Report of the Council for Social Service

Prologue: The Synod then returned to consideration of the Triennial Report of the Council for Social Service, at the Section "Work of the Dominion Government in Immigration."; Moved by the Bishop of Toronto, seconded by Canon Vernon,; That the General Synod, recognizing that the Government of Canada and its Department of Immigration and Colonization have been taking steps to secure an increasing British migration to Canada, desires to pledge to co-operation of the Church of England in Canada, through its Council for Social Service and its British representatives the Church of England Council of Empire Settlement, in this matter, and at the same time to urge the calling together by the Government of Canada at the earliest possible opportunity of a Conference representing the Dominion and Provincial Governments, the Churches, all voluntary organizations interested in immigration and the transportation companies to discuss the practical details involved in carrying out a still more extended policy of preferential British Immigration, and to secure the fullest possible co-operation of all concerned.

Text of motion: Resolved, That the preamble of the Resolution "recognizing...to Canada" be deleted.

Notes: Moved by: Canon Vernon; Seconded by: Bishop of Toronto; Resolved, That the Section `Work of the Dominion Government in Immigration' as amended be adopted.

Subjects: Canada - Emigration and immigration - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada; Great Britain - Emigration and immigration; Church of England. Council of Empire Settlement; Church work with immigrants - Anglican Church of Canada; Church of England in Canada. Council for Social Service