WHERE WOMEN WORKERS AND WIVES ARE WANTED.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 33, 21 January 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

WHERE WOMEN WORKERS AND WIVES ARE WANTED.

CHANCE FOR FEMALE EMIGRANTS. “Tli? farmers hang about the tiny stations tint dot the great trans-con-tinental railroad tracks ’twixt Winnipeg and the Rockies, waiting for a sight of the emigrant girls on the AA’estLound train that goes through once in twenty-four hours. Every man-iack of them is on th? look-out for a wife.” These ar? the words of a writer who has studied the conditions of Canadian life and who knows that the need for domestic help in Canada is chronic and continuous. Loneliness is not good for | n man, and that is why one finds hunj dreds of young fellows who are developj ing the lard of th? great North-AA’est eager to find a mate. How ■■ oareo-vhe right typo of gird fovI domestic work in Canada i< may bo Judged from the words uttered by th? Bishop of London a short- time ago. "“It is practically impossible.” he saio. “to get a servant in C’nada for loro or money. ] coni I find place, for two hundred girls to-morrow if we had money to send t-hem out.” Forth : r pro -f of the dearth of women in Canada is furnished by Mr. Arthur M. Grenfell, son-in-law of Earl Grey, the Gov-wnor-Genera’ of Canada, who says, “There rre e-ght men to every woman in the land. Domestic serv’ee of various kinds is to be had for the asking.”

AVomen. indeed, are wanted in Canada ti th? number of many thousands, “both as workers and wives,” to quote l the words of tho Superintendent- of l Canadian Emigration in London : while ' both New Brunsw'ck and British Col- i umbia offer great inducements to wo- I men emigrants. Says th? Agent-General for the latter country. “I do not know any part which is such a promising country for women as Brit>'sh Columbia” : while the representative of New Brunswick in England says, “AA’e are constantly sending girls out. and are receiving satisfactory reports of their progress from time to time.”