Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1912 — WESTERN CANADA'S PROSPERITY [ARTICLE]

WESTERN CANADA'S PROSPERITY

NOT A BOOM, BUT DUE TO NATURAL DEVELOPMENT. One of the largest banks in Holland has been doing a big business In Western Canada, and Mr. W. Westerman, the President, on a recent visit into the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, expressed himself aB being much impressed with present conditions and prospects, and was convinced that the great prosperity of the Dominion was not a boom, but merely the outcome of natural developments. . : Not only has money been Invested largely in Western Canada by the Holland Banks, but by those of Germany, France, as well as Great Britain. Not only are these countries contributing money, but they are also contributing people, hard headed, industrious farmers, who are helping to produce the two hundred million bushels of wheat and the three hundred million bushels of the other small grains that the Provinces of the West have harveaj,e<f this season. During the past fiscal year there came into Canada from the United States 133,710; from Austria Hungary 21,651; from Belgium 1,601; Holland 1,077; France 2,094; Germany 4,664; Sweden 2,394; Norway 1,692; and from all countries the Immigration to Canada in that year was 354,237. From the United States and foreign countries the figures will be Increased during the present year. Most of these people have gone to the farms, and 16.1 s no far look to the time when the prophecy will be fulfilled of half a.billion bushel crop of wheat in Western Canada. Advertisement j . .. ——-