development of an agricultural nature is lim- 

 ited to the gardens of the fur-trading posts 

 located about 160 miles apart along the Mac- 

 kenzie. These gardens, however, demonstrate 

 that potatoes and various other vegetables can 

 be grown successfully as far north as the Arctic 

 circle. The surprisingly luxuriant growth that 

 wild grasses attain around the trading posts 

 suggests the possible future development of 

 stock raising. The excellent herd of cattle 

 maintained by the Roman Catholic Mission at 

 Fort Smith for many years, illustrates in the 

 clearest manner, the value of the wild grasses for 

 grazing and the adaptability of the country to 

 running of stock. 



A Future most Promising 



It requires but little imagination in the face 

 of recent undertakings to foretell the future of 

 the great tundras of the Canadian Arctic north 

 as the greatest meat producing region of the 

 world which will make the palatable and nutri- 

 tious meats of the cariboo, reindeer and musk- 

 oxen familiar to the dining tables of the globe. 

 Three islands in the waters of the North-West 

 Territories: Southampton, Mansel, and Goat's, 

 each with an abundance of fodder, have been 

 set aside by the government as perpetual breed- 

 ing grounds for reindeer and musk-oxen. Stef- 

 annson, the famous Canadian explorer, has 

 formed a company with British capital and 

 secured a thirty-year grazing lease on the south 

 half of Baffin's land for the same purpose. The 

 North American Reindeer Company has a ranch 

 of 73,750 square miles north of the Churchill 

 River to graze reindeer and cariboo upon for 

 commercial, purposes, whilst another large con- 

 cession of the Northland has been secured by 

 the Hudson's Bay Reindeer Company, a com- 

 mercial organization with the same aims. 



The bleak Canadian north framed in perpetual 

 ice and snow, the monotonous barren tundras 

 of the Arctic circle are fictitious features of long 

 harbored traditions having no substance in fact. 

 This region is one of latent wealth and poten- 

 tiality, largely unproductive as yet on account 

 of lack of exploitation, but fast being penetrated 

 and forced to utility. Canada has large areas 

 to the south yet awaiting settlement and devel- 

 opment and when these are producing to their 

 full capacity, the rich Canadian Arctic regions 

 will come into their own. 



An American's Impression of Canada 



It is always pleasant to hejr nice things said 

 of Canada as they but confirm our own opinion of 

 this country's future. The following letter was 

 published in a recent issue of the Ottawa Citizen 

 and speaks for itself;- 



Living across the border line all my life, I, like 

 many others, actively engaged there, hitherto have 

 failed to pay much attention to the claims put forth 

 in behalf of Canada as a wonderful country. A five- 

 v. '; trip from ocean to ocean over the Canadian 



Pacific Railway, has absolutely convinced me that the 

 frreat future ahead of Canada that is claimed for her 

 by your political leaders and captains of industry will 

 probably arrive much earlier than is looked for by the 

 most enthusiastic booster. 



Observations made during my trip have indeed 

 been a revelation to me, as it must also have been to 

 many others. Aside from the marvelous scenery, your 

 vast domain has potential prospects in a commercial 

 sense that cannot fail to materialize. Whether one con- 

 siders the outlook from the standpoint of mining, agri- 

 culture, lumbering, fisheries, or otherwise, a splendid 

 prospect moves into view. And Canada is surely entitled 

 to have these predictions realized. Any other out- 

 come would be unfair to her patriotic sons who are 

 forever doing something to promote the general wel- 

 fare. Then again, Canada's hospitality is really the 

 last word in that direction. As one who recently was 

 a "stranger within your gates," I know whereof I speak, 

 and am only too glad to lay a little tribute on the altar 

 of Canadian progress. Very truly yours. J. Frank 

 Howell, New York. 



Alberta's New Premier 



Another romance of Western Canadian agricul- 

 ture, additional example of the city boy who made 

 good on the farm, and further proof that success 

 awaits serious, honest efforts on the Western 

 prairies despite inexperience and paucity of 

 wealth is furnished by the story of Herbert 

 Greenfield, who was recently unanimously elec- 

 ted to head the political party of the United 

 Farmers of Alberta when they defeated the 

 existing government and who, when parliament 

 next sits, will be the premier of the Province of 

 Alberta. Mr. Greenfield was generally con- 

 sidered to be the man most eminently fitted for 

 the honor, as a practical farmer of undoubted 

 success who has been long allied with the pro- 

 vincial farmer's organization with a reputation 

 as an able politician. 



Herbert Greenfield is an English city boy, 

 born in Winchester, England, fifty-two years 

 ago and spending his youngest and most im- 

 pressionable years in an urban atmosphere. 

 At the age of twenty-three he came to Canada, 

 lacking the capital necessary for the promotion 

 of any enterprise and altogether minus any 

 experience in agriculture in which, however, he 

 believed his future prosperity lay. He worked 

 as a hired man in Ontario for some time accu- 

 mulating both capital and experience, and when 

 he believed that his stock of both justified it, he 

 purchased a farm in the west of the province 

 and set about his own career. 



The West Drew Him 



In 1906 the glamor of the West enthralled 

 him. He wanted a bigger field to expand in, a 

 newer field of endeavor which he suspected lay 

 in the fertile plains which slope eastward from 

 the Rockies. With a superabundant faith in 

 himself and in the promise the West is always 

 extending, he sold his Ontario farm and migrated 

 to Alberta. There he filed on a government 

 homestead and settled down once more to hew 

 his fortune out of Western loam. To-day he is 



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