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 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CANADIAN MIGRATION

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In proportion to her population, Nova Scotia has sent more people to the United States than any other province in the Dominion. They go literally in droves for a portion of the year, and naturally enough stay in the vicinity of Boston, on account of the direct communication between that port and points in Nova Scotia. To the ordinary observer it seems as if all the workers in

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Boston must have come from the Land of Evangeline. An experience of my own serves to illustrate this. One time, in traveling from the West, I was put by a Nova Scotia train- conductor into the care of a Nova Scotia cab-driver, who took me to a hotel where I was met by a Nova Scotia clerk and served by i Nova Scotia maid. Later the Nova Scotia proprietor put me in a car, where a Nova Scotia conductor took my fare and directed me to the dock, where all were Nova Scotians, and thence