[WED]Immigration patterns

[Art & Marjorie Keates]

Thank you for this, Stan.
My grandfather, Samuel Latcham, emigrated to Manitoba, Canada in 1890.
He said there were posters and advertisments extolling the wonderful life 
to be had farming in Manitoba
so he left England for Manitoba.

Generations later his great-grandaughter, my daughter, lives in England. 
But what is interesting, at least to me,
is that in 1992 she saw an advertisment in the local paper in Devon:

"A Realistic Alternative to Farming in the UK
    MANITOBA, CANADA
Jack Nesbit, Immigrant, Farmer, and Realator will be holding an open meeting at
the following venue" etc etc "Hear about the service we offer and how you 
can sample life on a Manitoba farm."

Marjorie
Ontario, Canada
At 04:47 AM 20/12/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>This may not be relevant but an advertisement in  the 'Sunderland Weekly Echo
>and Times' of Friday 22nd. June 1883 gives an  example of what was available.
>Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers to the United  States and Canada from
>Liverpool.
>Hanoverian, for Quebec, June  18.
>Hibernian, for Halifax and Baltimore, June 19.
>Peruvian, for Quebec,  June 21.
>Nestorian, for Quebec, June 21.
>Austrian, for Boston, June  28.
>Sarmatian, for Quebec, June 28.
>Caspian, for Halifax and Baltimore,  July 3.
>Parisian, for Quebec, July 5.
>OCEAN RATES.
>Saloon, 12 to 21  Guineas; Intermediate 8 pounds; Steerage 4 pounds 4
>
>shillings.
>Through  tickets at special rates to Chicago, and to all points in the
>Western
>States  and Canada.
>Note; The best, quickest, and cheapest route for Manitoba and the  Great
>North West is by the Mail Steamers of this Line.
>Assisted Passages to  Halifax are granted to General Labourers, Mechanics
>&c., for 4 pounds, and  to Agriculturists, Agricultural Labourers, and Female
>Domestic Servants for 3  pounds; and Through to the Inland Points in 
>Canada at
>Special  Rates.
>Passengers landing at Quebec and going inland are accompanied on the  Railway
>by the Company's special conductor.
>Full particulars on application  to
>ALLAN BROTHERS & Co.,
>James Street, Liverpool.
>
>
>Regards Stan Mapstone
>www.mapstone.org