“SETTLERS’ EFFECTS DUTY FREE.”
The following is an extract from the Customs tariff of Canada,
specifying the articles which can be entered by settlers free of duty:
_Item_ 455. _Settlers’ Effects, viz._:—Wearing apparel, books, usual
and reasonable household furniture and other household effects;
instruments and tools of trade, occupation or employment, guns, musical
instruments, domestic sewing machines, typewriters, bicycles, carts,
waggons and other highway vehicles, agricultural implements, and live
stock for the farm, not to include live stock or articles for sale, or
for use as a contractor’s outfit, nor vehicles nor implements moved by
mechanical power, nor machinery for use in any manufacturing
establishment; all the foregoing if actually owned abroad by the settler
for at least six months before his removal to Canada and subject to
regulations by the Minister of Customs: Provided that any dutiable
articles entered as settlers’ effects may not be so entered unless
brought by the settler on his first arrival, and shall not be sold or
otherwise disposed of without payment of duty until after twelve months’
actual use in Canada.
The settler will be required to fill up a form (which will be supplied
to him by the Customs officer on application) giving description, value,
etc., of the goods and articles he wishes to be allowed to bring in free
of duty.