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Arthur E. Copping. Canada To-day and To-morrow
Canada To-day and To-morrow
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE DOMINION’S DESTINY
CHAPTER II. RETROSPECT
CHAPTER III. QUEBEC PROVINCE
CHAPTER IV. NIAGARA AND WHITE COAL
CHAPTER V. THE LUMBER KING
CHAPTER VI. TORONTO AND ITS EXHIBITION
CHAPTER VII. MANITOBA: CLUES TO PRAIRIE FARMING
CHAPTER VIII. AMONG THE DUKHOBORS
CHAPTER IX. THE HISTORY OF THE C.P.R
CHAPTER X. THE NEW HUDSON BAY ROUTE
CHAPTER XI. EXPERIENCES OF IMMIGRANTS
CHAPTER XII. WINNIPEG AND THE CENTENARY
CHAPTER XIII. KEY TO CANADA’S MINERAL WEALTH: A WARNING TO BRITISH CAPITALISTS
CHAPTER XIV. NEW SASKATCHEWAN
CHAPTER XV. INDIANS AND THE MISSIONARY
CHAPTER XVI. NORTHERN ALBERTA
CHAPTER XVII. NEW TRANS-CONTINENTAL LINES
CHAPTER XVIII. THE STORY OF THE SALMON FISHERIES
CHAPTER XIX. BRITISH COLUMBIA AND SOME REFLECTIONS
INDEX
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Arthur E. Copping
Published by Good Press, 2022
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It is surprising to find such an obvious piece of the Old World at the threshold of the New World; and Quebec’s antiquity is emphasised when, on travelling through the Dominion, one notes the modern aspect of the other cities. Clues to that contrast will be found in Canada’s lop-sided history.
Indeed, to look at the Dominion through the historian’s telescope is to be baffled by a picture that will not get into focus. An eastern portion is full of background, middle-distance and foreground; southern and western strips reveal nothing but foreground; a central northern region has detail only in the middle distance; and the bulk of the area is equally without definition here, there and beyond. In other words, one part of the Dominion has much history, other parts have some, and many parts have none.
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