20 PLATEAU AND VALLEY LANDS

To avoid the risk of
loss the immigrant from
Great Britain should pay
the money not wanted
on the passage to the
Canadian Express Com-
pany’s office in London,
Liverpool or Glasgow,
and get a money order
payable at any point in
British Columbia; or he
may pay his money to
any bank in London hay-
ing an agency in British
Columbia. This sugges-
tion applies with equal
force to persons coming
from Eastern Canada or
the United States.

United States cur-
rency is taken at par in
business circles.

The Provincial Goy-
ernment Agent at point
of arrival will furnish
information as to lands
open for settlement,
farms for sale, rates of
wages, etc.

Settlers’
Freight Rates

Low rates for car-
loads of Settlers’ Effects
apply from Eastern Can-
ada and many United
States points to Winnipeg
and West.

The following is a
summary of the Customs
The Famous Skeena River Sugar Pea, Ten Feet in Height. and Freight regulations:

Customs Regulations

Item 705 of the Customs Tariff (1907), for free entry of Settlers’ Effects reads as
follows:

705. SETTLERS’ Errects, viz.:—Wearing apparel, books, usual and reasonable
household furniture, and other household effects, instruments and tools of trade, occu-
pation or employment; guns, musical instruments, domestic sewing machines, type-
writers, bicycles, cars, wagons and other highway vehicles, agricultural implements
and live stock for the farm, not to include live stock or articles for sale, or for use as
a contractor’s outfit, not vehicles or implements moved by mechanical power, nor
machinery for use in any manufacturing establishment; all the foregoing, if actually
owned abroad by the settler for at least six months before his removal to Canada,
and subject to regulations prescribed by the Minister of Customs; provided that any
dutiable article entered as Settlers’ Effects may not be so entered unless brought by
the settler on his first arrival, and shall not be sold or otherwise disposed of without
payment of duty until after twelve months’ actual use in Canada.

_A settler may bring into Canada, free of duty, live stock for the farm, on the fol-
lowing basis, if he has actually owned such live stock abroad for at least six months