AMERICANISED CANADA.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1097, 8 April 1911, Page 5

AMERICANISED CANADA.

SETTLERS POURING IN. By Telegraph—Press,Association—Copyrielit Ottawa, April 6. . Five train-loads of moneyed settlers arrived at Winnipeg, Manitoba, from the United States' on Wednesday last.

In the last ten years 600,000 natives of the British Islands have gono to Canada. Over 20 per cent, of theip have taken to farming in the Canadian' West; 15 per cent, are working as farm labourers thero or in the province of Ontario, and many of these will some day have \,id of their own; 15 per cent, have gone into domestic service; 40 per cent, are skilled or unskilled hands in ' virions callings in the cities and towns of the older provinces or in Winnipeg, Calgary, or Vancouver; and tho remaining 10 per cent, have cither returned to tho Old Country ov crossed tho boundary into the United States. These percentages are not official, but are given by the correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian' as being tolerably near tho mar)' During the same period 500,000 American settlers have moved into the Canadian' West,' chiefly into the provinces of Saskatchewan : and Alberta, over 40 per cent, of whom have taken up' farm land, while the rest are raising cattle on the ranges, mining, lumbering, or keeping store. Of late the number of arrivals from the United Kingdom has declined, but the influx from the United States, which, as stated, plants ihelf entirely in the West, is steadily increasing. _ In the decade 395,000 settlers from Continental Europe have come in, over 30 per cent, of whom have gone upon laud m the West.