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Canadian provinces they lay

Divided by river and by bay,

Many a separate division,

Among them there was no cohesion.

But statesmen saw that a great nation

Could be formed by federation,

And soon they led public opinion

To favor forming this Dominion.

North-West with its streams and fountains,

With sources in the Rocky Mountains,

It was all a great mystery,

Hunting for furs its history.

Though North-West is filling slow

Yet soon there will be mighty flow,

Millions to North-West will hurry

In last decade of century.

For therein is an opening grand

In great fertile prairie land,

For there the choicest wheat it grows

Near where the Saskatchewan flows.

And on many a river's branch

There is found great grazing ranch,

Favoured districts therein abound

Where cattle graze all the year round.

Protected from the stormy blast

By the Rocky Mountains vast,

Through canon blows no storm terrific,

But balmy breezes from Pacific.