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National Archives of Canada
C-137975 		 

Canadian Pacific Railway advertisement in Britain, 1888. Unfortunately the hoped-for rush of British immigrants to western Canada did not materialise for many years.

A popular CPR publication, What Settlers Say Of the Canadian North-West, was based on over 300 replies by British settlers to a questionnaire covering all aspects of life and work in western Canada.

The 1886 edition of What Settlers Say made no reference to the 1885 Metis uprising, or to Canadian Indians. But in a parallel publication, What Women Say Of The Canadian North-West, settlers' wives were asked "Do you experience any fear of the Indians?" According to the Canadian Pacific Railway, a majority said "no", "none", "never did" etc.




The poster shows Canada's five new Experimental Farms, where crops best suited to each region of Canada were developed and tested. The highly successful Marquis wheat was developed by Experimental Farm scientists.

A Canadian Pacific Railway advertisement appears at the bottom of this poster, which was actually produced by the Department of the Interior. That dates the poster to ca.1893, when responsibility for Immigration passed from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Interior.

  
National Archives of Canada,
Government Archives TR 15/08

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