Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1912 — MANY NOBLES ARE COMING [ARTICLE]

MANY NOBLES ARE COMING

“Immigrants de Luxe" Will Enter Canada in Spring Beefeing the “Blmple Life." London.—Canada is now waiting an "emigration de luxe,” which Is to take place this year. Several members of the British peerage are going to take up farming in Canada ip the spring, and a large number of peers will make their annual tour of inspection of their Canadian estates. * The explanation of the titled exodus to Canada is due in part to modern legislation and in part to the fact that Canada affords freedom and natural life unobtainable in England, It is said. J Inquiry resulted in a long list of what are known as “gilt-edge settlers” and “emigrants de luxe” being discovered. “There are enough titled persons living in Canada, or Interested in the country, to open a bouse of peers of their own," said a leading railway official, “and, with the duke of Connaught as governor general, we have all the material to go ahead and start a colonial kingdom. - - f -r“The duke and Duchess of Sutherland will take up thefr residence for the coming autumn in their bungalow at Brocks, Alberta. It Is a cozy little weather-board house In the middle of their prairie holdings. “Earl Grey keeps a bunting lodge in the Columbia Valley. B. C., and Lord Aberdeen owns one of the finest and most profitable fruit farms on the Pacific slope, the Coldstream estate. .... ' X, “Lord Clan william is a huge land-

holder, and, with Hon. Edward Cole, Is interested in the Saskatchewan Investment and Trust company, which owns the leading hotel at Saskatchewan. v “Lord Hinli- is the landlord of a vast area of prairie and British Columbia land and Lord DeSborough is interested In the tlmber and hunt :r trade. “Lord Sholto Douglas is, or was, until recently, fruit farming in' British Columbia, and the earl of Stanhope frequently visits the Dominion.”