"Berwick and Kelso Warder" (continued) Part 3

"The Canada Company have also urged on the Government, as shown by a paper moved for by the Earl of Mountcashell, and laid on the table of the House of Lords, the justice of appropriating the money amounting to £60 000, due from them in respect of their purchase of Crown lands, to establish a scheme to encourage, direct, and facilitate, emigration to Canada.

That the debt payable by the Canada Company, together with the proceeds of the sale of the crown revenue lands, should be applied to purposes of emigration, is dictated equally by the interests and necessities of the British North American provinces, and by that impartial policy which should regulate the parent state in the relations with all its dependencies. It is too obvious, to require statement, that the unlimited extent of fertile territory in British North America, still remaining unoccupied, must continue unproductive and valueless, unless its resources are developed by the united operation of capital and industry; and it is equally evident that this can only result from emigration on a large scale, to be accomplished by the expenditure of ample funds. The money which may be raised by the judicious and systematic sale, at a moderate rate, of the crown reserve lands, would materially aid in attaining this end; and it is difficult to justify the diversion from an object so legitimate to purposes of ordinary state expenditure, of the large sums paid to government by the Canada Company in respect of grants of lands. This diversion is open to further objection; for while a boon so important has been denied to British North America, it has been conceded to other British colonies, in contravention of the most manifest principles of justice; and the Australian dominions of the Crown have derived from the preference thus extended to them, advantages which cannot be overrated.

A committee has been formed of members of the Colonial Society impressed with the importance of, and interested in, the colonization of British North America, and to this object they are indefatigably and zealously devoting their attention, their experience, and their influence..."

This article continues on at length, but certainly provides insight into the reasons for the push to urge emigration to British North America.