NORTH AMERICAN TREK.
; UNITED STATES EMIGRANTS - FOR • , CANADA. (By Tolegraph,-Proas AsßOciation.-CopyTight.) / . Ottawa, Juno 17, OiScial figures.- show that 69,800 immigrants entered Canada from tho United States during the year ended March last. Their value in moMy ia estimated'' at' twelve millions sterling. COMPLETE FIGURES FOR 1603-09. , from Canada appeared in '. The Times" of April 21:-"The total number of lmniigrants for the: year ended March. 31 was 146,008, oom'pured ; with -'262,467 m tho previous year.'.-' • British : immigrants numbered 52,801, being a decrease of ',68,000: Continental immigrants numbered 34,175, a deof, W. 800; . and immigrants from the United j States numbered 59,832, a 'slight increase. ■ .; According ,to,-the, same 'paper, . tho last- three months, of. this period—that.'is,'the first thrpe months of 1903—were.marked by a 50 por cent, increase, as compared with the corresponding months of 1808, iii the nunibor of immigrants from tho United States Pacific Coast. In Maroh evory train northwards was reported to be carrying home-seekors'and families hurrying to'settle on lands in Alberta and' Saskatchewan. in time for the spring sowing. 'The prospects of emigration from the Pacific States of the Union to Cajuda were oonsidercd to be never better.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 533, 19 June 1909, Page 5
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189NORTH AMERICAN TREK. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 533, 19 June 1909, Page 5
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