'■ ■■■•■■■ •i"': What one newspaper describes.as Can-dida's.-''role of, incubator for the United plates; is not a new development, though • ib had. been ■ hoped the role was now . jabandoned. The other day an Ontario ;■'! aural;;'.:weekly,' reproduced a photograph Vjjbf the'male; pupils in attendance at the, ■'•; gown's Collegiate Institute in 1892, one ';'.'sof them being the present Premier of 4'jjOntarip; Hon. E. C. Drury. Of the ;<;■ forty-eight whose addresses are known, r'.ften have become permanent residents of JUljthe /.United States,"'all 'engaged, success-j^-jfally;in professional or business life, fjj* Sir •Auckland G eddies, British Ambas*ilfcaddri:to Washington, in ■«, recent visit f,"so Canada, was smfficieritly impressed'by ."^/the situation t6 issue a message to young •'■* toanaiJians tb> remain in their own coun- ;!" t tiy.!;'fjf, Canadians, he said, had stood V';%y Ifreir homeland in peace- as they did x.l.'jn.Jwar-the development of the Dominion '»i"-l!s»ul2-have been tenfold .greater. ''-"JcSS^r United, States immigration .policy £; ti;- K charged with being'responsible for loss. The restrictions fixing a each nationality which,may £11 Jsifte?'£he United States" annually do not ->(hpply 'to Canada. On the other hand, >■ Mesa-'-restrictionsl "have" prevented c0n:..1; fcestioii;'of the labour market, bo that •y £;'gh; wages and labour demand attract 'i vanadians' across the boundary. An* »• jctEecTesplanation put forward.'. is the sf^lde;*;«it,fi3ilatio)l.;,i'?';Can : ada~;of" American, ■^ab&ations ■'describWgj-ihe attractions of lA^enTO^'Ufs.^U^&allyF^'eaders-.'w.ant ito^' lwli'errths6r*Kl»k^rre^iS'"B6;.enjo7teble. Many o{ them, it is hoped here, V^flKcconie-back..'•-,- .■;.?■■■ -. -• ...--■■.■■• '■-•■■.■ The" loss' by "eniigraMdri is "not" being ,;.;'• .replaced by immigration.- - Figures for -■•'- J1022 show that any influx of population !-i£«'m even less than it "was during war 'IiJI •yews. Naturally the unemployment .proit • blem has been relieved. ■ -An uneihploy.U' .conference called not"long" ago de- ',£*;; :'t)ared there wasvno nnemployment in (''".jCanada, and promptly adjourned. tj* ' the' Minister of Ini-;- ,'',' n!igratioh_'called..."anptherL conference of )':*„ -provincial Ministers to devise an effec(■v 'tive plan-of's"ecuring:-and iabsorbihg new. i*' population.' But ib is.apparent.that"the j;*; problem is being dominated ;-'•■• 'by the revelation of the exodu? to-.-the ".'* -XMted States. The plans of the' Canada

"' Colonisation Association, from which ■i- something tad been hoped, seem to hay» '»"■ ;gone a/wry. Two: presidents in succes-' ]i^ fion Have resigned. "We don't.want to 3',r bo running after, new settlers -until-%o-S]y 'lave satisfied - the dissatisfied man at ],*■ present in the country," declared one of i!i;l!t-hen),::Mr.:. J.";H; Ashdowrij of Whmii ';.- peg. ' " ""\ " " •■"'""" ' '„. . . .The. pessimists., who see in disturbed ?,!T"'Ku¥6p'e*ther"root""6f 'Canaaian "agrlculturar ;;2 dissatisfaction have no solution to offer ■ -■i ifor present ills. Canadian agricultural .'T prosperity, they aver, was dependent:on: ;' I a stable, industralised Europe, ..^■nrhpss; : -V, pre-war demand is now, according io)jK careful estimates, cut in. half.-: ..i-;;*:'!"'-' ■ %