Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-19 | Page 6 | Canadian Immigration

CANADIAN IMMIGRATION. During- the first ten months of the fiscal fis-cal year 356,430 immigrants arrived in Canada, 93,030 -of the total number be.' ing Americans. During the corresponding correspond-ing ten months of the preceding fiscal 3ear the total number of immigrants entering the Dominion was 344,083 and of the number 138,826 were from this side of the boundary line. Thus it be comes apparent that while immigration to Canada is increasing, there is a decided de-cided falling off in the number of Americans who seek their fortunes in tho north country. The stampede of farmers from the United States to Canada, if wc may property enll it such, was tho direct result re-sult of an advertising campaign; most, if not all, of which was carried in the "patent insides" of the countn- newspapers. news-papers. The average American farmer is casil- tempted to pull up stakes and seek a home in a new county-, more especially if tho land be cheap. So the .alluring advertisements setting forth the alleged advantages, natural and otherwise, of the wheat belt up north, had the desired result. Tho Canadians, of course, cannot be blamed for preferring American immigration immi-gration to all others. Men who havo built homes upon the raw prairies of Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma nud tho Dakotas can be trustod to do tho same work in anv other inhabitable new country. coun-try. In view of the Ottawa report on immigration it is probable that tho rush to Canada i3 over, at least so far aa the American farmer Ib concerned. There is consolation in the thought that those who left this country woro accounted ac-counted "desirable" citizens in their now home.