Numerous European industrialists have already set up plants in various parts of Canada, manufacturing products formerly imported into Canada employing many Canadians. Nearly two dozen such industries have been started into the Toronto area alone since the start of the war by manufacturers from Great Britain, Europe and the United States, the latter mainly because of wartime regulations which have made it mere beneficial to manufacture in Canada than to export from the United States plants.
Because transportation facilities were laid out for a far larger population than at present. it is vital according. to most industrialists, that Canada after the war retrace her steps on the subject of immigration to the days prior to the first world war.
In the Years 1910-1913 Canada allowed the greatest number of newcomers to settle on farms and in cities. Nearly 1,400,000 persons were allowed into the Dominion in those four years preceding the first world war, according ta the official Canada Year Book. Canada will have a good opportunity to obtain a good class of immigrants after the war, it is generally believed, because so many European people who will have to start all over again as a result of their losses incurred in the war, and will want to start over in a new country.
Such new immigration should not be confined to farms, an industrialist stated, as Canada now grows more than enough to feed herself, cannot export all her agricultural produce. As these people settle in cities and rural towns, they will create new trade, bring more consumers for farm produce, allowing more varied farming to supply their needs. With present facilities Canada can maintain a popilation of 25,000,000 a total which was looked forward to before the outbreak of the first world war.
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