British Columbia is Canada's California. Like California, this westernmost province welcomes visitors with full purses, turns a cold shoulder on the many jobless who immigrate in hope of work and of enjoying a comparatively mild climate. Unlike the U. S., Canada has no unified federal system of unemployment relief. Although from the Dominion capital at Ottawa come periodic donations, relief administration is left largely to the provinces and localities.
Last winter British Columbia maintained with federal funds a few "concentration camps" for unemployed. This spring the camps were closed, the men told...
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