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MOVEMENT IN CANADA ' VANCOUVER, Sept. 18. The ranks of the unemployed haw been depleted by 15,(XX) men who have been placed on farms in Canada, as the result of plans drawn up by the Minister of Immigration and Colonisation, tho Hon. Wesley A. Gordon. The machinery of the Soldiers’ Settlement Hoard is co-operating with the Canadian National Railways and Canadian Pacific Railway in the work. Up to tho present 3749 families and 10.609 single men have been placed by tho Dominion on farms, while the province of Ontario lias similarly placed 800 families and 2000 single men. and the province of Quebec 450 families and 300 single men.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17610, 28 October 1931, Page 7
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