CANADA

BY

J. T. BEALBY, B.A.

WITH TWELVE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
IN COLOUR

BY

T. MOWER MARTIN, R.C.A., C. M. MANLY,
HY. SANDHAM, ALLAN STEWART,
W. COTMAN EADE, & MORTIMER MENPES

LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1909

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE GREAT DOMINION
II. THE FAR WEST
III. HOME-LIFE IN CANADA
IV. WINTER SPORTS
V. FIFTY BELOW ZERO
VI. LAW AND ORDER IN CANADA
VII. THE SHIP OF THE PRAIRIE
VIII. GOLDEN WHEAT AND THE BIG RED APPLE
IX. CANADIAN TIMBER
X. WEALTH IN ROCK AND SAND
XI. SPOILS OF SEA AND WOOD
XII. WATERWAYS
XIII. FIGHTING THE IROQUOIS INDIANS
XIV. THE HABITANT OF THE ST. LAWRENCE SHORE
XV. THE HOME OF EVANGELINE
XVI. REDSKIN, ESKIMO, AND CHINK

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Ready for a Sleigh Ride . . . Mortimer Menpes . . . Frontispiece
     By kind permission of E. J. Barratt, Esq.

Parliament Buildings, Toronto . . . C. M. Manly

Mountain Scenery . . . T. Mower Martin

Tobogganing . . . T. Mower Martin

A Settler's Farm-Yard . . . T. Mower Martin

The Rocky Mountains . . . T. Mower Martin

The Ship of the Prairie . . . Allan Stewart

Ottawa . . . T. Mower Martin

Winnipeg . . . W. Cotman Eade

Big Forest Trees . . . T. Mower Martin

The Iroquois attacking Dollard's Stockade . . . Henry Sandham

Montreal . . . T. Mower Martin

Sketch-Map of Canada

SKETCH-MAP OF CANADA

The quotation from "The Song of the
Banjo," on p. 43, is made by kind
permission of Mr. Rudyard Kipling and his
publishers, Messrs. Methuen and Co.

PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, TORONTO. C. M. Manly.

CANADA

CHAPTER I

THE GREAT DOMINION

If you look at a map of North America, you will see that the whole northern half of it is one vast extent, coloured perhaps in red, and stretching north from the boundary of the United States to the Arctic Ocean; you will see that it is deeply indented by the great Hudson Bay on the north, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the east; that it has an outline projecting into many bold headlands, and a coast washed by three oceans, fringed with countless islands, great and small.

This is Canada, a land that comprises fully one-third of the 12,000,000 square miles of the British Empire, thirty times as large as England, Ireland, and Scotland combined—not much less in area, in fact, than the whole of Europe. You may realize its breadth by thinking that if you were to get on a train at