Canada, the New Nation : A Book for the Settler, the Emigrant and the Politician / Harry Richmond Whates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whates, Harry Richmond, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada--Description and travel.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 284 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : J.M. Dent, 1906.

Summary:

IN January 1905 it was my professional duty to go to Canada to study the emigration movement. To obtain first-hand knowledge I travelled steerage with a ship load of emigrants from Liverpool. On landing at St. John, New Brunswick, the question whether Canada in mid-winter would yield a subsistence to a new arrival was put to a practical and personal test. The stream of immigration westward and northward was then followed, the Pacific Ocean being reached in May and the return to Montreal made at the end of June. During five months' almost constant travel I visited the greater part of the settled portions of Eastern Canada, traversed the Prairie region in various directions, found and took up a homestead - a Free Farm of 160 acres - in the Saskatchewan Valley, wandered in British Columbia and on the Pacific Slope, and, on the return east, made a detour northward into the great Clay Belt, which in a few years will be opened up for colonisation by the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway - the second line of communication between Ocean and Ocean.

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