Oral Answers to Questions — Naval and Military Pensions and Grants. – in the House of Commons at on 14 February 1924.
Mr John Wardlaw-Milne
, Kidderminster
asked the Under- Secretary of State for the Home Department; if he can state the number of emigrants from the British Isles to Canada last year, and the approximate number of those who were crofters from Scotland?
Mr Albert Alexander
, Sheffield, Hillsborough
I have been asked to reply. The number of persons of British nationality recorded as emigrants from the United Kingdom to Canada during the year 1923 was 88,290. It is not possible to state the number of crofters included in this total. With regard, however, to 576 persons who left the Western Hebrides for Canada, there is evidence from the passenger lists that they were crofters and their families. Apart from these there are only a few scattered entries in the passenger lists which appear to relate to crofters.
Mr Fredric Wise
, Ilford
How many of these emigrants received financial assistance?
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
