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ft*ae Carious und Interesting Facts About the Alberta Work,A correspondent ot tho Winnipeg Tribane writing from Calgary has the following to say as to desireability of tho party of foreigners from Chicago who recently visited Macleod with the intention of settling) and then moved north, much to the satisfaction of the settlers around here! Vo the Editor of the Tribune.Sir,—As yon have commenced to critioizo tho work of the immigration department and Minister Daly, perhaps the public would like to know how the department deals with foreigners as compared with Canadians, as seen In this part of the North-west. About ten weeks ago, I am told, a delegation of German or Russian Jews from Chicago came here in charge of Minister Daly's brother, who was said to be a railway ticket agent in Chicago. Those people said they represented about four hundred families in Chicago who wished to immigrate to the North-west Territories, preferring Alberta. Thoy wsre going to settle on tho communistic principle,having united their purses and were said to have a good deal of capital behind them. They gave out .that they wished a warm country to live in and that they preferred lands that needed irrigation.Accordingly the delegateswere sent down to the Macleod district and came back delighted with the oountry. It was given out they would settle between Macleod and Willow Oteek at once in a large body, and that they would also require a big slice of Senator Cochrane’s ranch furthersouth. The next news received here was tht Oapt. Holmes, inspeotor of Dominion immigration agencies in the United States, had interviewed Minister Daly at Ottawa, and urged him to pay the expenses of transferring a large body of these foreigners from Chicago to Alberta, and the telegram (which must have been authorised by the immigration department) added that Mr. Daly had consented to an experiment frith fifty families,' Next in the order of events comes the appearance of these communists, or socialists, or whatever they are, in Calgary—not fifty families,” but twenty-one persons all told. These capitalists'Vere ho*tod in the immigration shed for several days doing nothing. They were brought here from Chicago free of charge. The party left for Macleod in the morning, and returned the same day to Calgary. Without leaving the oar« they decided not to settle in the Macleod dutriot, it was ,loo dry. They want jtata ths imalgTStloa shad agaia. This was
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Fort MacLeod Gazette
Fort MacLeod, Alberta, CA
Fri, Jul 07, 1893
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