1 September 1993
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3 Canadian Immigration Literature
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5 ....edited by Marijan Salopek
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8 Report of the Superintendant of Immigration
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10 The volume of work at headquarters has not shown any diminution.
11 In the nine months ending March 31, 1906, 90,557 attachments were
12 made to our files; during the similar period covered by this
13 report the number of attachments was 102,956, and during this
14 same period 226,358 requests for information, direct and
15 indirect, were attended to, and 2,957,027 pamphlets, etc., were
16 sent out.
17 The following is a statement showing immigration literature
18 ordered during the nine months referred to:
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20 Gaelic pamphlet 10,000
21 The Canadian West 1,500
22 Symnposium of Ideas and Prophecies 1,500
23 The Canadian West 100,000
24 Reliable Information 2,000
25 Western Canada, A Land of Unequalled Opportunities 2,000
26 Great Growth of Western Canada 2,000
27 Western Canada, a Land of Unprecedented Progress 2,000
28 Book of Lectures 200
29 The Story of Western Canada Crop 300,000
30 Farm and Ranch Review 5,000
31 Canadian Year Book 5,000
32 Prince Edward Island pamphlet 30,000
33 Immigration Act 40,000
34 Canada in a Nutshell 100,000
35 Home Building in Canada 115,000
36 Classes Wanted in Canada 50,000
37 Land Regulations 50,000
38 Canada Wants Domestic Servants 50,000
39 A Travers le Canada 20,000
40 Illustrated Pamphlet of Winnipeg 1,000
41 Everyman's Geology of the Three Prairie Provinces
42 of the Canadian West 5,000
43 Eastern Townships 30,000
44 Reduced Rates for Settlers 100,000
45 How to Succeed in Canada 200,000
46 Canada, Work, Wages and Land (English) 200,000
47 Canada, Work, Wages and Land (Danish) 20,000
48 Canada, Work, Wages and Land (Norwegian) 20,000
49 Canada, Work, Wages and Land (Finnish) 20,000
50 Canada, Work, Wages and Land (German) 20,000
51 Canada, Work, Wages and Land (Swedish) 20,000
52 Canada, Work, Wages and Land (French) 20,000
53 Canada, Work, Wages and Land (Belgian) 20,000
54 Canada, the Land of Opportunity (English) 200,000
55 Canada, the Land of Opportunity (Swedish) 50,000
56 Canada, the Land of Opportunity (Norwegian) 50,000
57 Canada, the Land of Opportunity (Finnish) 50,000
58 Canada, the Land of Opportunity (Danish) 50,000
59 Canada, the Land of Opportunity (Flemish) 50,000
60 Canada, the Land of Opportunity (French) 50,000
61 Western Canada 500
62 Climate of Canada 500
63 Western Canada Early Days 500
64 Western Canada Crop Prospects 500
65 What Canada Possesses 500
66 Letters from Successful Settlers (French) 20,000
67 Hangers 50,000
68 Facts for Settlers 100,000
69 Last Best West 375,000
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71 MAPS
72 School Map of Canada (English) 30,000
73 School Map of Canada (French) 5,000
74 Battleford Map 10,500
75 Where and How (Folder Map) 100,000
76 Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Map 11,000
77 Small Dominion of Canada Map 5,000
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79 NEWSPAPERS
80 Alberta German Herald 10,000
81 Morning Chronicle, Halifax 15,000
82 Le Courier de l'Ouest 10,000
83 Saskatoon Phoenix 10,000
84 Hungarian paper, Winnipeg 15,000
85 Polish Paper, Winnipeg 10,000
86 German Paper, Battleford 25,000
87 The Canada (Swedish Weekly) 18,000
88 Der Nordwestern (German) 36,000
89 Logberg (Icelandic) 36,000
90 Outdoor Canada 450
91 Canadian Life and Resources 4,500
92 Danebrog (Danish) 9,000
93 Canada, London, England 18,750
94 Christmas Globe 200
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96 There has been an extraordinary demand in recent years for
97 farm help in the Province of Ontario, and in order to assist as
98 far as possible in meeting this demand the plan will be tried
99 this year of employongt agents on commission. We have in view
100 somewhere in the neighbourhood of 200 men, residing in
101 agricultural centres in this province, who will, I think, be
102 found willing and able to render valuable assistance in the
103 distribution of immigrants of the farm laborer class. A wide
104 distribution of the help coming in will thus be insured, and the
105 expense to the department will be very moderate, as we will only
106 pay for work actually done.
107 The operations of the department for the fractional fiscal
108 year in the United States are reported on by the Inspector of
109 Agencies, Mr. White, and the medical service id dealth with in
110 Dr. Bryce's report.
111 I have received a report from the Women's National
112 Immigration Society, 87, Osborne Street, Montreal, showing that
113 during the nine months ending the 31st March, k1908, 393
114 immigrants passed through the home maintained by this societ at
115 the above address, and the secretary states that the class of
116 women arriving was most satisfactory, and that all are doing
117 well.
118 The Ottawa Valley Immigration Aid Society, which received
119 some financial assistance from the department, has continued to
120 do good work during the year, the society's register showing an
121 average of something over 200 visitors per month, and a large
122 distribution of advertising matter. From the annual report I
123 learn that the society arranged for ten lectures, and directed
124 the placing of 661 settlers -- 350 in New Ontario, 190 in New
125 Quebec, and 121 in the Western Provinces.
126 The active and useful work carried on for a number of years
127 by the Quebec and Lake St. John Repatriation and Colonization
128 Society for the Province of Quebec has now been taken over by our
129 department and some other members of the staff of the society
130 have become employees of the department. Offices in connection
131 with this special work are now maintained in Quebec and in
132 Biddeford, Maine, and the arrangement is, I think, likely to be
133 productive of good results.
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135 Your obedient servant,
136 W. D. Scott,
137 Superintendent of Immigration