A BOY MIGRANT

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 114, 17 May 1927, Page 4

A BOY MIGRANT

TRIALS IN CANADA

NEWSPAPER PUBLICITY

The trials of an English boy migrant may not be a good advertisemnt for Canada, as a land or reward for industry, and perseverance, but they certainly demonstrate that the breed holds true.

Leaving his native Wolverhampton, he crossed the Atlantic with 1500 migrants. Most of them were foreigners, with which Western Canada is being filled by the railway companies, and he said that he spent most of his time on shipboard endeavouirng to avoid contact with their unpleasant habits, and the aroma ■of . garlic that surrounded them.

Landing at Montreal, he and another English lad, with whom he chummed, could not get work, owing to the language difficulty. His chum went on to Winnipeg, where he had relations. Robert Yapp continued the search alone, and eventually pocketed his pride, and took .a menial jobj washing dishes. It lasted six weeks, and he decided he had seen all he wanted to see of Montreal. »

Going to Ottawa, he got a job in a dairy garage. The secretary of' the Sons of England took an interest in him, and got him into the football club, I which was only beaten in the final. He was again out^of a job, but had saved £10. For-five weeks he tramped the capital, and then-decided to walk to! Toronto, a distanco of 250 miles. He J had sixpence in his pocket. I . A HELPING HAND. ! j Oh the first day on the highway, he walked all day, spending his capital for his first meal in the evening. He spent the night in a-barn-. Next day he was on the road at 5 a.m., and got a lift to Brockville. He would not ask for a meal, so plodded on. He got another lift on a motor-truck, and the driver, seeing his condition, gave him a good meal at the end of the day. Sleeping again in a barn, he ,was on the road for Toronto' at;' 5 aim i, reaching there at nightfall, Haying- had two nieals 'in three" days! -He went straight to the I Salvation Armyi where he got \ meal and a bed for the njght. :.Next morning, he was at tho employment bureau, and a man picked him out for a job nnloading freight; He got two days' .work, and got in twenty hours' work at Is Bd, ah hour. '■■ His next job I was washing dishes, and from that on he ; got odd;joh.bs here and there, with intervals of ; idleness. that always ran away with; his meagre sayings. ..,-.' "Each j'week 1 write home to my people, b^t I have never let them know jtvhat I have been going through," he "said ,tb a; newspaper reporter, who encountered him.'." t have never been in any kind of trouble, nor done anyone anyhdrm: I have always lived a clean and honest life." -;

; The,-publication of his experiences and.his photograph in one of the.leading papers in> Toronto, it is hoped, will lead to, some-steady- job being found for him. , .