DCHP-3

emigrant agent

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a government official appointed to assist immigrants to find land or employment on their arrival in Canada.

See: immigration agent(def. 1)

Quotations

1837
The minute in Council of the 20th July . . . places a sum of money at the disposal of the Emigrant Agent to enable him to open a road through some of the townships in the rear of Kingston.
1934
A. C. Buchanan, chief emigrant agent, estimated that of the total number of immigrants arriving at Quebec and Montreal in 1856, forty-one per cent. went to the United States.