Canada -- Economic conditions; Canada -- Emigration and immigration
Latterly, the Brotherhood Movement of England and Wales has undertaken
the work of assisting emigrants belonging to Brotherhoods and Pleasant
Sunday Afternoon Societies by giving them reliable information and by
arranging for them to be assisted by representatives of the Brotherhood
Movement in Canada when they land. It is a very great advantage for a
man going out to find somebody willing to take a disinterested and
friendly interest in him on his arrival. He naturally feels lonely on
landing in a new country, and if he arrives with only a pound or two in
his pocket and no situation awaiting him and does not immediately get
employment he is distressed and humiliated. Mr. R. J. Harry, hon.
secretary of the International Committee of the Brotherhood Movement, is
willing to give such advice as he has at his disposal to members of
Brotherhood, P.S.A. and Sisterhood Societies who communicate with him at
the National Brotherhood Offices, 37, Norfolk Street, Strand, London,
W.C. The Brotherhood Movement has arranged with influential men in the
principal Canadian cities to act as counsellors of Brotherhood men
accredited to them, assisting them to obtain situations and lodgings and
introducing them to Churches and Brotherhoods where such exist. I found
that in Winnipeg, Vancouver, and other Canadian cities the Brotherhoods
have devised the happy institution of Sunday afternoon tea to which the
new-comers are invited. I was present at two such teas, and heard from
recently arrived immigrants how their friendly reception at this
pleasant function and the fraternisation with them of Canadians had made
them feel at once at home.
Let it be impressed on all emigrants to Canada that the sooner they get
into friendly touch with Churches, Brotherhoods, the splendid
Y.M.C.A.’s, and other institutions of the Dominion, the better it will
be for them. Canada is no more than any other country a paradise without
a serpent. There are temptations, moral dangers, land sharks on the look
out for easy victims. The members of the Canadian Churches, Brotherhoods
and Y.M.C.A.’s are willing and eager to safeguard immigrants from the
moment of their arrival from all such dangers.
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