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"Immigration," Annual Report of the Minister of the Province of Canada for the Year 1865, pages 10-15.
It was clear by the mid-1860s that a large majority of immigrants arriving at Québec were en route to destinations in the United States. This issue, along with the type of immigrant arriving in Canada (often indigent and unskilled), were of major concern to immigration officials. Alexander C. Buchanan, government agent at Québec, argued that prospective immigrants should be offered free land to remain in Canada. The theme of attracting and keeping the right immigrants would echo throughout Canadian immigration history after Confederation.

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