HOMESTEADING IN CANADA

OK, gang. Here it is. In answer to many requests for information about immigrating to and homesteading in Canada, we've put together the following twenty-one pages.

Since our space is small and Canada is large, this report is necessarily a very random sampling. For more detailed and specific information, contact the appropriate office or offices listed on paged 30-31.

By the way, we're becoming convinced that abandones back-tax land in Canada is probably more attractive than raw unsettled Crown Land. There's less red tape involved, actually less out-of-pocket expense in some cases and always the chance of picking up an old house, farm buildings, a well and – maybe – easy access to power lines in the bargain. Check it out and see what you think.

Two good agents for back-tax land are listed on page 27 in Paul Conroy's article.

The first thing you've got to realize is that the immigrant business is pretty good in Canada these days. In addition to a steady flow of new faces from England, other parts of the old British Commonwealth and Europe, 22,785 independent souls from the United States (double the number of 1961) emigrated to the Maple Leaf Country in 1969 . . . and the first quarter of 1970 ran about one-third ahead of the corresponding quarter last year.

Now these are not all young and impecunious draft dodgers either. One quarter of the folks making the big move in 1969 were doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers (especially teachers!) and other professional people. And the U.S. immigrants (in our fine old tradition of "biggest and bestest"), took more money into Canada with them than all other immigrants combined.

What this means, of course, is that the competition is getting heavier. Or – to put it another way – with greater numbers of better qualified applicants wanting in, the Canadian Immigrations Offices can afford to become progressively more selective . . . and they have. I guess a third way of describing the situation is to say that you now need money and an established career to buy a new start in life.

We're advised that, until about three years ago, a U.S. citizen applying for Canadian landed immigrant status was viewed as just that: A U.S. citizen. Acceptance was almost automatic. Nowadays,'however, DISTINCTIONS are made and each applicant from the U.S. is graded on a super-secret point system.