. Land of promise [microform] : a few facts worth reading. Agriculture; Crops and climate; Agriculture; Agriculture et climat. THE LAND OF PROMISE. (From the Montreal Gazette, Deccmljcr i3tli, 1882.) *•*. We print this morning a report of an interview which a reporter of the Winnipeg 8un had with Mr. Kon- , a farmer from Staffordshire, England, on the subject of the pros- pects of settlers in the North-west. Mr. Kendrick came to Canada last spring, and was at once attached to one of the examining parties of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. This gave him the opportunity of ma iing a
. Land of promise [microform] : a few facts worth reading. Agriculture; Crops and climate; Agriculture; Agriculture et climat. THE LAND OF PROMISE. (From the Montreal Gazette, Deccmljcr i3tli, 1882.) *•*. We print this morning a report of an interview which a reporter of the Winnipeg 8un had with Mr. Kon- , a farmer from Staffordshire, England, on the subject of the pros- pects of settlers in the North-west. Mr. Kendrick came to Canada last spring, and was at once attached to one of the examining parties of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. This gave him the opportunity of ma iing a very thorough examination of \;he lands within the railway belt, as far west as a few miles beyond Moose Jaw Creek. Having had the pleasure of an interview with Mr. Kendrick, we have no doubt that bis statements are to be quite relied upon. He is evidently a man of more than ordinary intelligence; has been at farming all his lifetime; and is very careful not to state anything but what he believes to be within the truth. He appears to appreciate, what is too often lost sight of by those who give information in rela- tion to fields foi- immigration, that the emigrant is apt to take a some- what optimist view of everything that is said, and that, 011 this account, the most scrupulous care has to be taken to say nothing which would lead to disappointment. There is nothing more disheartening to 11 newly-arrived immigrant than to find from his first impressions of his new home, that he has been deceived by too highly-coloured representations. We have seldom met anyone who appeared more fully to realise this than does Mr. Kendrick. He has great faith in the North-west as a homo for industrious settlers. He is thoroughly convinced that a man willing and able to work, and who is prepared to face and overcome the initial hardships which are incidelit to pioneersettlement in all countries,can- not fail of success. And he has come to this conclusion from a personal exami- nation of the c
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