emigration agent

Obs.

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

Quotations

1884

The best kind of emigration agent is the successful settler in the new districts. (Thomas White. H. of C. Debates, Mar. 4, 1884.)