furious way over hill and down coulee. An 

 ambulance in the undiluted "wild and woolly" 

 is a somewhat unusual spectacle, but this same 

 "blighty wagon," as soldiers were wont to call 

 it, has saved the lives of hundreds of lambs 

 each season. 



The ambulance is mounted on a Ford truck, 

 and the interior is fitted out with ten pens, five 

 on each side. It rambles over the countryside 

 at lambing time and, picking up the ewes with 

 new-born lambs, journeys with them in the snug 

 little pens to the sheltering fold. Here the 

 couples are placed in other comfortable pens, 

 the ewe fed on oats and hay, and the lamb, if 

 found to be cold, placed between blankets. Then, 

 when the sun comes out and the lamb has recu- 

 perated a little strength, the ewe and its woolly 

 offspring are turned out to graze upon the fresh 

 rich grass of the adjacent pastures. When 

 lambs are being born too quickly to be all 

 accommodated by the motor ambulance, horse- 

 drawn ranch vehicles are pressed into service. 

 Just what value this system of ensuring the 

 life of the lamb is to the rancher may be judged 

 from the fact that in stormy springs, when other 

 sheep ranchers have had a heavy toll of their 

 newly born lambs, Mr. Heninger claims to have 

 come through without the loss of a single animal. 



The ranch houses are in tune with the pro- 

 gressive modernity of the ranch methods, all 

 buildings, both for the rancher's family and his 

 helpers, being electrically heated and supplied 

 with running water furnished by a storage 

 cistern. Wealth is to be found along many 

 roads in Western Canada, and Mr. Hensinger 

 has found the sheep road. 



Industrial Outlook in Western Canada 



By John Sweeting, Industrial Agent, C.P.R., Winnipeg. 



The month of February is bringing with it a 

 distinctly brighter outlook in Western develop- 

 ment. Conventions of business men which 

 have been held in Winnipeg and other Western 

 points show a determination to meet existing 

 conditions by a re-arrangement of prices more 

 on the level with public requirements. At the 

 same time the feeling has pervaded each con- 

 vention that the future is deserving of optimistic 

 consideration rather than any suggestion of 

 possible deterrent factors. The Retail Lumber- 

 men, the Builders' Association, the B.C. Fruit 

 Growers and other organizations interested in 

 the various active production work of the West, 

 appear to have faced existing conditions with 

 equanimity and are desirous only of finding a 

 proper solution for the continuation of good 

 business and the care of unemployment. 



While the Western construction programme 

 may at the moment be looked upon as tentative, 

 yet the necessity for accommodation of all kinds 

 will be the prime factor in reaching a decision 



immediately the spring opens up and active 

 operations can be carried on. There appears to 

 be little doubt that actual construction work on 

 the prairies this year will greatly exceed the 

 total of 1920, even although, as seems at present, 

 the actual reduction in the price of all building 

 materials in the aggregate will not be very 

 large. There are, however, many possibilities 

 in this relation, and the situation, to say the 

 least, is quite hopeful. 



Extension of Trading 



There is a noticeable increase in enquiries 

 from United States sources as to Western 

 industrial expansion, while from Great Britain 

 and also continental points many enquiries are 

 coming through looking to the extension of 

 trading with Canada. There is likely to be 

 great activity in prospecting work of all kinds, 

 the gold, silver and copper areas of Manitoba 

 have attracted a large amount of interest, and 

 are due for greater development this year than 

 has hitherto been the case. The active work 

 on the part of the Imperial Oil Co. and other 

 organizations in drilling for oil will undoubtedly 

 increase, with . possibilities of very interesting 

 developments. 



Agriculturally, there is a large area of land in 

 all the provinces ready for seeding, and with the 

 usual amount of spring plowing the crop situation 

 should be well above normal. On the coast the 

 outlook among the pulp and paper mills is quite 

 good, and with one or two new organizations 

 beginning operations the output will show an 

 increase. The general opinion in the British 

 Columbia lumber trade appears to be optimistic 

 for a good season's business, and mills and other 

 plants which have been closed are already 

 opening up in preparation for renewed activity. 

 There is promise of large immigration, which in 

 itself brings a very considerable amount of new 

 business to the country. 



Reviewing the Western situation as a whole, 

 one cannot help feeling satisfied that the out- 

 look justifies a spirit of optimism; the West has 

 come through a somewhat difficult period with 

 credit and is taking its courage in both hands; 

 this spirit will be the foundation of continued 

 success. 



A Tribute from " Leslie's Weekly " 



An address of more than usual interest to 

 Canadians was that given recently before the 

 Canadian Club of Montreal, by Dr. C. A. Eaton, 

 editor of Leslie's Weekly. 



The Rev. Dr. Eaton, who is described by the 

 Toronto Globe as "a scholar, a thinker and a 

 man of broad human sympathies," is by training 

 and experience well informed on world con- 

 ditions. Beginning to preach at 18 years of age, 

 he.has successively been pastor of many churches 



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