MINERS FOR FARMS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 31 August 1928, Page 9

MINERS FOR FARMS

IMMIGRATION TO CANADA GOVERNMENT CO-OPERATION (From "The Post's Representative.) OTTAWA, Bth August. The proposal that 20,000 English miners be settled on farms iv Western Canada, which lias emanated from Lord Lovat, Uiider-Sccretary for tho Dominions, and chairman of the Overseas Settlement Committee, who is about to tour the Empire, has, been generally endorsed in Canada, subject to "objections by the Canadian Labour Party that tlie newcomer* should not disturb the already unsettled labour market in the mining industry. • New training centres are now being opened, up in England, and it is hoped by the authorities in the Motherland that tho minors and their families will be ready to sail next spring, after taking a course in agriculture of nine to sixteen weeks. While the head x>£ the family is being trained, a grant of £1 a week will be made to his wife, supplemented by 2a (id. tor each child. Tliis endowment will bo paid by the British Government. As soon as the miner is ready to take up si homestead of IGO acres, the British Government will grunt him £100. if he can acquire a similar amount from other sources, presumably the Canadian authorities and volunteer migration societies. Lord Lovat hopes that dwellings will be provided for him on the rural lauds of the west. It is intended that each miner shall be assured of a year's definite employment in Canada, during the difficult period of making a start. The passage money will be £10. Final details of the scliome, if it, attracts a suitable number of miners, will be settled at a conference between Lord Lovat and the Dominion Government at Ottawo.