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therefore more home-like than any other town 

 out of the United Kingdom, the average wage 

 for a labourer without board is five shillings a 

 day. This is for unskilled labour. A gardener 

 without board gets six shillings a day, and the 

 plainest of plain cooks twenty -two pounds a year, 

 and an unlimited choice of mistresses. 



In Ottawa I interviewed a gardener, whose 

 wages, he told me, were thirty-six shillings a 

 week, whilst his work was of the very simplest 

 description. His five-roomed cottage cost him 

 seven shillings a week, and he was able to buy 

 the best beef-steak at sixpence a pound. But 

 the Ottawa gardener deprecated the idea of living 

 in another man's house. Out of his savings he 

 had bought a small plot of land in the town, and 

 in his spare time had built upon it, principally 

 with his own hands, a home for himself and his 

 wife, whose labours as a laundress added another 

 thirty shillings a month to the family income. 



In Winnipeg, the most go-ahead of all Cana- 

 dian towns, with a climate pleasant and bracing, 

 in spite of the extremes registered by the 

 thermometer, both in summer and winter, farm- 

 labourers' wages are a trifle higher than in 

 Halifax. Miners' wages are a little higher than 

 farm-labourers', and any kind of a cook is worth 

 at least twenty -five pounds a year and her board. 



