The Canadian Dominion; a Chronicle of Our Northern Neighbor
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In 1896 the immigrants from the United States to Canada hadbeen so few as not to be recorded; in 1897 there were 2000; in 1899, 12, 000; in the fiscal year 1902-03, 50, 000; and in 1912-13, 139, 000. The new immigrants proved to be the best of settlers; nearly all wereprogressive farmers experienced in western methods and possessed ofcapital. The countermovement from Canada to the United States neverwholly ceased, but it slackened and was much more than offset by thisnorthward rush. Nothing so ...helped to confirm Canadian confidence intheir own land and to make the outside world share this high estimate asthis unimpeachable evidence from over a million American newcomers whofound in Canada, between 1897 and 1914, greater opportunities than eventhe United States could offer. The Ministry then carried its propagandato Great Britain. Newspapers, schools, exhibitions were used in wayswhich startled the stolid Englishman into attention. Circumstancesplayed into the hands of the propagandists, who took advantage of theflow of United States settlers into the West, the Klondike gold fieldsrush, the presence of Laurier at the Jubilee festivities at London in1897, Canada's share in the Boer War.
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