TRUE CANADIANS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16209, 6 December 1926, Page 3

TRUE CANADIANS

DRdFT BACK FROM U.S.A.

Colonel J. Sclater, who is at present in Dunedirii is the representative of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Australia and New Zealand, and on subjects pertaining to Canada be speaks with authority and enthusiasm. ""■"'Don't you believe anything they tell you about Canada joining up. with the United States," he said. "She stands solidlvby the Old Land and the Imperial spirit bums as brightly _ in Canada .as in any other part of Britain's farfluhg Empire." Colonel Sclater said that immigration to jGanada for the first seven months of 1926 was 68 per cent, greater than that for the .same "period of 1926. According to the figures, of the Department of Immigration and Colonisation, the total influx for MS- first seven months of this year had been 86,460. compared with M,400 for Ine fiame period in 1925. The figures had been made up as follows: Frotn 'the British Isles, 33,142; from the "United States, fe,334; h'dia other coun- | tries, |iit#i Included in the new ar- ! nvals in Canada in July were 64,677 [ Canadians from the United States, and : these were returning from the States ' alter having made permanent homes there for periods - longer than sik months." "Whatever- drift of population there may have been .from Canada to the States," he went on, "you will see for yourself thab there is now a drift back" . "Can the country absorb all the people coming to it?" asked the interviewer. ''We can take them all," emphatically replied Colonel Sclater.