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What The West Is Really Like
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In the 1870s and 1880s, the Allan Line of Steamers spent more money on advertising for immigrants to Canada than did the new federal government, it was said. But steamships could only bring immigrants so far.
A railway was urgently needed to take passengers west to settle the vast area of the North-West Territories recently acquired by the Canadian government. The Americans had a national railway network in place by 1869.
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The 1886 edition of What Settlers Say made no reference to the 1885 Metis uprising, or to Canadian Indians. But in a parallel publication, What Women Say Of The Canadian North-West, settlers' wives were asked "Do you experience any fear of the Indians?" According to the Canadian Pacific Railway, a majority said "no", "none", "never did" etc.
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The government offered a cash bonus of $10 to every farmer who settled on a free 160-acre homestead within six months of leaving Britain. Additional bonuses of $5. were offered to wives and family members over the age of 12, if they accompanied the homesteader. (Settlers had to farm and live on a homestead for six months a year over three years before they could claim title to their land).