. The advantages of Canada for emigrants. ur Sons. is becoming increasingly urgent. The professions are overstocked; our elementary schools are yearlyturning out hosts of children well equipped for every kind ofclerical work. hi every line of business, competition is gettingincreasingly keen, and openings offering any definite prospect areexceedingly difficult to find. Then, too, money is so cheap in England,and the rate of interest in sound securities so small, that many who intimes past W< re, comfortable in the possession of an adequate and Paper by liev. John Lightfooi. 5 inured Income,
. The advantages of Canada for emigrants. ur Sons. is becoming increasingly urgent. The professions are overstocked; our elementary schools are yearlyturning out hosts of children well equipped for every kind ofclerical work. hi every line of business, competition is gettingincreasingly keen, and openings offering any definite prospect areexceedingly difficult to find. Then, too, money is so cheap in England,and the rate of interest in sound securities so small, that many who intimes past W< re, comfortable in the possession of an adequate and Paper by liev. John Lightfooi. 5 inured Income, now find themselves pinched and crippled in no smalldegree. Now, I think a very Large number of people amongst what isknown as the better middle class, and to whom the conditions of[English commercial life are a source of perplexity, would do well tostudy the question of emigration in respect to their childrens is an opening in Canada, and an excellent one too ; but, ofcourse, there is a right and a wrong way of seeking wsmm A FARM-HOUSE, SOJTHERN MANITOBA. A widow lady, whom I knew well, told me a few years ago that herson had decided to emigrate. He was just the right person, a strong,active youth of some 22 years of age. The mother, at no smail self-sacrifice, scraped together some two hundred pounds, so that her boymight have a fair start in the new country. At the time he started hehad no definite plan as to his future, nor, indeed, had he any practicalknowledge of agriculture, or any other work. His idea was to go outinto the country, look round a little, and take the most promising thingthat turned up. I regret that at the time I had no knowledge ofthe subject, and could suggest nothing better, although my commonsense ought to have told me that things dont turn up in this casualfashion either in Canada or anywhere else. The young man went, butin less than two years he was home again, penniless, and with nothingbut evil to say of the country and its peo
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