OFF TO CANADA
HUNDREDS OF HIGHLANDERS. BETTER OPPORTUNITIES. Reuters Telacnun. LONDON, April 16. The heavy exodus of Highlanders t< Canada ia causing soma misgiving. Five hundred men, women, and children from the Boisdale district in tb« outer Hebrides, mostly landholders is the islands, sailed yesterday, and 500 more from Lewis will sail in a fen days. • . The emigrants are mostly Catholics, and the migration movement was initiated by a priest. The reason given for relinquishing good holdings, which are eagerly sought by othere, is that there are better opportunities fov children in Qsnada.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11497, 18 April 1923, Page 5
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