AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1925, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS

'UBTUitIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION U.S.A. EXPOSITION. WASHINGTON. .March 2.1. President Coolii'lge has issued ;i proclamation inviting all Foreign Governments to participate in an International Exposition at Philadelphia from June 10th to November 30th in 1920. CANADIAN IMMIGRATION CAMPAIGN. NEW YORK. .Match 24. Colonel John Dennis, Chief Commissioner ol the Department of Colonisation and Development for the Cnndniau Pacific Bailway Company, sails for Hurope to-day io start a movement which is expected to bring several thousand new settlers to Canada, this year, as a result of the present limitations under tlie immigration laws of the United States. Fifteen Canadian agents are abroad, expediting the immigration movement, principally from the Scandinavian countries. ami especially from Denmark. Fifty thousand acres of larm lands in Western Canada await development. A great influx of colonists is expected its the result of the completion of an immigration project at Hassano. near Calgary, where the Bow Bivcr has been dammed at a cost of sixteen million dollars.

In l.eithhridgo, an irrigation district is also being opened, which makes hundreds of thousands of acres ready for immediate settlement. Last year the Canadian Pacific Co. alone handled fifty-six thousand colonists by boat and rail, and they will probably carrv one thousand this year.

There are indications also of a large migration from the United States to Western Canada, following on a drop during tlie war.

Neither the Canadian Government nor the Railwav Company aid colonists to reach Canada ; hut they unite to make it easy for them io acquire farms after arrival. Kadi lots spent approximately six hundred million dollars on colonisation. Land within the irrigation districts will sell from fortysix to sixty dollars per acre, while other land costs from ten to twenty dollars per acre. The payment of two hundred dollars yearly over a 14-vear period makes the colonists the owners of their land.