EMIGRANTS TO CANADA
Sifi,—Your contributor, Mr. M. D. Butler, in the Spectator of April 1st, referring to conditions in Ontario, wrote: " In no sphere was there, or indeed, I believe, will there be, any shortage of jobs, and the higher salaries more than offset the greater cost of living." That these condi- tions do not prevail throughout the Dominion is indicated by the following comments from an English friend who has been in British Columbia for the past twelve months and writes from Victoria : " Unemployment is very bad out here, and my first stop in London will be at Canada House to tell them it is utterly useless to encourage emigrants to come out here unless they have a good job to come to. I have never come across so many disappointed workless men of all classes in my life ; it is most pathetic, and living, food, etc., are terribly expensive. I was talking to a man who was manager of a shop in England, with five men and eighty girls under him, who threw it up to come here. The wife, a most delightful woman, is a servant here and he is in a fruit shop ; he said that when he was sweeping up a lot of refuse there he couldn't help laughing and wondering what his former staff would have said if they could have seen him or. pictured his wife, himself and little boy living in a two-room basement."—Yours faithfully, , DUDLEY H. ILLINGWORTH.
Hanlith Hall, Kirkby Malham, Skipton, Yorks.
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