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R. E. Vernede. The Fair Dominion: A Record of Canadian Impressions
The Fair Dominion: A Record of Canadian Impressions
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE START FROM LIVERPOOL
CHAPTER II. THE STEERAGE PASSAGE
CHAPTER III. LANDING IN CANADA
CHAPTER IV. A FAIRLY LONG DAY IN QUEBEC
CHAPTER V. THE ATTRACTION OF THE SAGUENAY
CHAPTER VI. STE. ANNE DE BEAUPRÉ AND A TRAVELLER'S VOW
CHAPTER VII. A HABITANT VILLAGE AND ITS NOTAIRE
CHAPTER VIII. GLIMPSES OF MONTREAL
CHAPTER IX. TORONTO, NIAGARA FALLS, AND A NEGRO PORTER
CHAPTER X. MASKINONGÉ FISHING ON THE FRENCH RIVER
CHAPTER XI. SUPERFICIAL REFLECTIONS AT SUDBURY
CHAPTER XII. THROUGH THE HIGHLANDS OF ONTARIO
CHAPTER XIII. THE OLD TIMERS OF KILDONAN AND THE NEW. TIMERS OF WINNIPEG
CHAPTER XIV. A PRAIRIE TOWN AND THE PRAIRIE POLICE
CHAPTER XV. IN CALGARY
CHAPTER XVI. THE AMERICANISATION QUESTION
CHAPTER XVII. AMONG THE READY-MADE FARMS
CHAPTER XVIII. INTO THE ROCKIES WITH A DEFENDER OF THE FAITH
CHAPTER XIX. A HOT BATH IN BANFF
CHAPTER XX. CANADA AND WOMAN
CHAPTER XXI. THE LAKES AMONG THE CLOUDS
CHAPTER XXII. A SOLITARY RIDE INTO THE YOHO VALLEY
CHAPTER XXIII. THE FRUIT-LANDS OF LAKE WINDERMERE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE SELKIRKS—A GRIZZLY-BEAR COUNTRY
CHAPTER XXV. AN EIGHTY-MILE WALK THROUGH THE COLUMBIA VALLEY
CHAPTER XXVI. FROM GOLDEN TO THE COAST
CHAPTER XXVII. A LITTLE ABOUT VANCOUVER CITY
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE HAPPY FARMERS OF THE ISLAND
CHAPTER XXIX. A CHAT WITH THE PRIME MINISTER OF BRITISH. COLUMBIA AND A BIG FIRE AT VICTORIA
CHAPTER XXX. BACK THROUGH OTTAWA
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R. E. Vernède
Published by Good Press, 2021
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We went downstairs, and there in a narrow little room behind a long counter which had plates of sausage rolls, under meat covers to keep them from the flies, upon it, and little high stools upon which you sit in discomfort to eat the sausage rolls quickly in front of it, we found a small pale-faced boy who said 'Sure!' in the cheeriest way when we repeated our question about food. Five minutes later he had produced from a stove which he was almost too small to reach fried bacon and eggs and coffee, and while we sat and ate these good things, he gave us advice about the future. He evidently knew without asking that we were emigrants from the old country, and he supposed we wanted jobs. He recommended waiting as a start—waiting in a hotel. Waiting was not, he said, much of a thing to stick at; but there was pretty good money to be made at it in the season. Lots of tourists gave good tips—especially in Quebec—and you could save money as a waiter if you tried. He himself was from the States, but he liked Quebec well enough. Of course it was not as hustling as further west, and not to be compared to the States. If a man had ideas, the States was the place for him. There were more opportunities for a man with ideas in the States than there were in Canada. We asked him how much a man with ideas could reckon upon making in the States, and he said such a man could reckon upon making as much as five dollars a day. It did not seem an overwhelming amount to my aspiring mind—not for a man with ideas. Perhaps that is because one has heard of so many millionaires down in the States, beginning with Mr. Rockefeller. But then again, perhaps millionaires are not men with ideas themselves so much as men who know how to use the ideas of others.
Having started on money, the boy gave us a lecture on the Canadian coinage, the advantages of the decimal system, where copper money held good and why—all in a way that would have done credit to a financial expert. We thought him an amazing boy to be frying eggs and bacon behind a counter in a small café: only you don't just stick to one groove in Canada. At least you ought not to, as the boy himself told us. Englishmen were like that, but it didn't do in the States or Canada. A man should have several strings to his bow, and be ready to turn his hand to anything.
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