ABSTRACT
The information available concerning the reception of immigrants in Canada and the United States prior to the year is of a very meagre character. In many instances, the immigrants proceeded in large parties and went to settlements which had already prepared for the reception. The annual outflow of immigrants to Canada and the United States grew considerably, with the consequence that work was harder to find, and many cases of acute suffering were reports. The epidemic clearly shows that quarantine and hospital quarters for immigrants were a necessity. Hospitals for the reception of immigrants have also been provided in the United States. The State, the Bureau tells in its leaflets, wants to know what the difficulties and problems of its law-abiding immigrants are, why they fail and also why they succeed, and to make them, helpful to the next stranger that arrives. In many ways it is apparent that Canada’s great need is to make farmers of its immigrants.
