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holds the detained immigrant until he is instructed by the civil authorities either to let him go or to return him to the shipping company. There were in the hospital three men who had had delirium tremens on the way out from England. They were sent back by the "Empress of Britain," by which I sailed in the afternoon.
On board I met Professor Jacks, of Oxford, who was able to confirm the news- paper report that Dr. Gray had purchased a farm of about 2,000 acres 30 miles from Calgary. Professor Jacks had assisted Dr. Gray in the transaction and knew all about it. Dr. Gray had purchased the farm as a going concern, with all stock and a substantial house, and had put in charge an experienced Canadian farmer. His idea is to send out to the farm Bradfield boys of 17 or 18 years of age who will eventually farm in Canada. They are to do the actual farm work under conditions approximating as closely as possible to ordinary Canadian farm life. Professor Jacks had made a start by leaving his own son on the farm. He had brought him to Canada to get experience on the land before taking up a farm for him, and he thought this a good opportunity of securing the necessary training. His son was doing the same work as the ordinary farm hands, and was living under exactly the same conditions. Professor Jacks admitted that there were various rocks ahead. He feared that, when a number of English public school boys got together on the farm, it would be difficult to require them to put up with the very rough accommodation and lack of comforts to which the ordinary farm labourer is accustomed. and ordinary farm labourers employed on the farm, and the probable consequence It would not be possible to discriminate between them would be that no ordinary labourers would be employed. Left to themselves, the boys would probably erect their own standard of living and comfort, and, lacking the corrective which the conditions of the ordinary farm labourer were to have supplied, would form an idea of farm life in Canada entirely different from the specimens which they would meet as soon as they left the sheltering care of Dr. Gray's farm. It was also doubtful whether a Canadian farmer would be able to maintain discipline among a number of high-spirited English youths, with whom he would have to contend single-handed. It was, further, not clear what would happen in the winter, when the number actually required for the farm work would be seriously reduced.
I reached Liverpool on Friday, the 17th of September.
LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS SECURED BY MR. BUTLER.
Mr. George Gray, Immigration Officer, Immigration Department, Ottawa.
Mr. Cecil Bethune, Secretary, Board of Trade, Ottawa.
Mr. D. Sutherland, Director of Colonisation, Toronto.
Mr. Charles A. Murton, Secretary, Greater Hamilton Association, Hamilton.
Mr. R. H. Lewis, Government Inspector of Fruit Farms, Hamilton.
Miss Christine Muldoon, Superintendent, Girls' Home of Welcome, Winnipeg.
Mr. F. Bockus, Dominion Immigration Agent, Brandon.
Mr. O. L. Harwood, Secretary, Board of Trade, Brandon.
Mr. Clement, Dominion Land Agent, Brandon.
Mr. F. Hedley Auld, Chief of Bureau of Statistics and Information, Regina.
Mr. H. C. Lawson, Secretary, Board of Trade, Regina.
Mr. W. J. Webster, Dominion Immigration Agent, Edmonton.
Mr. A. G. Harrison, Secretary, Board of Trade, Edmonton.
Mr. James Winn, Dominion Immigration Agent, Calgary.
Mr. Sutherland, Dominion Lands Agent. Calgary.
Mr. C. H. Webster, Secretary, Board of Trade, Calgary.
Mr. J. H. MacGill, Dominion Immigration Agent, Vancouver.
Dr. H. G. Milne, Dominion Immigration Agent, Victoria.
Mr. J. T. Hall, Secretary, Board of Trade, Medicine Hat.
Mr. Griggs, Junr., Assistant to British Trade Commissioner to Dominion of
Canada, Montreal.
Mr. W. E. Cocks, Trades and Labour Council, Regina.
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