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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 



wan River, about thirty-five miles west of its 

 junction with the South Saskatchewan. There 

 is both passenger and freight sen-ice between 

 Prince Albert and Edmonton, but navigation 

 below Prince Albert is impeded by La Colle 

 Falls, twenty-six miles away. The completion 

 of a lock and dam at this point will permit 

 river traffic between the city and Lake Win- 

 nipeg. 



The falls are also soon to be harnessed for 

 the development of electrical power, to secure 

 which the city is spending $1,000,000; the work 

 was about half done in 1917; further construc- 

 tion was suspended on account of the war in 

 Europe. Prince Albert is served by four branches 

 of the Canadian Northern Railway and by one 

 branch of the Grand Trunk Pacific (completed 

 in 1917). It is 247 miles north of Regina, 

 riphty-nine miles north of Saskatoon and 605 

 miles northwest of Winnipeg. Population in 

 1911,6,254; in 1916,6,436. 



Prince Albert is a center of Saskatchewan's 

 lumber industry; its lumberyards cut about 

 50,000,000 board feet a year. It is also the 



principal point for the shipment of furs and 

 fish of Northern Saskatchewan, and distributes 

 supplies to the Hudson's Bay Company's -posts 

 in the north. One of the city's most important 

 industrial plants is a creamery, and worthy of 

 special mention are flour mills, brickyards, cold- 

 storage plants, a slaughterhouse and a boat 

 factory. Prince Albert is also a governmental 

 center, for it is the seat of a district court, is 

 the district headquarters for Central and North- 

 ern Saskatchewan for the Royal Northwest 

 Mounted Police, and has a customs office, a 

 Dominion lands office and the provincial jail 

 and penitentiary. 



Conspicuous among the buildings are the 

 post office, armory, permanent land-show build- 

 ing, labor temple, ladies' college, Victoria Hos- 

 pital (public), Holy Family Hospital (private), 

 Roman Catholic cathedral and Anglican pro- 

 cathedral. Prince Albert is the seat of a Ro- 

 man Catholic and an Anglican bishop. The 

 city owns and operates its electric-light and 

 waterworks plants. It was founded in 1885, and 

 was incorporated in 1904. J.C.K. 



Great Lobster MarKet 



Farming is Important 



STORY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ty 



RINCE EDWARD ISLAND, an island and 

 the smallest province of the Dominion of 

 Canada. It lies in the southern part of the 

 Gulf of Saint Lawrence, sheltered on three 

 sides by Cape Breton Island and the mainland 

 of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Separat- 

 ing the island from the mainland is Northum- 

 berland Strait, which varies in width from nine 

 to thirty miles. The island is irregular in shape, 

 although its shores are roughly parallel to those 

 of the mainland, and its coast line is broken 

 by hundreds of bays, inlets and projections. 

 For the most part the coasts are low and sandy, 

 the red sandstone of which the island is formed 

 being easily worn by wind and water. Espe- 

 cially on the north shore are fine beaches, but 

 on the south are occasional low sandstone cliffs. 

 So deep are the indentations of the shore 

 that they divide the island into three equal, 

 almost separate, parts. At high tide there is 

 only a mile of dry land between Bedeque Bay 



on the south and Richmond Bay on the north, 

 and there is only about a mile and a half be- 

 tween the head of Hlllsborough River on the 

 south and Savage Harbour on the north. North 

 of Summerside the land nowhere rises above 

 175 feet, but in the central third, between Sum- 

 merside and Charlottetown, are hills over 300 

 feet high. East of Charlottetown the land is 

 again low and level. The island is 145 miles 

 long, and has an average width of thirty miles. 

 Its area is 2,184 square miles. This is about 

 two-thirds the size of its neighbor, Cape Breton 

 Island, and is one-twelve-hundredth part of the 

 Dominion. 



The Forests. Although the weather is much 

 less foggy than on Cape Breton Island or on 

 the adjoining mainland, Prince Edward Island 

 has abundant moisture for vegetation. At one 

 time the entire island was covered with forests, 

 of which between one-third and one-fourth 

 remain. Birch, beech, maple, cedar, spruce and 



