Most Jews arriving in
Canada from eastern Europe disembarked at Montreal and boarded the transcontinental
railway destined for the prairies. This view depicts immigrants arriving in
Montreal, ca. 1905. [C.J. Humber]
Prospective prairie settlers
were often subjected to a barrage of advertisements, both serious and humorous.
This poster, ca. 1900, tends to appeal to everyone's high hopes easy money!
[Morris Norman]
