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    1. From THE TIMES, Friday, April 15, 1892 / EMIGRANTS FOR CANADA
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    3. Posted with permission of the transcriber, Barb. Baker. Geo. THE TIMES, Friday, April 15, 1892 EMIGRANTS FOR CANADA. - Under the auspices of the Self-Help Emigration Society , some 3,666 emigrants have been provided with homes abroad since the formation of the society in 1884, and to-night another batch of emigrants will leave Euston for Canada. The annual report of the society, which has just been published for the past year, bears among other names on the committee, the EARL OF ABERDEEN, the EARL OF RODEN, LORD MONSWELL, LORD DORCHESTER, the HON. JOHN WALDEGRAVE, SIR R. W. BEAUCHAMP, SIR WILLIAM GURDON, K.C.M.G., and MR. H. L. W. LAWSON, M.P. The emigrants assisted in 1891` were 343, and their destinations were as folows: -- Ninety-two to Montreal, 39 to Ottawa, 37 to Toronto, 20 to Sydney and other places in New South Wales, 17 to Watford, 15 to Hamilton, 14 to Melbourne, 11 to Sherbrooke (Quebec), nine to Lethbridge (Alberta), nine to Brandon (Manitoba), eight to St. Catherine's, seven to Forrest, five to Gravenhurst, four to Carberry (Manitoba), three to Brampton, three to New York, the remainder being distributed over the following places: Boston, Calgary (Alberta), Green Bay (Wisconsin), Halifax (Nova Scotia), Kansas, Launceston, (Tasmania), London (Ontario), Los Angeles (U.S.A.), Niagara, Owen Sound, Philiadelphia, St. Thomas, Vancouver. The total income of the society last year was £2,236 18s. voluntarily contributed. To correspondents in Canada, the committee are under a deep debt of gratitude for the help rendered in placing the emigrants in employment. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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