1930 - Annual Convention Report

              45 A L B E R T A W O M E N ' S I N S T I T U T ES
( e) Removal of matter causing disagreeable odors.
2 Disposal of waste on the farm— solid and liquid.
3 Control and extermination of household pests, ex.: flies, cockroaches,
vermin, bed bugs. These sometimes serve to transmit disease and their pres­ence
is' an indication of some unsanitary condition.
I trust that members will continue to help one another in the discussion
of these topics.
Yours sincerely,
C A T H E R I N E GOSSIP, Convener.
REPORT OF STANDING COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION
Mrs. C. Lynch- Staunton, Lundbreck, Convener.
Immigration to Canada during the last year amounted to 185,015, an in­crease
of 9 per cent over the previous year. British immigration showed an
increase of 47 per cent. From the United States there was an advance of 19
per cent. From Northern Europe an increase of 13 per cent, while there was
a decrease of 33 per cent of immigrants coming from other countries.
Of the 8449 men who came to Canada under the B r i t i s h Harvesters Move­ment,
2000 have remained in Canada.
While 64,358 Canadians have gone to the United States, 30,560 who were
l i v i n g in that country have returned to their native land.
D u r i n g the last winter, unemployment reached such serious proportions^
due in a large measure to the collapse of the world's markets and to the great
tie- up in wheat, that the government in Alberta at least, decided to suspend
immigration operations, and at present no assisted immigration is being con­ducted.
Only those who can pay their own way are coming, though reduced
fares are still offered. No B r i t i s h boys will be brought for training in the
A g r i c u l t u r a l Schools of A l b e r t a during the present year.
The responsibility and control of selection of immigrants rests solely and
exclusively with the Government of Canada, and posts are maintained for
medical examination by Canadian doctors before immigrants take passage
for Canada. Twenty- one Canadian doctors are employed i n the B r i t i s h Isles
and seven Canadian doctors at European ports of embarkation.
For Europeans desiring to bring their people to Canada, the degrees of
relationship must be father or mother, husband or wife, son or daughter,
brother or sister.
The work of the Immigration Committees of the A l b e r t a Women's Insti­tutes
has been chiefly in welcoming our newcomers and helping them to be
successful in their new homes. Almost every Institute has its V i s i t i n g Com­mittee
and most of them have helped in some way, either by tendering a
welcome, by calling on them, and in some cases preparing their homes for
their arrival by l i g h t i n g fires and having a meal ready; by the exchange of
recipes, or books, or magazines; by showers of useful and timely gifts; by
encouraging them to bring their babies to Baby Clinics and i n v i t i n g them to
Institute meetings and Demonstration Courses.
Many Institutes have sent letters to the Links of Empire and I have
received enthusiastic reports of the mutual enjoyment these L i n k s within our
wide- flung Empire have brought.
Blackfalds Institute reports an exchange of letters with an Institute in
England and with a Mrs. O'Donnell of Australia.