SCOTTISH CROFTERS IN CANADA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2290, 29 November 1889, Page 3

SCOTTISH CROFTERS IN CANADA.

♦ E&iigration from their sterile, iobospltable J«/id to the Dominion of Canada baa Already .worked wonders ia the condition of ibe otOjfterß who left the Western Highlands oV Scotland end; lait year. Seat cat under the außploea of the Imperial Government, they have been treated with every consideration by the Dominion autboruitf. These stotdy sone of Sootta, i>ho, by the way, bays la ibem ihe scskiDga of tbe finest aoldiera In tho world, h»ye been allowed to Battle &a closely together »s possible m tbe Pelican I*ke District if Manitoba. A large ■tretoh of land oonilgucuß to the rfi woy has been allotted to them cb easy ferine, hoaaeu hive beea eteaed for iluic uccommoditlon, und each emigrant has received " a yoka of oitu, a conr, * wugcoa with harneee, a plouch, b&rrow and other implements of the kind, ea well as a snppl/ of Uislul tooia for carpentering Riid euoh Kfee purpose:.'' The report of ihe Deputy <of Ihe Canadian Mlniottt for the Intetloc goecoa to' »&y that wheu he visited tho crofter colony the settlers wore earning good wages, tnsy were well satitfied with what had b^en deni for them, and vrero ▼cry confideo^ of their prospects ia the fatore. The Renerona action of tbe Ganada North-weit Land Company m giving np Bultabla land to the Immigranta and accepting In return other lands not ao favorably situated ia worthy of all comemendation. By t bis means the crofters, who j^fttnrally ate of a clannish dlspoaltion were eV&bled to live together as ono community fr> tholr new home, »a well as to be of motajL' asslstaDoo to etch otber m eases of need*