| Title: | Charles Foy, Belfast to the Editor of the Evening Telegraph |
|---|---|
| ID | 1096 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Foy, Charles/44 |
| Year | 1875 |
| Sender | Foy, Charles |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | emigration agent? |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Belfast, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Belfast? |
| Recipient | Editor of the Evening Telegraph |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | letter regarding emigration to Canada |
| Source | The Belfast Evening Telegraph, Thurs., Feb. 18, 1875. |
| Archive | The Linenhall Library, Belfast |
| Doc. No. | 9909090 |
| Date | 18/02/1875 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 03:09:99. |
| Word Count | 324 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | EMIGRATION TO CANADA REPLY TO ARTICLE IN NEWSLETTER OF THE 12th. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING TELEGRAPH. 11, Claremount Street, February 16. Sir - I think it necessary to explain to the public why I did not reply in the News-Letter to their leader of the 12th inst, on Canadian Emigration. The News-Letter refused to publish, even as advertisements, my replies to editorial articles on Canada in that paper. The man Murphy, whose death from starvation at Niagra is reported in the Canadian papers, was a well-known character in Toronto. He was better known as the "mayor of Stanley Street". The quotations from the Canadian papers refer to "indiscriminate" emigration, which is, no doubt, a great mistake. For hundreds of the right class whom I advise to emigrate, I dissuade hundreds of the shopmen, clerks, book-keepers, and gentlemen of no calling from emigration. Consequently there has not been a single case out of the thousands advised by me to go in which I have heard of want success. Had those emigrants, who are represented as seeking, employment in Montreal, Toronto, and Hamilton been of the right class and done, as my emigrants, to the proportion of 90 per cent, have done - gone to the rural districts to work on farms there would be no complaints. I assert that no farm labourer, no domestic servant, need be one day out of employment in Canada. I am in receipt of advice from the Government of Ontario, saying that if a thousand farm hands go in a steamer to sail on the 25th of this month, immediate employment can be obtained for them, and I am prepared to give them such assistance as will make it almost free emigration. Clerks, shopmen, gentlemen of no occupation, who cannot get work in Canada unless they have friends before them through whose influence they may obtain employment. Emigrants from the East-end of London, or from any other large cities, are no aquisition to any colony, Not so the hardy sons of toil from the rural districts of the North of Ireland. Yours obliged, CHARLES FOY. |
