![]() The largest public-sector ad campaign in the country's history had led Ottawa to erect giant sheaves of wheat over The Strand in London, to establish recruitment bureaus from Reykjavik to Moscow promising "homes for millions." If you were in London 110 years ago to watch the coronation of King Edward VII, it would have looked a lot like the scene of this month's royal jubilee, with one notable exception: In 1902, the route of the royal coach, visited by millions of people, had been transformed into a giant advertisement for immigration to Canada. This is part of The Immigrant Answer –The Globe's series on the future of immigration in Canada.
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