out. As the tariff shuts these products out of 

 their chief market in the United States, nitric 

 acid is to be manufactured, for which there is 

 practically an unlimited market. 



On account of the cheap power available it 

 is claimed that the Canadian industry can 

 manufacture nitrates cheaper than they can be 

 imported from South America, which has 

 hitherto been the principal source of supply. In 

 the past fiscal year Canada found it necessary 

 to import from other countries nitrate of soda 

 to the extent of 22,838,208 pounds, worth $581,- 

 907, nitric acid to the extent of 71,643 gallons, 

 worth $11,456, nitrate of ammonia, 2,017,078 

 pounds, worth $127,484, and other nitrates to 

 the extent of $71,306. 



There are immense possibilities to the indus- 

 try of manufacturing nitrates from the air in 

 Canada. Nitrates form a very important ingred- 

 ient in fertilizing crops, and Norway utilizes over 

 300,000 horse-power in manufacturing nitrates 

 in this manner and exports some 60,000 tons of 

 fertilizer. Nitrates form the basic materials of 

 other Canadian industries, and their absolute 

 necessity in the manufacture of munitions is still 

 an important national consideration. With 

 Canada's unexcelled water-power resources the 

 manufacture of nitrates from the air might 

 become an industry of such proportions that 

 the Dominion would take second place to no 

 country in this regard. 



Winter in Canada. 



According to various estimates made Canada clayed 

 the host to about two million foreign visitors this summer. 

 Unfortunately, before the first touch of frost had painted 

 the maples, the great majority were compelled to return 

 to their homes. The strictly holiday season for the bulk 

 of the people was over and duties which occupied them the 

 greater part of the year called them again. With the 

 departure of the summer months there was not the same 

 comfort or convenience in motor travel, by which means so 

 many tourists gain access to the Dominion. December 

 arrived to find but a tithe of that host in the country 

 anticipating the revels of that other Canada which is 

 born only when the Frost King assumes his throne and 

 casts his snowy pall over the land. 



But there is another invading army which comes to 

 fill up the ranks, not yet so numerous, perhaps, but in- 

 creasing in volume every year. It is composed of the 

 various battalions of winter holiday-makers who place 

 Canada first of all as a land of unsurpassed winter enjoy- 

 ment. They are those who realize the futility of travelling 

 long distances and spending much money to disport them- 

 selves in the snows of Norway and Switzerland when 

 close at hand is Canada, a series of ravishing Switzerlands 

 stretching from coast to coast. They are alienated sub- 

 jects of King Winter who come each year to do homage 

 in his kingdom. 



It is enormously gratifying to Canadians to see the 

 evidences of a growing popularity of their country in the 

 winter-time, foi each fresh visitor initiated into the wonders 

 of Canadian winter pleasure cannot but spread abroad the 

 tidings of the good times. The summer tourist who 

 may pride himself on a knowledge of Canada has but 

 half completed his education if he knows not the hilarity 

 of a Canadian winter. And seldom can he learn it except 

 at first hand, for tradition dies hard and there are many 



misconceptions to be overcome. To those who have 

 formed their opinions of the Canadian winter upon popular 

 novels and the movies and whose mind-picture is a weird 

 maze of northern trappers, dog teams and blizzards, it is 

 very difficult to imagine the gay winter life of the cities 

 and towns of Canada and the pleasure the entire populace 

 extracts from bending the wintry elements to their enjoy- 

 ment. 



Canada's Economic Life Uninterrupted 



Winter does not to any extent interrupt the economic 

 life of Canada, and the country's industrial activities 

 progress in virtually the same manner. The only drastic 

 change the life of the people undergoes is in that of sport, 

 and the arrival of the cold months is attended merely 

 by the relegation of tennis racquets and golf clubs to 

 cupboards and the extracting from summer storage of 

 skis, skates, toboggans and snowshoes. Though these 

 instruments of summer pleasure are put away with re- 

 luctance there is a positive relish in anticipating the 

 commencement of winter snorts. Not everyone could 

 credit the positive disappointment with which the prospect 

 of a mild and snowless winter is regarded because they do 

 not know the fascination of tramping to the twang of 

 snowshoes, the keen delight of skimming on skates over 

 the surface of a lake, the thrills of taking a hill on skis, 

 of the breath-arresting shoot down a toboggan slide. 



Greater numbers are coming to know these delights, 

 however, as increasing numbers of tourists come to 

 Canada to disport themselves at the centres of Canadian 

 winter revelry. The growing popularity of the Canadian 

 winter is most succinctly evidenced in the swelling traffic 

 at localities where special arrangements have been made 

 for visitors to participate to the full in Canada's hibernal 

 gaiety with a maximum of comfort and a minimum of 

 inconvenience, for instance at Quebec or at Banff. 



Quebec and Banff in Holiday Array 



Quebec quaint old Quebec with its narrow streets, 

 its towering churches, its old-world atmosphere and 

 continental leisure it seems, as it sleeps under its white 

 mantle, to have been created solely as a locale for winter 

 sports. It is veritably the throne of the Snow King. 

 Here the visitor can pass rapidly, within a limited area, 

 from one sport to another skiing, skating, tobogganing, 

 snowshoeing, dog-sleighing and never wander far from 

 the precincts of an ultra-civilization. He can spend a 

 week-end there, crowded with incident and event from 

 arrival to departure, and extract as much and varied 

 pleasure as few places in the world can offer him. 



Banff a different Banff, which has shed her gay 

 summer raiment for the simple white mantle of snow the 

 same exquisite jewel of the West set in a coronet of tower- 

 ing mountains. When carnival time comes at Banff the 

 bright lights and colors, the sparkling gaiety combine to 

 rival in brilliancy and exuberance the summer season, 

 when hosts of tourists gather there to disport themselves 

 among its varied attractions. There is the same ascending 

 scale of hibernal merrymaking in which the reveller passes 

 from one sport to another in the exhilarating air of the 

 Rockies. 



The same thing is happening all over the country from 

 the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains and beyond. Those 

 who deprecate the Canadian climate do not realize that to 

 take it away (besides what Canada would lose economi- 

 cally) would be to remove one of the Dominion's greatest 

 attractions and possibilities of enjoyable pastime. Scep- 

 tics should see Dufferin Terrace on a winter afternoon, or 

 Mount Royal at the week-end, or visit Banff at carnival 

 time. Observing the brightly clad throngs disporting 

 themselves upon the snow in a crisp and invigorating 

 atmosphere, they could not honestly judge otherwise than 

 that Canada has a winter which is a distinct asset to her 

 people and attractions for her visitors in that season 

 which rival those of summer. 



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