1928 - Annual Convention

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said they had a difficult problem to decide the winners. Many recipes did
not have any method included, and the dictionary meaning of a recipe is " a
statement of ingredients and procedure." Several recipes included senna
leaves. As this is not a food and had no food value, these were ruled out.
The first prize recipes in both contests included a vegetable recipe. This
gave a good score for food value.
I have great pleasure in announcing the following ladies as winners:
Three recipes using Canadian products only— 1st, Independence W. I., A l c o m -
dale; 2nd, Mrs. Bucknell, Angus Ridge W. I., Wetaskiwin. Three recipes
suitable for correcting constipation— 1st, Mrs. W. A . Brown, Kitscoty; 2nd,
Mrs. L . H . Embertson, R. R. 2, Wetaskiwin.
I feel there is not sufficient enthusiasm shown by the members to warrant
the giving of prizes for a contest another year. I should like to suggest
that each district donate a prize to the girl standing highest in cooking,
sewing and laundry, and in addition to this, taking into consideration the
g i r l ' s deportment, her activities in the l i t e r a r y society, and i n fact, just an
all- around good g i r l.
REPORT OF T H E STANDING COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION
( Mrs. C. Lynch- Staunton, Convener)
Immigration continues to be one of the most important questions before
the Canadian people today.
As Canada is chiefly an agricultural country, it is chiefly i n agriculture,
to f i l l the wide spaces of agricultural lands, where there is most pressing
need of increased population. It is estimated that the field crops of Canada
during the past year are of the value of $ 1,250,000,000, and when we
recollect that the Canadian export of agricultural products to the United
Kingdom i n the year 1897 amounted to $ 69,500,000, and in 1927 i n wheat and
flour only the value of Canada's exports to the United Kingdom was $ 276,-
500,000, we begin to realize the tremendous strides Canada is making and
the necessity for a vigorous policy of immigration.
The only sane solution of our economic problems lies in building up a
permanent population to the point at which it could reasonably support the
present systems of government, federal and provincial, the facilities for
transportation, and could provide such variety and extent of vocational
interest, opportunity and development as would enable us to assimilate an
increase of population through immigration and to retain our own natural
increase. The basic method of accomplishing this is by increased land settle­ment
under conditions that w i l l make for successful and prosperous settle­ment-
Immigration wfork is being carried on in Canada by the Federal Depart­ment
of Immigration largely through the Land Settlement Branch and the
provincial governments, assisted by the colonization departments of the rail­ways
and the various immigration societies, operating under the auspices of
religious bodies.
By the Empire Settlement Scheme, passage assistance is granted to those
coming to Canada to earn their livelihood on the land and to household
workers, an ocean rate of £ 2 is provided, the persons obtaining these p r i v i ­leges
by a system of nomination, i. e.:
( a) Direct nomination, by which any British subject in Canada may
nominate by name any British subject resident in the United
Kingdom.
( b) Descriptive nomination, by which any B r i t i s h subject in Canada may
nominate by description, i. e., by giving a description of the help
required.
( c) " B u l k nomination, by which single f a rm laborers are selected by our
overseas agents and sent forward for placement by land settlement
officials.
Under this system during 1927, 5,154 persons have come to Canada.
D u r i n g 1927 there have come from the United States into Canada 21,025
persons, bringing effects with them to the value of $ 14,002,375. Since
1924, 56,957 Canadians, who had left Canada with the intention of making
their permanent homes in the United States, have returned to Canada.