19 JANUARY 1924, Page 9

Canada expects to have the best immigration year she has

experienced since the War. Every week sees the arrival at Halifax of emigrant ships with large human cargoes passing through on their way to Ontario and the Far West. The grant of the preference twenty per cent. in favour of immigrants coming direct from Great Britain is expected to have a marked effect, and the Times Toronto correspondent estimates that 200,000 British people will enter the Dominion this year.