ABSTRACT
The artificially stimulated emigration to Canada came quite late and reached its culminating point only after 1900. The Scandinavian emigration question is a problem by itself which differs from the problems of the other European countries and requires consideration from special points of view. Hitherto the stream of emigration has been almost exclusively to the U.S.A., but on account of the American restriction laws the permitted annual total of emigrants to the United States is at present limited to 9,500 in round numbers for persons of Swedish birth. Canada would seem therefore, for Scandinavians, not to be a satisfactory substitute as an emigration country for the lost possibilities of the U.S.A., and the emigrant has only a prospect of success if he is willing to submit to the hard and exacting conditions of a settler's life.
