. Agricultural and industrial progress in Canada. Agriculture; Agriculture. amounting to only 7,921 in 1897. Year by year, however, it consistently increased in volume, reaching the fifty thousand status in 1906, and the hundred thousand in 1910. It arrived at its zenith in 1913, the year prior to the outbreak of the war, with a total of 139,009 citizens added to Canada's people. From 1914 to 1919, as all causes contributed to keep peoples^ at home, returns dwindled tremendously, and im- migration for the fiscal year just passed amounted to 48,059, or about one-third that of 1913. Indications
. Agricultural and industrial progress in Canada. Agriculture; Agriculture. amounting to only 7,921 in 1897. Year by year, however, it consistently increased in volume, reaching the fifty thousand status in 1906, and the hundred thousand in 1910. It arrived at its zenith in 1913, the year prior to the outbreak of the war, with a total of 139,009 citizens added to Canada's people. From 1914 to 1919, as all causes contributed to keep peoples^ at home, returns dwindled tremendously, and im- migration for the fiscal year just passed amounted to 48,059, or about one-third that of 1913. Indications are however that interest in Canada is again dom- inant across the border, and that the figures of pre-war days will short- ly be recorded again. Two pleasing features cf United States im- migration, as compared for instance with that from the British Isles, are that such a large portion of its members finds its way to the land where Canadian development is funda- mentally centered, and that in their possession of wealth per capita they exceed any other contributing nation. It is unfortunately not possible to state, or evenly accurately esti- mate, the numbers or proportion of United States immigrants who have become Canadian farmers, but it' is sig- nificant that in the ten- year period 1901-1911, of the 175,781 United States citizens who ar- rived in Canada to make permanent homes 165,896 settled in the four western province? with their newly-opened areas of fertile, agri- cultural lands. In the past quarter century of all the homestead entries, twenty-six per cent, were made by farmers from across the line, and irt conjunction with this it must be remember- ed that most United States farmers come to Canada with substantial wealth and prefer to purchase private or improved land. In the year 1920 of the 48,866 immigrants from the United States, 16,177, or roughly one- third, declared their intention of going on the land. In 1919 United States immigrants. brought with them an a
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