| In the last decade of the nineteenth century, the government encouraged the settlement of the West with a large-scale campaign directed mainly at the British Isles, Northern Europe and the United States. When cheap fertile land became scarce in the United States in the 1880s, many Dutch and Dutch-Americans sought homes in Canada's"Last Best West." Winnipeg probably had the largest Dutch community in Canada before the First World War. Between 1890 and 1930, about 25,000 Dutch immigrants entered Canada. Reproduction
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