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• Targeted countries for immigration


  • United States
  • Britain
• These countries were targeted because they had large populations and many people were looking for new opportunities and a better life
• At the time Living is cheap; the climate is good; and education and land are free
• It was part of the Canadian government's drive to attract skilled farmers–British and American immigrants were primarily targeted–to settle and till the soils of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia, and turn the land into a cornucopia to feed industrialized eastern Canada and Europe
• What Sir John A Macdonald thought would benefit eastern industrial growth


  Establishing a larger market for reliable food production for its growing population on Canadian soil and eastern products and services
• The ideal agricultural society envisioned by government officials was modern, highly developed, and based on family values
• Advice for settlers with different amounts of capital


  • Man with less than $300: better work for wages the first year
  • Man with $600: get hold of their 160 homestead acres at once and build their shack
  • Man with $1,200: buy and provide fairly decent equipment and include one stubble plow at $20
• Canada's great product to sell

  Detailed colour maps of each of the four provinces, growing in later editions to four-page foldouts, which included the checkerboards of surveyed township borders showing where new farmland was available and its proximity to rivers, towns, roads, and railways
• Canada West provided comprehensive information for potential farm owners, as determined by the government
• Involvement of White Star Line and Canadian Pacific

  Offering transportation services for settlers coming to Canada
• Private shipping and railway corporations, such as the White Star Line and Canadian Pacific, launched their immigration campaigns since there was money to be made carrying enthusiastic young men and women and their possessions to their new homes in the West
• Between 1896 and 1914, approximately 2 million settlers came to Canada from Europe and the United States
• Immigration slowed down dramatically after 1914 due to the outbreak of World War I, which disrupted international travel and shifted the focus to military recruitment
• Conscription


  The compulsory enlistment of people into the armed forces
• Canada used conscription to their benefit by building a larger military force during times of need, particularly during World War I
• Many Americans planning to homestead in Canada heard rumors that immigrant settlers would be forced to serve at His Majesty's pleasure, so many stayed at home to escape prospective conscription
• Canada West discouraged settlers from moving to cities by promoting the benefits of agricultural life, emphasizing the abundance of available land, and downplaying the appeal of urban centers
• To discourage settlers from heading to urban centers, rural life had to be convincingly portrayed as more desirable, even idealized
• Cover illustrations were the publication's best tool to visually reinforce the government's agenda to populate the farms with prosperous white families
• The children on the cover of the magazine presented an idealized version of life in Canada, masking the challenges and hardships that many settlers faced upon arrival
• Laurier Boom


  A period of great economic expansion and prosperity in Canada in the late 1890s and early 1900s, led mainly by Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier
• The Laurier Boom era played a relative importance in Canada's economic growth which helped its economy be developed as it is today