BRITISH WOMEN EMIGRANTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12, 5 May 1914, Page 4

BRITISH WOMEN EMIGRANTS.

The annual meeting of the British Women’s Emigration Association was held on March 11th, at the Mansipn House. Last year the Association dealt with 4335 applications, of which 3G4 were from trained nurses and to. from teachers. The number of uomen emigrated was 1201, of whom 1602 went to Canada. The Association takes only women of good character and’capability, and they are sent out in parties under the care of an experienced matron. The Association has its own hostel in London, and another in British Columbia. Over 10.000 women have travelled under the auspices of the Association since its formation' in 1884. The ffshop of Yukon said there were 700,000 or, 800.000 more men than women in Canada. If we encouraged our men to go to the oversea dominions wo should also encourage women to go. There were thousands of aliens flocking to Canada, and the problem was to”mako them British citizens. Tiiat problem could bo solved if they got a sufficient number of women of British origin to go to Canada as servants, as teachers, nurses, or wives. Mrs Bevan said all women were good; but some were good for anything and some wore good for nothing. It tv as difficult to discriminate between those whom it was better to leave at home and those who had grit and character. They did not send out cooks. They aimed at sending out educated women, who were adaptable to new conditions and had resource in meeting difficulties in a new country. Educated women who became clerks and typists, ana generally had about £5 between them and starvation, wore sometimes ready to go. In the dominions they were better paid and more comfortably housed, and they had a far larger scope.