The Archive · 1916

SOLDIER SETTLEMENTS

The interest attaching to the ews that the Canadian-Pacific Hailway Company 18 preparing 1,000 farms in western Canada for dis-far deeper than men to whom their country owes a deep debt of gratitude. Among the many changes that war will have wrought, not the Toast will be the change in the popular attitude towards emi-ion. Apart from the overcrowding of the Isbour market after the war, and the difficulty of displacing girls from many occupations once held by men, it will be impossible for men to return to the narrow environment in which they were once contented. They may try to do so for a time, but the wider conceptions which military service in all parts of the world will have wakened in them are bound to make them restless under old conditions and their eyes will turn to the Dominions. With this, the self-reliance born of life in the battlefield should make them ideal colonists, and there is no want of room for them in the broad lands of Britain over seas. In this as in other ways Germany will find that her effort to destroy the British Empire has but ended in building it on a broader surer basis.

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