1September 1993 2 3 Canadian Immigration Literature 4 5 ....edited by Marijan Salopek 6 7 =============================== 8 Report of the Superintendant of Immigration 9 10 The volume of work at headquarters has not shown any diminution. 11 In the nine months ending March 31, 1906, 90,557 attachments were 12 made to our files; during the similar period covered by this 13 report the number of attachments was 102,956, and during this 14 same period 226,358 requests for information, direct and 15 indirect, were attended to, and 2,957,027 pamphlets, etc., were 16 sent out. 17 The following is a statement showing immigration literature 18 ordered during the nine months referred to: 19 20 Gaelic pamphlet 10,000 21 The Canadian West 1,500 22 Symnposium of Ideas and Prophecies 1,500 23 The Canadian West 100,000 24 Reliable Information 2,000 25 Western Canada, A Land of Unequalled Opportunities 2,000 26 Great Growth of Western Canada 2,000 27 Western Canada, a Land of Unprecedented Progress 2,000 28 Book of Lectures 200 29 The Story of Western Canada Crop 300,000 30 Farm and Ranch Review 5,000 31 Canadian Year Book 5,000 32 Prince Edward Island pamphlet 30,000 33 Immigration Act 40,000 34 Canada in a Nutshell 100,000 35 Home Building in Canada 115,000 36 Classes Wanted in Canada 50,000 37 Land Regulations 50,000 38 Canada Wants Domestic Servants 50,000 39 A Travers le Canada 20,000 40 Illustrated Pamphlet of Winnipeg 1,000 41 Everyman's Geology of the Three Prairie Provinces 42 of the Canadian West 5,000 43 Eastern Townships 30,000 44 Reduced Rates for Settlers 100,000 45 How to Succeed in Canada 200,000 46 Canada, Work, Wages and Land (English) 200,000 47 Canada, Work, Wages and Land (Danish) 20,000 48 Canada, Work, Wages and Land (Norwegian) 20,000 49 Canada, Work, Wages and Land (Finnish) 20,000 50 Canada, Work, Wages and Land (German) 20,000 51 Canada, Work, Wages and Land (Swedish) 20,000 52 Canada, Work, Wages and Land (French) 20,000 53 Canada, Work, Wages and Land (Belgian) 20,000 54 Canada, the Land of Opportunity (English) 200,000 55 Canada, the Land of Opportunity (Swedish) 50,000 56 Canada, the Land of Opportunity (Norwegian) 50,000 57 Canada, the Land of Opportunity (Finnish) 50,000 58 Canada, the Land of Opportunity (Danish) 50,000 59 Canada, the Land of Opportunity (Flemish) 50,000 60 Canada, the Land of Opportunity (French) 50,000 61 Western Canada 500 62 Climate of Canada 500 63 Western Canada Early Days 500 64 Western Canada Crop Prospects 500 65 What Canada Possesses 500 66 Letters from Successful Settlers (French) 20,000 67 Hangers 50,000 68 Facts for Settlers 100,000 69 Last Best West 375,000 70 71 MAPS 72 School Map of Canada (English) 30,000 73 School Map of Canada (French) 5,000 74 Battleford Map 10,500 75 Where and How (Folder Map) 100,000 76 Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Map 11,000 77 Small Dominion of Canada Map 5,000 78 79 NEWSPAPERS 80 Alberta German Herald 10,000 81 Morning Chronicle, Halifax 15,000 82 Le Courier de l'Ouest 10,000 83 Saskatoon Phoenix 10,000 84 Hungarian paper, Winnipeg 15,000 85 Polish Paper, Winnipeg 10,000 86 German Paper, Battleford 25,000 87 The Canada (Swedish Weekly) 18,000 88 Der Nordwestern (German) 36,000 89 Logberg (Icelandic) 36,000 90 Outdoor Canada 450 91 Canadian Life and Resources 4,500 92 Danebrog (Danish) 9,000 93 Canada, London, England 18,750 94 Christmas Globe 200 95 96 There has been an extraordinary demand in recent years for 97 farm help in the Province of Ontario, and in order to assist as 98 far as possible in meeting this demand the plan will be tried 99 this year of employongt agents on commission. We have in view 100 somewhere in the neighbourhood of 200 men, residing in 101 agricultural centres in this province, who will, I think, be 102 found willing and able to render valuable assistance in the 103 distribution of immigrants of the farm laborer class. A wide 104 distribution of the help coming in will thus be insured, and the 105 expense to the department will be very moderate, as we will only 106 pay for work actually done. 107 The operations of the department for the fractional fiscal 108 year in the United States are reported on by the Inspector of 109 Agencies, Mr. White, and the medical service id dealth with in 110 Dr. Bryce's report. 111 I have received a report from the Women's National 112 Immigration Society, 87, Osborne Street, Montreal, showing that 113 during the nine months ending the 31st March, k1908, 393 114 immigrants passed through the home maintained by this societ at 115 the above address, and the secretary states that the class of 116 women arriving was most satisfactory, and that all are doing 117 well. 118 The Ottawa Valley Immigration Aid Society, which received 119 some financial assistance from the department, has continued to 120 do good work during the year, the society's register showing an 121 average of something over 200 visitors per month, and a large 122 distribution of advertising matter. From the annual report I 123 learn that the society arranged for ten lectures, and directed 124 the placing of 661 settlers -- 350 in New Ontario, 190 in New 125 Quebec, and 121 in the Western Provinces. 126 The active and useful work carried on for a number of years 127 by the Quebec and Lake St. John Repatriation and Colonization 128 Society for the Province of Quebec has now been taken over by our 129 department and some other members of the staff of the society 130 have become employees of the department. Offices in connection 131 with this special work are now maintained in Quebec and in 132 Biddeford, Maine, and the arrangement is, I think, likely to be 133 productive of good results. 134 135 Your obedient servant, 136 W. D. Scott, 137 Superintendent of Immigration