<p>My grandfather saved a brochure from CPR. It advertised the open west country for settlement and cheap land. It was from about that era and written in Polish. CPR had agents in Russia looking for immigration. He had other letters where the CPR worked with immigration to try to get the rest of his family over. This was big business for them, to keep their ships and railroad busy. </p><p> </p><p>When the rest of my family members came, granddad paid in advance to CPR. After my Dad came, he got a small refund for overpayment....he still kept the receipt!</p><p> </p><p>Rita</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On Jan 15, 2010, <strong>Nelson Itterman</strong> <colnels@telus.net> wrote: </p><div class="replyBody"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #267fdb; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 1.8ex; padding-left: 1ex">Hello Carol:<br />I really have no knowledge of how it was done. I do know that my Uncle<br />Jonathon made arrangements and paid our passage from Zhitomir to Winnipeg<br />sometime in 1926 with the Canadian Pacific Railway. They may have<br />information in their archives, if they could be found.<br />Nelson<br /><br />-----Original Message-----<br />From: <a href="mailto:ger-poland-volhynia-bounces@eclipse.sggee.org" target="_blank" class="parsedEmail">ger-poland-volhynia-bounces@eclipse.sggee.org</a><br />[mailto:<a href="mailto:ger-poland-volhynia-bounces@eclipse.sggee.org" target="_blank" class="parsedEmail">ger-poland-volhynia-bounces@eclipse.sggee.org</a>] On Behalf Of Carol<br />Duff<br />Sent: January-15-10 12:40 PM<br />To: <a href="mailto:ger-poland-volhynia@eclipse.sggee.org" target="_blank" class="parsedEmail">ger-poland-volhynia@eclipse.sggee.org</a><br />Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] CPR<br /><br />Nelson: Is there a record of the arrangements made by CPR for immigration?<br />> <br /><br />_______________________________________________<br />Ger-Poland-Volhynia Mailing List hosted by<br />Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe <a href="http://www.sggee.org" target="_blank" class="parsedLink">http://www.sggee.org</a><br />Mailing list info at <a href="http://www.sggee.org/listserv" target="_blank" class="parsedLink">http://www.sggee.org/listserv</a><br /><br /><br /><br />_______________________________________________<br />Ger-Poland-Volhynia Mailing List hosted by<br />Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe <a href="http://www.sggee.org" target="_blank" class="parsedLink">http://www.sggee.org</a><br />Mailing list info at <a href="http://www.sggee.org/listserv" target="_blank" class="parsedLink">http://www.sggee.org/listserv</a><br /></blockquote></div>