TABLE 4. Number of oversea immigrants to the Argentine Republic, by age and sex, with or without their families, 1903 to 1908, inclusive.. 198, 199 5. Oversea immigration to Argentina, 1901 to 1908, inclusive, by occu- 6. Immigration to and emigration from the Argentine Republic, 1871 TABLE 1. Immigration to Brazil, 1820 to 1907, inclusive, by nationality... 2. Immigration to Brazil, 1820 to 1907, inclusive, by nationality; per THE IMMIGRATION SITUATION IN CANADA. INTRODUCTORY. Canada affords an interesting example of a country with a definite immigration policy based on local needs and conditions, and an immigration law sufficiently broad and flexible to permit the effective carrying out of that policy. The Canadian policy is based on the purpose of the government to promote the immigration of settlers for the newly opened agricultural regions of the western Provinces and other parts of the Dominion and to discourage the coming to Canada of such classes of immigrants as tend to congregate in towns and cities. The United States, the United Kingdom, and certain northern and western countries of continental Europe are regarded by Canada as the sources most likely to furnish the class of immigrants desired, and in them the government carries on a systematic and usually successful propaganda to promote or direct immigration to the Dominion. No effort is made to promote immigration from southern and eastern European countries, and while immigrants from such countries are not specifically excluded by the Canadian immigration law, they are not sought by Canada nor are they desired unless it is clearly shown that they do not intend to become city dwellers. In earlier years the Dominion shared somewhat in the movement of population from the United Kingdom and northern and western Europe to North America; but until recently the United States was the destination of by far the greater part of such immigration, a condition easily accounted for by the fact that the settlement of the agricultural regions of the West was made practicable at a much earlier date in the United States than in Canada. With the opening up of the great areas of agricultural lands in the western Provinces of the Dominion and the extension of the propaganda referred to, immigration increased until Canada is now one of the great immigrantreceiving countries of the world. During the period July 1, 1900, to March 31, 1909, a total of 1,244,597 immigrants were admitted to the Dominion, while during a closely corresponding period, July 1, 1900, to June 30, 1909, the total immigration to the United States was 7,753,816. Considering the population of the two countries, however, the movement to Canada was relatively much greater, the number of immigrants admitted during the period referred to being equal to 26.1 per cent of the Dominion's population in 1901, while the number entering the United States during the fiscal years 1900 to 1909 equaled 10.2 per cent of the population of the latter country in 1900. The chief sources of Canadian immigration are the United States. and the United Kingdom, the former having furnished 393,908, or 31.6 per cent, and the latter 502,264, or 40.4 per cent of the total number of immigrants admitted to the Dominion during the period referred to. During the same period Canada expended more money in promoting immigration from the United States than from the United Kingdom, the amounts being respectively $1,662,000 and |