profitable industry, but it must be borne in mind 

 that the domestic rancher has the advantage 

 over the trapper, inasmuch as he is able to kill 

 his animals when the furs are prime, and thus 

 realize the best prices. 



There may be a very profitable future in 

 store for pioneers in the breeding of fisher and 

 marten, a field which, as yet, has scarcely been 

 entered. As the best fisher pelts are selling for 

 $100 each, whilst marten may bring over $50, 

 there is every inducement to enter into the 

 breeding of these wild cousins. Up to the present, 

 it has been found somewhat difficult to success- 

 fully breed these animals in captivity, due, it is 

 thought, to lack of provision of facilities for 

 exercise. 



A Successful Beginning 



A successful beginning, however, to a marten 

 ranch is to be found at Louis Creek, British 

 Columbia, where G. H. De Ley, as reported by the 

 Commission of Conservation, has succeeded in 

 raising two generations of the animals. From a 

 pair of wild martens, he raised a litter of three, 

 two females and one male. When one year old, 

 the young females gave birth to two and four 

 young respectively, and all of them have been 

 successfully raised to maturity. 



Success in the rearing of marten and fisher in 

 the past would seem to have been largely, if not 

 wholly, defeated by lack of general knowledge of 

 wild animal breeding, which resulted in a failure 

 to provide conditions and environment corres- 

 ponding to the natural haunts. Large runs must 

 be provided, with obstacles and hiding places 

 such as hollow logs, and, in general, the animals 

 permitted to live their natural life. Unlike foxes, 

 marten do not thrive so well when the wild state 

 is left behind, and they should not be induced to 

 become tame. 



Fisher and marten raising is in the experi- 

 mental stage, through which the breeding of 

 other wild animals had to pass before prosperous 

 issue was reached. There is no reason to doubt 

 but that the causes which have hitherto resulted 

 in failure will be overcome, and the domestic 

 breeding of these profitable little animals be 

 placed on the same successful footing as that of 

 other fur-bearers in Canada. 



Across Canada Halifax 



The trans-Atlantic passenger who arrives in 

 Canada at the port of Halifax is fortunate in 

 receiving the pleasantest of impressions of the 

 new land he has come to, and the Dominion has 

 the satisfactory knowledge of the traveller 

 starting on his trip, to whatever part of the 

 interior he may be bound for, under the best 

 possible auspices. For Halifax is, indeed, a fair 

 city. Entering by its beautiful harbor, wending 

 its old-fashioned streets, viewing its fine old 



buildings on every hand, it is difficult to believe 

 that one is on the threshold of a land yet in the 

 primary stages of growth, for everywhere is the 

 calm, cultivated, leisurely imprint of the older 

 world. 



Halifax, Canada's chief Atlantic port and the 

 capital of the province of Nova Scotia, is as old 

 as Dominion history, being founded in 1749 and 

 incorporated a city in 1842. There was estab- 

 lished Canada's first bank clearing house, her 

 first newspaper, and the first public ferry. For 

 many years it was a garrison town, British 

 troops being stationed there at all times, and 

 the towering battlements, harbor defences, and 

 commodious barracks, testify to its pristine 

 military eminence. It still remains the chief 

 British naval station in the North Atlantic, and 

 the hue of the naval uniform is at all times to be 

 seen on its streets mingling with that of merchant 

 sailors from all quarters of the globe. 



Possesses Excellent Harbor Facilities 



The city is situated on a peninsula five miles 

 long by three miles broad, rising on Citadel Hill 

 to a height of about 250 feet above the sea level. 

 The harbor is land-locked with deep water and 

 natural features which make it one of. the best 

 in the world. It is considered to rank third 

 among those of the world for size, safety and 

 beauty, and covers an area of ten miles with 

 deep water anchorage for twenty-three miles. 

 One of the best dockyards in North America is 

 located at Halifax in connection with the 

 Imperial naval station. 



Commercially, industrially, and socially, 

 Halifax belies its old-world aspect, and is at all 

 times a thriving bustling centre of traffic and 

 business. Four Canadian railways have Atlantic 

 terminals' there, whilst many freight and pas- 

 senger steamship companies make regular sailings 

 from the port to Europe and other countries of 

 the globe. Beautiful parks and holiday resorts 

 are to be found on all sides for the recreation of 

 its seventy thousand population. The stately 

 legislative buildings of the province head a 

 notable aggregation of business erections and 

 public utilities. Education is cared for by Dal- 

 housie College, with its more than four hundred 

 students, several convents, a theological college, 

 and technical school. The city is the centre of 

 an area of scenic grandeur, which yearly draws 

 tourists and sightseers from a large radius. 



A Growing Industrial Centre 



Industrially, Halifax is important and an- 

 nually increasing in this respect. At the end of 

 1918, it possessed 285 industrial establishments 

 incorporated at a capital of $17,848,860. Workers 

 at these factories, numbering 8,315, received 

 yearly $5,689,915 in salaries and wages, and the 

 value of their products was $19,339,836. Manu- 

 factures include steel, shipbuilding, iron foun- 



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