 Not only was their arrival not properly prepared as was previously promised by the Casado company because the settlement complex should have been surveyed and a railway constructed up to the settlement location, the settlement on the promised land was delayed 16 months and the immigrants were forced to stay in a preliminary, overpopulated camp in Puerto Casado before being able to move into the interior of the Chaco wilderness and the land they had bought for their settlement.Many became sick due to the lack of medical care, whereof 121 died, 75 of them being children under 14 years.Some 60 families returned to Canada.