A NEW NATION

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2026, 11 March 1907, Page 1

A NEW NATION

Archdeacon Lloyd,of Saskatchewan, was tho principal speaker at a conversazione of the British AVomcn’s Emigration Association at the Imperial Institute, London. The population in the area of land lying between the Great Lakes and the Rockies was, observed Archdeacon Lloyd, nothing less than a new nation in being. Until quite recently it was an almost uninhabited country, but tho rebellion of 1885 did good in throwing open the doors of tb.e West. Between 1885 and 1900 people went into the country by tens and hundreds. Since 1900 immigrants had poured in by thousands, and whereas in 1903 there was only one train per week running through the country, the railway could not at the present time run enough trains to meet the ever-growing traffic in goods and passengers. The speaker stated that in the near future two main trunk lines would run through the diocese of Saswatchewan.

He advised all English people who contemplated emigrating to Canada to go out immediately, “Got ahead of the railway,” was the advice he gave to all emigrants. It was no good trailing in after the trains were i mining, as all the best land had by that time been secured. It was a grievous thing to see all tho beautiful land out there, that could be got for practically nothing, going to foreigners. There ought to be some machinery by which the surplus population of the British Isles could be sent out at once, and placed in the great belt of land, that v/as being opened up, and which in three years’ time would be completely developed. Bishop Montgomery also spoke, and stated that the Church of England would do everything possible to help on the good work which was being carried on in the Far West.

Mrs Joyce, in moving a vote of thanks to Archdeacon Lloyd and Bishop Montgomery, stated that she and all tiio members of the British AVomen’s Emigration Association considered emigration a deeply religious work. It was tile handmaid pf religion and the servant of Empire. Sir Kirkwood briefly seconded the vote, after which a number of beautiful viexvs of the country and the settlers were shown on the screen.