North Bay is one gateway to Northern 

 Ontario just over the boundary of the Provinces 

 of Ontario and Quebec. The Temiskaming and 

 Northern Ontario Railway, which commences 

 at North Bay, runs as a backbone through the 

 centre of the territory as far as Cochrane, and 

 is now blasting its way into the James Bay area. 



Another gateway lies forty-six miles east of 

 North Bay at Mattawa, just over the boundary 

 of the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, where 

 a Canadian Pacific line runs a distance of thirty- 

 seven miles to Temiskaming, from which point 

 a steamer connects with towns at the head 

 of Lake Temiskaming. From Temiskaming a 

 new line is under construction to Les Quinze, 

 a further distance ot seventy miles. 



Railways radiate from the new city north, 

 south, east and west, two of them main trans- 

 continental lines. Through North Bay, on its 

 way to Eastern and Western Canada and the 

 United States, passes the great wealth of 

 Northern Ontario, its gold, silver and lumber, 

 its manufactured pulp and paper. Through it 

 passes the manufactured needs of the many 

 camps and the thriving small towns which 

 serve the working areas. 



Industrially a Progressive City 



North Bay is a compact little city situated 

 on Lake Nipissing within convenient distances 

 of Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa. It is 

 furnished with excellent educational establish- 

 ments, banks, newspapers, public buildings, 

 hospitals and other civic institutions. The city 

 is well laid out with fine residential districts 

 and is surrounded by numerous summer resorts 

 within commuting distance. 



Industrially North Bay is making steady 

 and rapid progress. Between the years 1917 

 and 1919 the number of its larger industrial 

 establishments increased from 37 to 52; the 

 capital invested in them from $828,020 to $937,- 

 357; the number of employees engaged from 

 691 to 970; their wages from $651,112 to $1,153,- 

 602; and the production of the plants from 

 $1,651,966 to $2,381,027. The city has two 

 planing mills, two sawmills, a brick plant, box 

 factory, car repair shops, machine shops, 

 furniture factory and numerous wholesale 

 houses. The wealth of raw material in the 

 district and in all Northern Ontario makes 

 attractive the possibility of establishing new 

 industries there. 



At the present time, however, North Bay's 

 distinctive importance lies in its strategic 

 position as the distributing point for the ex- 

 tensive area north of it stretching from the main 

 line of the Canadian Pacific Railway right up 

 to James Bay. This is a tremendous region 

 given over almost entirely to the exploitation 

 of natural resources and requiring to be con- 

 tinually supplied with manufactured necessities. 

 These must pass into the country through these 



gateways, and manufacturers and wholesale 

 houses are coming to an increasing extent to 

 realize this. 



Northern Ontario is an expansive area which 

 is only commencing to reveal the immensity 

 and diversity of its wealth, and fresh disclosures 

 are of so rapid an occurrence that even the 

 most expert engineers hesitate to put limits to 

 what lies latent beneath its soil. North Bay 

 has already achieved considerable development 

 as this area's point of contact with the outside 

 industrial world, and its prestige must con- 

 siderably enhance with the great future fore- 

 shadowed for New Ontario. 



Canada's Climate Again 



With the shortening fall days and the 

 approach of winter months, once again arises 

 in foreign publications arguments and opinions 

 as to the desirability or disadvantages of 

 Canada's climate. 



We who live in Canada are quite satisfied 

 with our winter climate; we know it is both 

 desirable and advantageous, and that without it 

 we could not hope to raise the finest hard wheat 

 in the world and the splendid crop of sturdy, 

 healthy, young men and women. Farmers 

 know that bracing cold weather puts bone and 

 muscle, fat and hide on horses and cattle; lum- 

 bermen and trappers that snow solves their 

 transportation problem; while to the lover of 

 outdoor sports, winter time in Canada is a season 

 to be anticipated. Finally, vital statistics bear 

 out the fact that nowhere in the world will a 

 healthier class of children be found than in 

 Canada, and the state of health of the younger 

 generations is the very best indication of the 

 advantages of the climate. 



In a very eulogistic article on Canada in the 

 October issue of the International Bulletin 

 published by the International Institute of 

 Economics of New York, one of Canada's 

 great drawbacks is stated to be the climate. 

 "Cosmopolis," who writes the article, says: 



"Canada's chief disadvantage is that her farther 

 northern climate renders her products less diversified 

 than America's by which he means, of course, the 

 United States and grips great areas in frosts that 

 forever forbid cultivation of them." 



On the face of it, this would seem to be 

 fact, but it would be difficult to convince Stef- 

 ansson and other recent Northern explorers of 

 this fact. "Forever" as applied to cultivation 

 and living conditions in Canada is a doubtful 

 word, for, as time goes on, conditions in Canada 

 change, and with further northward cultivation 

 and colonization the so-called Arctic climate 

 is being driven farther North. To any who 

 have read Stefansson's article on climate in 

 the February, 1922, World's Work, The Livable 

 North,' the following quotation will be familiar; 

 to those who have not read it, it will be of in- 

 terest. 



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