Agricultural and Industrial 

 Progress in Canada 



A monthly review of Agricultural and Industrial progress in Canada, 

 published by the Department of Colonization and Development of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway at Montreal, Canada. 



VOL. 3 No. 3 



MONTREAL 



March, 1921 



An Asset or a Liability 



WINTER time in Canada has joys and 

 advantages all its own. The pessimist 

 does not agree with this statement. He 

 complains that it is too cold, disagreeable and 

 unhealthy; that it produces heavy coal and 

 clothing bills, the prevalence of serious illnesses, 

 and the interruption of traffic and general 

 business. 



Canada is a country not of one, but of many 

 climates, with roses blooming at Christmas time 

 on Vancouver Island, while Winnipeg, Montreal 

 and Quebec are getting ready for their annual 

 curling bonspiel. As 

 a matter of fact, the 

 climate of Canada 

 constitutes one of 

 its greatest advan- 

 tages. Anyone who 

 will take the trouble 

 to glance at a map 

 of the world will 

 observe that Can- 

 ada lies in the same 

 latitude as the virile 

 white races of Eu- 

 rope, and there can 

 be no question that 

 the climate of the 

 northern temperate 

 latitude is more 

 favorable to the 

 development of healthy races than are the more 

 southern climates. Vital statistics bear this 

 out. Nowhere in the world will a healthier class 

 of children be found than in Canada, and the 

 state of health of the children is perhaps the 

 best indication of the advantages of the climate. 

 Canada's death rate per 1,000, for example, is 

 lower than that of England, Germany, Hungary, 

 Spain, Sweden, United States, Chili, etc. 



If it were not for Canada's climate, we would 

 not be producing the finest milling wheat in 

 the world; the primest of beef cattle; the growing 



CANADA'S CLIMATE FROM COAST TO COAST 



output of lumber and furs; and the fine, vigorous 

 race of young men and women that so cheerfully 

 demonstrated, in the recent Armageddon, its 

 ability to endure and accomplish. 



Long summer days, with short growing 

 season, put the quality in "No. 1 Northern"; 

 bracing cold weather puts bone and muscle, 

 fat and hide on horses and cattle; snow solves 

 the lumberman's and fur trapper's transporta- 

 tion problem, while to the lover of outdoor 

 sports, winter time is a season to be anticipated. 



From the Canadian Rockies to the shores of 

 Nova Scotia, the first snowfall is hailed with 



delight. Lumber- 



, men move into their 



winter camps and 

 prepare to snake 

 out logs ; trappers 

 and hunters look to 

 the strings of their 

 snowshoes ; sleds 

 and toboggans are 

 brought from their 

 summer resting 

 places and enthusi- 

 astically overhaul- 

 ed ; ski-ers dream of 

 record j umps as they 

 usher in winter with 

 an initial run; and 

 hockey players get 

 down to training 



for the strenuous games that put the Canadian 

 'Falcons" into the premier place at the Antwerp 

 Olympic championship contests last year. 



The ramparts Dufferin Terrace at old 

 Quebec take on a picturesque appearance little 

 dreamed of in the days of Wolfe and Montcalm. 

 Here, within a radius of 150 yards of the famous 

 hostelry "Chateau Frontenac," skating, curling, 

 ski-jumping and tobogganing hold sway. A 

 kaleidoscopic array of colors and costumes puts 

 the finishing touch to an infectious atmosphere 

 of the joy of living. Those who know it not 



