Immigration
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May 16, 1860
Dear Benjamin,
I know it has been 10 long years since I left Edinburgh, Scotland, but I have never forgotten you my dear friend. Life in the new country has been hard but very satisfying. My family and I settled west in an area called the Prairies. This area is so vast compared to Scotland. You cannot imagine the vastness of the land; rich farmland sparsely populated by Aboriginal peoples called Metis.
Benjamin, we are very glad and extremely lucky to have taken the opportunity to move to the British Colony of North America. I think you know that the hardships, famine, lack of work in the old country forced us to leave. The land we were promised in pamphlets and posters was given to us by the government of this new colony. As I told you before I settled in "the wondrous west" the land of opportunity, and thanks to the colony's immigration policy of Clifford Sifton, minister of the interior, for the first time in my life I became a landowner to a farmer.
In Edinburgh, the lord owns the land and we as laborers worked for him, giving our crops and toil to him, and for what?..