Canadian Pacific Steamships "Britishers, Bring Your Families to Canada" — 1925 travel print advertisement

1925 · Travel

Canadian Pacific Steamships

Britishers, Bring Your Families to Canada

A mother and children come down the gangway toward a waiting man's open arms, the ship's hull framing the reunion, with the fare set in large type. The pitch sells emigration as a homecoming rather than a departure: it ran during the era of the 1925 Railway Agreement, under which Canadian Pacific actively recruited British families to settle Canada, so the embrace does the persuading while the price makes the move feel attainable.

Category
Travel
Decade
1920s
Period
Interwar assisted emigration
Origin
Canadian Pacific Steamships emigration poster, lithographed in Canada 1925
Format
Vertical print