[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] CPR

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    Canadian Pacific agents operated in many overseas locations. Immigrants were often sold a package that included passage on a CP ship, travel on a CP train, and land sold by the CP railway. Land was priced at $2.50 an acre and up.  CPR land could also be purchased by established settlers if desired and often was well into the 1920s.
    Records of CPR land purchases are held by the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta and are searchable at http://www.glenbow.org/collections/archives/ 

   John Marsch
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  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.  



  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!



  Rita





  On Jan 15, 2010, Nelson Itterman <colnels at telus.net> wrote: 

    Hello Carol:
    I really have no knowledge of how it was done. I do know that my Uncle
    Jonathon made arrangements and paid our passage from Zhitomir to Winnipeg
    sometime in 1926 with the Canadian Pacific Railway. They may have
    information in their archives, if they could be found.
    Nelson

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    Nelson: Is there a record of the arrangements made by CPR for immigration?
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