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Advertising in Europe, 1900-1920s



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Germany's ban on foreign government advertising for immigrants explains why this pamphlet included no contact names and addresses. Steamship booking agents had all the necessary information.

This particular pamphlet was published in Scanadinavian languages, too. These pamphlets were probably distributed in both Europe and the United States.





Canada. Work, Wages, Land. The Railway Route to a Free Farm is the title of this 1908 German-language pamphlet. It also appeared in Scandinavian languages.

WANTED
14,000 men to build Railways in Canada.
100,000 men to take, cultivate and own farms in Canada.
Highest wages in Railway work.
160 acres of the best land in the world free.
The industrious poor man's chance....


Would-be immigrants from Germany were advised to contact officials at the Canadian Emigration Offices in London, England or in Canada.

 
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Canadian War Museum poster
 

When the First World War broke out, recent immigrants from Germany and her ally, Austro-Hungary, suddenly became "enemy aliens" in Canada: The Land of Opportunity. Many spent the war years in internment camps.

After 1918, the Canadian government did not advertise for agricultural immigrants in any European country, although French, Belgian, Dutch and Scandinavian workers were welcome if they had good job prospects and some financial resources. Fear of labour radicalism among European immigrants following the Russian Revolution of 1917 - reinforced by the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 - influenced the Liberal government's decision to focus on Britain and the United States as sources of immigrants in the 1920s.


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