SALVATION ARMY SCHEME
Commissioner Coombes, of the Salvation Army, is at present a-visitor to Winnipeg. He is accompanied by Colonel Lamb, the chief of the Army’s emigration department, and together they are making an extended tour of inspection through Western Canada. It is proposed to establish large settlements under the direction of the Salvation Amy on the irrigated lands of the Canadian-Paci-fic Railway near Calgary. On Vancouver Island a model experimental farm is to be started. Each settlement established under the auspices of the Salvation Army will have an officer in charge to- instruct settlers how to get the best possible returns out of the land. Expounding the scheme, Colonel Lamb said there were 70,000 villages in England. From each one of these an effort would bo made by the Salvation Amy authorities to get one family to transfer its home to Canada. The Imperial sigaificauw of suab work as this is obviouo
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Evening Star, Issue 14225, 26 November 1909, Page 7
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153SALVATION ARMY SCHEME Evening Star, Issue 14225, 26 November 1909, Page 7
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