GERMANS IN CANADA
PROTEST AGATNST IMMIGRATION PROPOSALS.
FILM ON TOTIN'. Feb. ■!. Alberta veterans of the war are registering very strong protests against the action of the Canadian Government in permitting colonisation emissaries from Germany to travel through Western Canada, seeking opportunities to place German settlers on prairie farm lands.
A recent visit to Edmonton, the capital of Alberta, of two German representatives and their announcement in the public Press that they proposed to settle 3,000 Germans on farms in Western Canada, roused a storm of protest, in the midst of which the visitors departed .somewhat hastily. Members of t!;e Edmonton branch of the Grout War Veterans' Association passed a resolution of protest, which lias been sent to both the Dominion and the provincial Governments, pointing out that there are probably two million men in England without work, and urging that if settlors are required, the Canadian Government shoul darrange to bring some of these men nut to the Wpsfovn provinces,
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1924, Page 2
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