Canada: ONTARIO: Recruiting Tour

George Alexander Drew, Premier of Ontario, suddenly turned up (via Trans-Canada Air Lines) in London. He bustled around to see Cabinet members, assorted lords and M.P.s. At the Savoy Hotel, he gave a party for about 400 of the U.K.'s biggest bigwigs. He spent a good deal of time at Ontario House.

Why was he there? He was shopping for manpower. Ontario farms, said he, can absorb 10,000 new workers. The forest industry needs 40,000, mining several thousand more. He wants to get Ontario's workers from the British Isles for the same reason that French Canada always...

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