CANADIAN IMMIGRATION

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 140, 15 June 1934, Page 4

CANADIAN IMMIGRATION

figures f 61- the-year -1933 show that immigration. iv.to Oariada : during last year -declined; seriously, says the Canadian correspondent of,:. «'Tho Times." The total"immigrants for 1933 numbered 14,382, a reduction of 30 per cent, compared with 1932, and only slightly more than :hal£:.tha -figures recorded in.; 1931. In. 1923 ttiero were as many' hs' ISOj'OOO . immigrants. D.ui'ing 1933 immigrants ' from' Great' 'Bntain only numbered 2304, and considerably more- this, number, p£. people xcto Great Britain.. According' to the returns 'of the. Immigration/ Department for the year ending -March 31, 1933, 4251 British pcoplo were deported home in that-period and the scale of deportations was little reduced in the last nine months of 1933. The United States furnished 8450, or nearly 60 per cent of' the total immigrants in 1933, and the influx of favoured northern European stocks was reduced to 670. Only ;in\ three racial" categories, Hebrews, Magyars, and Slovaks, was an increase recorded for 1933, compared with 1932. Debates in the House of Commons on immigration have disclosed that, iv view of continued domestic unemployment,' ther6 is a rstrong feeling against any artificial stimulation of, immigration, 'The Government, while careful to etate that it does not believe in the_ permanent discouragement of immigration, is accordingly limiting its immigration expenditure to somo modost commitments previously undertaken. . •