WAR BRIDES FOR CANADA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17254, 2 September 1919, Page 9

WAR BRIDES FOR CANADA.

TOTAL ESTIMATED AT 32,000.

[from our own Correspondent.]

VANCOUVER, Aug 2. Nearly 1500 British girls are leaving England for ■ Canada every fortnight as the wives of Canadian soldiers. They travel free of charge in transports with their husbands. About 9000 brides, it is estimated, have arrived in Canada this year. The total number of girls in Great Britain married to Canadian soldiers during the war " is estimated at' 32,000, according to figures assembled in Ottawa. An official "of the Canadian Emigration ; Department, speaking of the subject, said -:" The girls are a fine type. They hail "from' Sussex to Aberdeen. Many are country-bresd,-with a practical knowledge of ; aiming. ..that will be raseful in Canada. Mato'y gibS engaged to men who have returned i to" Canada have also- applied for i passports in England. These are granted J only ' if' the .'girls can furnish satisfactory evidence;that, they have been engaged two years,-and-'tnat^the men intend to marry .them."' . »'. . l A'. considerable number of English giris ham,; arrived "in the United States with American coldier husbands, whils others Have obtained passports to the United State? to join. men to whom they had be-come''engaged-in England. • ■'Awarning 3 t0.. those intending to visit Britain, has-been given by Colonel J. Obed Smith, Canada's chief immigration officer. '" Those who intend to cross the Atlantic ! this year should make sure before they sail, that they can get back again, be Aid. "When I left London, there w~-e not fewer than 10,000 Cana«ians m the . British Isles, who, as far as * «2* see, had not the slightest chance of getting; a berth across the Atlantic daring 1919. Anyone applying at a steamship company s office at present would be noStely told to aoSv agin* some time in October or No- » estimated he ~da?a r that" there were 10,000 married Ctonadiaii ! ficed their lives, or of men who had been ; S* Canada for *»»•«¥*«<&***- ' ment. in hospitals or ■together, the number that-had stiil ,0 « Pa»Tei-would.b«r about 35,000.