Speech #590149624

I know what the effect is. I wish to read briefly from the report of the board of trade of the city of Calgary. under the heading "The American in Canada." The present "trek" of Americans from every State of the Union Into the Canadian West is a historymaking movement. The Britisber. who is undecided whether to emigrate to the States or to Canada. stands aghast when he is shown the following statistics of American immigration into Alberta and other portions of. western Canada: 189 4-----------------------------------------------------9 1897 --------------------------------------------------- 712 1898 -----------------------------------------------9. 119 1899 ----------------------------------------------------11.945 1900 --------------------------------------------------- 15. 570 1901L ----------------------------------------------- 17.958 1902 ---------------------------------------------------21. 672 1903 --------------------------------------------------- 47. 780 1901 ----------------------------------------------------4. 173 1905 --------------------------------------------------- 105.000 I am told that during the year 1906 more than 150.000 men left our western country to go into the Dominion of Canada to settle upon land there. I think this is one of the legitimate results of the policy to which the Senator is referring. The report continues: He is now wisely deciding to go with the crowd. At the National Irrigation Congress. at Portland. Oreg.. in 1905. it was stated: " The bone and sinew of the Mississippi Valley have been moving into western Canada for the past four years to find farms and fortunes. rhe remarIablic thing about this movement. however. is not the grand total. but the steadily increasing volume of immigration. The annual movement from the United States has increased practically a thousandfold in the past nine years.