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''100,000 Woman Wanted'' is an article published in the [[Daily Mail]] on 13 july 1914, including a part of an interview with [[Arthur Conan Doyle]].


== 100,000 Woman Wanted ==
[[File:daily-mail-1914.07.13-p3-100-000-women-wanted.jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[Daily Mail]] (13 july 1914, p. 3)]]

'''Sir A. Conan Doyle on Canada's Need.'''

<q>"Canada could do with 100,000 women,"</q> said [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]] to a representative of ''The Daily Mail'' on reaching Liverpool yesterday in the White Star liner Megantic from Montreal.

[[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur]] and [[Jean Elizabeth Leckie|Lady Doyle]] have spent about five weeks on a Canadian tour and a week in New York, <q>"The men on the farms in the Dominion are lonely and in times of bad crops get disheartened,"</q> said [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur]]. <q>"The women would make their homes brighter and help them through. I think the State should assist the 100,000 woman to go out there. It should be a kind of gigantic matrimonial agency. The need of wives was a subject I heard on all sides during my tour.</q>

<q>"A good farmer will always make his way in Canada. I was struck with the rapidity with which he can become prosperous. Often I saw the prairie wagon in which the emigrant had arrived with his family side by side with the hut which he had afterwards built and a little distance away a very fine wooden house with six rooms, all representing two years' growth.</q>

<q>"I was, of course, impressed by the Dominion's possibilities. The opening of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway has been the latest great achievement and the hinterland will now be opened up very quickly.</q>

<q>"It is twenty years since I was last in New York, and I don't think London can teach New York very much now." 









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