ABSTRACT
The volume of British emigration which has proceeded to North America, may be roughly estimated as amounting to slightly more than twelve million souls. The preference which British emigrants have so clearly displayed during a period of more than eighty years for the United States is due, first, to a desire, commonly shown by those who quit their native country, for settling where their relations and friends have settles before them; and, second, to the more advanced economic conditions which have existed within the Republic. The wheat–growing possibilities of the Dominion of Canada have gradually become known, with the result that ceaseless streams of British emigrants have poured into this colony. The reasons describes, it is obvious then that the emigrant who understood American conditions and who had a free hand in selecting own destination, usually elected to settle in the United States. The actual destination of immigrants furnishes another interesting subject for consideration.
