x PREFACE 



which should more than compensate him for some necessary sacrifice 

 of small comforts and amenities of life. 



The opening up of the Canadian North-West of Canada has 

 been an event of world-wide importance, for it has developed a 

 vast new source of food supply for the old world, and is fast raising 

 Canada to an important standing. Here is undoubtedly a field 

 for the strenuous worker : the man with his career ahead of him. 



Yet for him who understands and enjoys ' mixed farming ' 

 there exist in Nova Scotia immense fertile areas on which hay, 

 grain, root, and fodder crops may be made to grow luxuriantly ; 

 there are large tracts of wild pasture lands which may be acquired 

 at a trifling cost admirably adapted for profitable sheep-raising ; 

 there are great opportunities for raising arid fattening cattle for 

 the foreign trade in meat ; while the nearness to good markets 

 is a special advantage which Nova Scotia has to offer. Improved 

 farms with comfortable homesteads are frequently to be picked up 

 at a bargain where a man may make a comfortable living without 

 bring called ujxm to face the undeniable hardships which often 

 confront the pioneer of the prairie-provinces of the West. There 

 is an excellent free school system established by the Government 

 throughout the Province of Nova Scotia, so that the new-comer 

 is sure to find himself enjoying good educational advantages for 

 his family, and within easy access of religious worship, and most 

 of the amenities of what is known as civilized life. For him whose 

 powers or work and ambition have somewhat been spent along 

 the dusty roads of the world's traffic, for him who desires beyond 

 all other things airy, pure, fresh days surrounded by beautiful 

 things woods, meadows, pleasant streams for instance, with some 

 congenial activity, the seaward province of Nova Scotia, with its 

 varied features, its moderate healthy climate, its striking similarity 

 in type among both the vegetable and animal kingdom to those 

 common in the mother-country, appeals as the more fitting field 



