This virtual exhibition is about the Canadian government's role in advertising free land in The Last Best West to farmers and farm workers in Britain, the United States and Europe. These were the only immigrants targeted by the government, apart from domestic servants. The Canadian Pacific Railway, and other rail and ocean transportation companies, helped promote government land in western Canada to would-be immigrants. The exhibition presents images of western Canada that appeared in posters put out by the government and the big transportation companies. Also on view are colourful government pamphlet covers; newspaper advertisements for immigrants; promotional photographs and notices. Photographs of touring exhibition wagons, and displays of prairie wheat at large agricultural shows and small country fairs, are also included. [self-description]