. Canada in 1880 [microform] : reports of tenant farmers' delegates on the Dominion of Canada as a field for settlement. Agriculture; Land settlement; Agriculture; Colonisation intérieure. TiU Introduction to First Series of Rt^ortt. % . !/;-r ' ( reports of the dclMates, m they will be read with very great and ipeoial interest by many in the United Kingdom. It may, however, be generally stated that those who went to Manitoba and contiguous parts of the adjoining t^iritory, found the land to be of extraordinary riohneas, and specially adapteU !•. 1*..9 ^owth of wheat; while in the older provin
. Canada in 1880 [microform] : reports of tenant farmers' delegates on the Dominion of Canada as a field for settlement. Agriculture; Land settlement; Agriculture; Colonisation intérieure. TiU Introduction to First Series of Rt^ortt. % . !/;-r ' ( reports of the dclMates, m they will be read with very great and ipeoial interest by many in the United Kingdom. It may, however, be generally stated that those who went to Manitoba and contiguous parts of the adjoining t^iritory, found the land to be of extraordinary riohneas, and specially adapteU !•. 1*..9 ^owth of wheat; while in the older provinces of the Dominion they founa the conditions of mixed farming very much the same as in the United Kingdom. One of the dologates, Mr. Elliot, stated that, in the parts of the Dominion he visited, he did not find uiat cattle required to be Jboused longer than in Scotland. Several of the delegates refer to the question why farms may be bought in the older provinces, and why the land is so cheap. In so far as respects price, in the last-named portion of the Dominion, it is to be oosorved that the value of occupied land in the older parts of a new country liko Canada must neceHsarily, to a great extent, be governed—fii-st, by the cost of clearing new forest land in the wooded parts; and, second, by the facility with which prait-ie land can be obtained free, to the extent of 160 acres, on the simple condition of continuouit Bottlement for three years. It must be plain to all men that the fact of vast areas being open to settlement on such con- ditions will largely affect prices of occupied land a few hundred miles distant, to which there is connection both by water and rail. A fact to be remarked is that the farmer who migrates from the British Islands to any part of Canada does not chiinge his flag; nor does he, except to very slight degree, change his mode of life or his companionship. He ffoes among his own people, io conditions of life and society the same as those he leave
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