The university in overalls; a plea for part-time study . oners and unemployed should have beenutilized in great land-clearing undertakings since 1867,or, for that matter, since 1763. Another reason why settlement is at a standstill in ourgreat clay belts to-day is the absence of women from theland. Hven the privilege of living in camp communitiesinstead of on individual homesteads, while a percentageof the land is being cleared and buildings erected, will notof itself hold the homesteaders. This has been demon-strated at Kapuskasing. There the retxrrned men areallowed to live together. They ha
The university in overalls; a plea for part-time study . oners and unemployed should have beenutilized in great land-clearing undertakings since 1867,or, for that matter, since 1763. Another reason why settlement is at a standstill in ourgreat clay belts to-day is the absence of women from theland. Hven the privilege of living in camp communitiesinstead of on individual homesteads, while a percentageof the land is being cleared and buildings erected, will notof itself hold the homesteaders. This has been demon-strated at Kapuskasing. There the retxrrned men areallowed to live together. They have the advantage of alibrary, reading room, gramophone, and piano, and yet itis difficult to keep more than a bakers dozen of singlemen at the camp. Practically none took advantage ofthe courses of study offered at Monteith AgriculturalCollege. Women in the Cochrane district, however, haveused the Monteith College. Given free homesteads andsimilar privileges, women will not only fill the college withmen, they will make settlement camps more popular for. #*«, Settlement in the wooded lands of northern Canada will be encour-aged when women are granted land on exactly the same terms asthe men. (Facinc; page (•.».) Frontier Setti<embnt and Unemployment 65 men really anxious to make a home for in the wooded lands of northern Canada willbe encom-aged when women are granted land on exactlythe same terms as the men. In the report to the British Parliament, made byMiss G. S. Pott, and Miss F. M; Girdler, the two English-women who were sent to Canada in April, 1919, to enquireinto the openings in Canada for women from the UnitedKingdom, among other things we note the following: The isolation of farms in some parts of the provinces,especially in the middle west, renders the life of womenvery lonely. Not only is this circumstance extremelytrying to young women accustomed to the crowded con-ditions of life in England, but it increases the diEEicultyof their empl
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