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Advertising in Europe, 1900-1920s


William Lyon Mackenzie King was Prime Minister of Canada from 1921-30, except for three months in 1926 when Conservative Arthur Meighen was Prime Minister. King came under strong pressure from the two national railways to admit central and eastern European immigrants. Both the Canadian Pacific Railway and the newly-formed Canadian National Railways had large tracts of land for sale on the prairies.

Mackenzie King circumvented his own government's policy by authorising the two railways to recruit settlers from Europe, under the Railway Agreement of 1925. But there were two conditions: people selected had to pass medical examinations by Canadian doctors before leaving Europe; and the railway companies had to take financial responsibility for unsuccessful settlers.

  
National Archives of Canada
C-389





Canadian Pacific Archives,
Image no. A 8074 		 

The Canadian Pacific passenger ticket agency in Veliki Becereck, Yugoslavia, ca.1925.

 

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