THE EXODUS FROM BRITAIN

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 5

THE EXODUS FROM BRITAIN

BOOMING DAYS IN CANADA. Tho movements of emigration from tho United Kingdom during a period of 55 years ending in 1908 are shown in an elaborate set of .statistics prepared for the Colonial Institute. Special pains have been taken to make the record completo for the last 32 years of tho time covered, and totals aro supplied giving the net emigration to each ol' the principal countries. The number of Jinglish, Scotch, and Irish people who emigrated between 1876' and 1303 and did not return is 4,01C,25)2. Of this total, 2,-129,808 wont to tho United States, 805,737 to Canada, 537,920 to Australia and New Zealand, 127,7(3 to South Africa, and 115,007 to "other places." According to another statistical tabic giving the annual outflow of population from tho United Kingdom, tho English proportion of the total net' emigration increased from 30 lo 'liO per cent, between 1853 aud 1908, "and tho Scotch from !) to 10 per cent., while tho Irish, in tho same period, 'declined from Gl to 15 per cent.

Never before, writes tho Canadian correspondent of '"The Times," have we had such a remarkable movement towards tlie Western prairies as wo are now witnessing. Both from Europe and from tlie United States settlers are coming by tons of thousands. Mr. William AVhyte, second vice-president of tho Canadian Pacific Railway, reports that: the class of immigrants this year both from the United States and the Mother Country is the best ever received. ' Mr. AVhyto is convinced that in a few years the United States must import wheat from Canada if the- big mills at Minneapolis are to be kept running. Speak of the specially-pre-pared farms for immigrants which the -Canadian Pacific Railway had designed. Mr. Whytu said these were intended mainly for British tenant farmers who were accustomed to carry on operations with a foreman, and to do little work themselves. These men could be practically helpless if set down upon unbroken land, and tho. company was therefore breaking up tho land and building houses. If tho plan should be successful, there would bo extensions in tho futurw.