Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1911 — CANADIANS CALL FOR GIRLS [ARTICLE]

CANADIANS CALL FOR GIRLS

Hundreds Storm Agent Who le In London Seeking Brides for Young Farmers of Northwest. London. —Thomas Howell, the Canadian immigration agent who 1b conducting a search throughout England for brides for the stalwart farmers of Canada, has given up searching, and is really trying to lose himself, as brides-to-be in a veritable army, not content with bombarding him with tons of letters, are here by the hundreds seeking personal interviews. There are touches of humor in some of the letters received by Mr. Howell, who has been overwhelmed with invitations to teas and other functions dear to the feminine heart One of the letters received is from a young woman in a London workhouse, , who, with unconscious irony, writes: , "Please come and see me. I can make you quite at home.” Women, however, are not half so anxious as the men of England to go to Canada. It is estimated that fully 160,000 English mechanics, farmers and laborers will leave for the Dominion during the coming season. -By direct route from London nearly 17,000 passengers will start for Canada in March, and in addition, during that month about three thousand immigrants will reach that land of promise via the United States. The phenomenal immigration is attributed to the general prosperity and immense advance in railway construction in Canada. Fully 30 per cent of these Immigrants are skilled workmen,. and nearly all of them have means upon which to subsist for months after their arrival. There is no doubt that immigration is being stimulated by English imperialist organizations which expect through these sturdy Britons to neutralize the effects of the great rush from the United States to "Our Lady of the Bnows.” ,