THE SELECTION OF IMMIGRANTS
CANADIAN METHODS.
An indication of the care that is being exercised by the officials of the Canadian Department of Immigration and Colonisation to enforce the regulations of tho recently amended Immigration Act, designed to prevent any but the best possiblo class of settlers fTom entering Canada, is shown in the figures for rejections and deportation for the first half of the current fiscal year. During this period rejections totalled 12,500, or, roughly, one in every five of the number of persons admitted. Of the rejections were made at boundary points in Canada and only 495 at ocean ports. The majority of those refused, admission came under tho cause listed as "indirect passage," and were of Luropenn nationality. , ■ According to the Immigration Act a person, not a citiz'm of Canada, desiring to enter must do so direct, by continuous passugo from the country in which be is a oitizen. The actual number of rejections under this heading was 6232. For lack of funds—that is, not having even the small amount of cash prescribed by the Act—39*ls were turned back. Mien enemies, numbering 178, found the door of admission closed to them, and 311 persons likely to become public charges were refused. The balnncfe of 134 were illiterate, clefectivo physically and mentally, unskilled abourers, known bad characters, etc. Of the 33,579 British immigrants entering tho Dominion, approximately 25G74 were the wives and children of Canadian soldiers who married overseas, and 3173 were of the farming class, tho remainder including domestic servants and other classes considered: desirable. Of the 31,680 frfom the United States 14,299 were farmers and their families. Tho other 17.551 were also settlers of the best class. A largo percentage of the 3457 from other countries were farmers with their wives and children.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 6
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297THE SELECTION OF IMMIGRANTS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 6
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