Two racial stocks--British and French--make up eighty-three per cent. of the population. With our “melting pot” example next door, Canada is determined to preserve her race character, and she controls immigration accordingly. She tries to get settlers chiefly from the British Isles, the northern countries of Europe, and the United States. Labourers from Japan and China are no longer admitted, though for many years the head taxes of five hundred dollars on each Chinese who came in paid most of the expenses of promoting general immigration. We might profit by the way Canada regulates her immigration. In the first place, the government has wide discretion as to what kinds of people shall come in. It can partially close the gates during dull times, and open them wide when times are good. Immigrants are admitted only as the authorities are satisfied that they are fitted to work on the land and that they can become self-supporting. Government agents in foreign countries start immigrants on their way, and others meet them on their arrival. Canada does not allow hordes of foreigners to be thrown into her cities. She guides them out to the land, and helps them to establish themselves there. She has no fixed quota law such as ours, but she is vastly more particular as to whom she admits. Besides the government, both the Canadian National and the Canadian Pacific railways maintain immigration offices abroad. The C. P. R. at one time had practically all Europe covered with agents engaged in drumming for immigrants, whom it brought across the Atlantic in its own steamers, carried through Canada on its own trains, and located on farms along its own lines. When that road was built the company received a grant of twenty-five million acres of government land. Four fifths of these have been sold, but the company still has five million acres for settlers. At the present time, it is selling land for a cash payment of only one seventh of the purchase price, the balance to be paid within thirty-five years. [Illustration: Canada feels acutely the need of more population. She not only welcomes settlers from the British Isles, northern Europe, and the United States, but gives them every assistance in establishing themselves on the land.] [Illustration: It is still possible for the immigrant to take up good land in Canada with the reasonable hope of making it into such a ranch as this. Many of the richest farmers of to-day came from the United States.]