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emigrant agent Hist. 
a government official appointed to assist immigrants to find land or employment on their arrival in Canada.
See also: immigration agent (def. 1)
- 1837 The minute in Council of the 20th July . . . places a sum of money at the disposal of the Emigrant Agent to enable him to open a road through some of the townships in the rear of Kingston.
- 1934 A. C. Buchanan, chief emigrant agent, estimated that of the total number of immigrants arriving at Quebec and Montreal in 1856, forty-one per cent. went to the United States.
- 1837 The minute in Council of the 20th July . . . places a sum of money at the disposal of the Emigrant Agent to enable him to open a road through some of the townships in the rear of Kingston.