For, unless
we can induce the right sort of British women to emigrate we shall
not have the Colonies peopled with our own race or speaking our own
mother tongue.
Canada wants unmarried women, her cry is for our marriageable
daughters, and each one would find her vocation out there.
Canadian men are one of the finest types of manhood possible, but
they are too hard working to be able to return here in search of a
wife. How gladly they would welcome the possibility of sharing
their homes with a sister or a wife can only be guessed by those
who have been there.
I am so greatly impressed with the advisability of encouraging
English women to go out there that I strongly urge every suitable,
healthy, and useful woman between the age of twenty-five and
thirty-five to depart (if she has nothing to prevent her), and,
through the British Emigration Society, Imperial Institute, I shall
hope to do all that I can to assist them financially.
I am, sir,
Yours faithfully,
SOPHIE K. BEVAN.
(_Times_, Dec. 24, 1909.)
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