INVENTORY #154807
Canada West
ROBB, Hon. James Alexander
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Booklet issued by direction of Hon. James Robb, Minister of Immigration and Colonization. Provides prospective settlers with information about western Canada, including education, mixed farming, homesteading regulations, suitable clothing, meals on the train, home making, etc. Sections on Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. These provinces are described in individual detail. Section at rear on individual settlers who have made it big, explaining where they settled, where they were from, how much money they started with, how well they're doing, sometimes with quotations. One example is Hebert Greenfield, who left Winchester, England 30 years earlier and is now Premier of Alberta as well as a successful farmer.
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Publication Info
- Publisher: Minister of Immigration and Colonization
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1925
- Place Published: Ottawa
- ISBN: n/a
Details
- Condition: Good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
32 p. 28 cm. B&w illustrations. Partial colour maps. Stapled paper covers. Chip and tear in bottom of front cover. A little creasing. Crease in top front corner has small tear. Holes in lower spine area. Staples rusting. Slight thumbing to margins, otherwise clean and legible inside.