TRUE CANADIANS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 59, 3 December 1926, Page 3

TRUE CANADIANS

DRIFT BACK FROM UNITED STATES Dominion Special. : , 'i Dunedin, December 2. Colonel J. Sclater, who is at present in Dunedin, is the representative of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Australia and New Zealand, and cn subiects pertaining to Canada he speaks with authority and enthusiasm. He was born in Kirkwall, Orkney, ano at the age of 21 left for Canada, where he started a new life. His present duties necessitate his living m Sydney, but be makes periodical visits' to Canada. . “Don’t you believe anything thev tell vou about Canada joining up with the 'United States,” he said. “She stands solidly by the Old Land and the Imperial spirit' burns as brightly in Canada as in any other part of Britain’s far-flung Empire.” Colonel Sclater said that immigration to Canada for the first seven months of 1926 was 68 per cent, greater than that for the same period of 1925. According to the figures of the Department of Immigration ."nd Colonisation, the total influx >; .for the first seven, months of this year had been 66,480, compared with 51,400 for the same period in 1925. The figures had heen made up as follow: From the British Isles, 33,142; from the United States, 12,234;. from other countries, 41,10!. Included in the new arrivals in Canada in the month' of Julv were 61,877 Canadians from the United States, and these were returning from the. States after having made permanent homes there for periods longer than six months.”

"Whatever drift of population there may have been from Canada to the States,” he went on, “you will see for yourself that there is now a drift back.” ’ ’- ."Can the country absorb all the people coming to it?” asked the interviewer.

“We can take them all,” emphatically replied Colonel Sclater.