Excerpt from Canada, the New Nation: A Book for the Settler, the Emigrant, and the Politician IN January 1905 it was my professional duty to go to Canada to study the emigration movement. To obtain first-hand knowledge I travelled steerage with a ship load of emigrants from Liverpool. On landing at St. John, New Brunswick, the question whether Canada in mid-winter would yield a subsistence to a new arrival was put to a practical and personal test. The stream of immigration westward and northward was then followed, the Pacific Ocean being reached in May and the return to Montreal made at the end of June. During five months' almost constant travel I visited the greater part of the settled portions of Eastern Canada, traversed the Prairie region in various directions, found and took up a homestead - a Free Farm of 160 acres - in the Saskatchewan Valley, wandered in British Columbia and on the Pacific Slope, and, on the return east, made a detour northward into the great Clay Belt, which in a few years will be opened up for colonisation by the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway - the second line of com munication between Ocean and Ocean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.