CANADA’S OPEN DOOR
More British settlors aro needed to assist in the development of t’nnada, and Mr W. D. Robb, Vice-president in charge of Colonisation, Agriculture, and Natural Kosources of tho Canadian National Railways at Montreal—now a member of (ho now Mackenzie King Cabinet —recently went to Kngland to try to increase the how of emigrants to the dominion. Mr Robb emphasised the fact that Canada is not simply a. vast whcal-grow-in;; prune. Be says that s'aO OCO men arc wanted yearly for tiie sold, silver, copper, and other mines, tho pulp and paper industry, and the development of hydroelectric' power. Mon for those purposes must Vie found, but the annual figures of British ernipiration to Canada, which were 389,000 before the war, were only 117,000 last year.
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Evening Star, Issue 19388, 23 October 1926, Page 24
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128CANADA’S OPEN DOOR Evening Star, Issue 19388, 23 October 1926, Page 24
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