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Canada. Department of the Interior. Canada West
Canada West
Table of Contents
LAND REGULATIONS IN CANADA
THE FOLLOWING IS A PLAN OF A TOWNSHIP
CUSTOMS REGULATIONS
FREIGHT REGULATIONS
QUARANTINE OF SETTLERS' CATTLE
UNITED STATES AGENTS
ANOTHER GOOD YEAR IN WESTERN CANADA
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta Have Splendid Crops
PANAMA CANAL AND CANADA
WHAT HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT WESTERN CANADA
METEOROLOGICAL RECORD FOR JANUARY, 1913
SWEEPSTAKE UPON SWEEPSTAKE
A Manitoba Steer Carries Off Honors Similar to Those Won by a Half-brother in 1912
AREAS OF LAND AND WATER
WHAT SOME MANITOBA FARMERS HAVE DONE
CITIES AND TOWNS
POPULATION AND LIVESTOCK
CENTRAL SASKATCHEWAN
SOUTHERN SASKATCHEWAN
NORTHERN SASKATCHEWAN
CITIES AND TOWNS
WHAT SASKATCHEWAN FARMERS ARE DOING
NORTHERN ALBERTA
SOUTHERN ALBERTA
CENTRAL ALBERTA
WHAT SOME ALBERTA FARMERS ARE DOING
CONDITIONS IN ALBERTA, 1913
WHAT WINS IN CENTRAL CANADA
YOUR OPPORTUNITY
GENERAL INFORMATION
VALUABLE HINTS FOR THE MAN ABOUT TO START
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Canada. Department of the Interior
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The Cities Reflect the Growth of the Country.—Passing through Western Canada from Winnipeg, and observing the cities and towns along the network of railways in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, one feels there must be "something of a country" behind them all. Gaze in any direction and the same view is presented: field after field of waving grain; labourers at work converting the virgin prairie into more fields; wide pasture lands where cattle are fattening on grasses rich in both milk- and beef-producing properties. Here is the wealth that builds the cities.
In thirty years Winnipeg has increased in population from 2,000 to 200,000; and become an important gateway of commerce. The wheat alone grown in the three prairie provinces in 1913 is sufficient to keep a steady stream of 1,000 bushels per minute continuously night and day going to the head of the lakes for three and a half months, and in addition to that, the oats and barley would supply this stream for another four months. The value of the grain crop alone would be sufficient to build any of our great transcontinental railroads and all their equipment, everything connected with them, from ocean to ocean. With only 10 per cent of the arable land under cultivation, what will the possibilities be when 288 million acres of the best land that the sun shines on is brought under the plough? Do you not see the portent of a great, vigorous, populous nation living under those sunny skies north of the 49th parallel?
