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Photograph of booth exhibiting Canada's produce, 1913

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Canadian government exhibit, Oklahoma State Fair, September 1913.
Canada wanted farmers from the American mid-West because they had the capital to turn prairie into bountiful farmland. This display at the Oklahoma State Fair in 1913 was just one of several hundred that the Canadian government mounted in any given year for the distribution of immigration atlases and other literature.
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