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Banner: Moving Here, Staying Here. The Canadian Immigrant Experience
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Settlement Schemes

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Photograph of emigrants, mostly children, posing for a photograph on deck of a ship, Liverpool, England, June 12, 1902

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Dreams

Pamphlet entitled YOUR CHANCE TO OWN YOUR FARM, 1924

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British officials who created the Empire Settlement Act and the agreements that followed from it certainly had their dreams of resettling large numbers of people throughout the Empire, but these dreams were based largely on a concept of the Empire that had been irreversibly altered by the events of the First World War. Nevertheless, the emigrants who heeded the call, including single women, juveniles, farmers and farm workers, recognized that resettlement in Canada was an opportunity unlike any other.

Statistical chart and report, British Empire Settlement Scheme, to February 28, 1927

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Thousands took advantage of the training, financial assistance and passage to Canada provided by the British government. For generations, Britons had looked to Canada as a place to begin again, to find employment, or to set down roots. As had been the case for earlier British emigrants, many met with disappointment and distress, but many others discovered the land of their dreams and became part of the fabric of their new country.

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