CANADIAN 

 .PACIFIC 



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. 4 NO. 1 



MONTREAL 



January, 1922 



The New Year 



O 



NCE again the New Year is upon us with 

 all its hopes and prospects, all its good 

 resolutions and all its plans. 



As a growing youth welcomes the New Year, 

 resolving to do bigger and better things in the 

 twelve months stretching so gloriously before 

 him, so Canada faces the coming year with 

 courage and determination, confident in her 

 ability to continue along the pathway of de- 

 velopment and expansion which year by year, 

 in the years that 

 have passed, has 

 been her portion. 



It could not be 

 otherwise. Her 

 record is her justifi- 

 cation; her great 



natural resources her 

 warrant ; the spirit 

 of her people her 

 foundation. 



If there exists in 

 the minds of any, 

 doubt as to Can- 

 ada's power to ex- 

 tend her forward 



march of progress to complete economic recon- 

 struction, it should be swept to the attic in the 

 thought of her splendid war achievement both 

 at home and overseas for what she has done 

 under stress and trial of conflict she can most as- 

 suredly carry out in the tranquil times of peace. 



The one pessimistic thought in an otherwise 

 optimistic outlook is the present unemployment 

 situation. That the New Year may bring such 

 a revived of business and industry that this 



President E. W. Beatty in address : ng a 

 New Year's Greeting to the officers and em- 

 ployees of the Canadian Pacific Railway, in 

 which he exhorted a continuation of the same 

 good-will, co-operation, enthusiasm and loyalty 

 that has marked the career and inspired the 

 success of the Company during the forty years 

 of its existence, said: 



" Above and beyond all else, our chief aim should 

 be to promote the best interests of the Canadian people 

 and by our united efforts and efficient service, accelerate 

 the development and progress of our great Dominion." 



lamentable condition shall soon cease to exist, 

 is the earnest wish of every Canadian. Grant 

 that it may be so. 



The Dominion Government figures for this 

 year's wheat crop of 329,855,300 bushels, indicate 

 progress in both cultivation and production. 

 Louis Hebert, Canada's pioneer farmer, little 

 dreamed when he turned the first sod on his 

 tiny farm on the heights of Quebec in the early 

 days of Champlain, that he was beginning a 

 work which would develop into a huge national 

 asset. He thought only of providing food for 



the immediate needs 

 of his family, but in 

 so doing gave im- 

 petus and encourage- 

 ment to what has 

 become Canada's 

 first industry. 



Canada is one of 

 the few remaining 

 countries that offer 

 agricultural lands on 

 terms within the 

 means of settlers of 

 limited capital, loca- 

 ted in a land of dem- 

 ocratic self-govern. 



ment and with a climate acceptable and desirable 



to the white race. 



With a recurrence of the influx of desirable 

 immigration and consequent development of 

 this vast area of productive farm lands, a corre- 

 sponding extension in trade and commerce and 

 all that goes to the building of a great nation 

 must accrue. 



Canada welcomes the New Year with confi- 

 dence and with optimism. 



