Article September 18, 1902 Issue

Migration to the Canadian Northwest

Cy Warman

Review of Reviews

Why do they "trek"? This is a question which many of my fellow-countrymen in the United States are now asking with regard to the stream of emigrants from the Republic to the Dominion of Canada. But yesterday the stream flowed the other way, and the people of Canada trooped over to the United States, thousands of them, every year. Now the trek is to the north; the "balance of trade" is with the Canadians.

It is not through any antipathy to American institutions that these hardy sons of the soil,—for the emigrants are notably the best type of agriculturists,—go forth to take up new homes in the sparsely settled great land of the north. The outgoers are men and women who have nothing but the kindest regard for the Republic and republican institutions.

Social and industrial reasons alone dictate the emigration. The desire of the emigrants is to better themselves. Within the past few years Canada has been discovered. She might have been discovered before, only the enterprising population to the south of the Dominion were too busy discovering the almost boundless resources of their own country, and bringing them into subjection, to permit of much time being devoted to their neighbors.

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