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MORAINE 



found in the great pine forest, and almost 

 every kind of fresh-water fish will rise to the 

 hopeful angler's bait, although the speckled 

 trout, pickerel, pike and bass are most plen- 

 tiful. 



MOOSE JAW, a city in the south-central 

 part of Saskatchewan, one of the most impor- 

 tant communities in the Canadian West. It is 

 about midway between Winnipeg and Calgary, 

 on the main line of the Canadian Pacific and on 

 important branches of the Canadian Northern 

 and Grand Trunk Pacific railways. By the 

 shortest rail route Moose Jaw is 300 miles west 

 of Winnipeg and 438 miles east of Calgary. 

 Regina is forty-two miles east of Moose Jaw, 

 and Swift Current is 110 miles west. Moose 

 Jaw was settled about 1883, was incorporated as 

 a city in 1903, and in 1912 adopted the commis- 

 sion form of government. How Moose Jaw got 

 its name is an interesting story. The Indians 

 say that about 'the year 1860 a pioneer, Lord 

 Dunmore, with his wife and child, camped on 

 the banks of what is now called Thunder Creek. 

 There he mended a broken wheel on his Red 

 River cart with the jaw-bone of a moose, and 

 the Indians afterward spoke of this spot as the 

 place where the white man found the moose 

 jaw. The city has had a remarkable growth; 

 its population increased from 1,558 in 1901 to 

 13,823 (Dominion census) in 1911. Population 

 in 1916, 16,889. 



Moose Jaw is in the heart of the greatest 

 wheat belt in North America, and naturally re- 

 ceives and ships millions of bushels a year. It 

 has one of the three large interior storage ele- 

 vators (capacity 3,500,000 bushels) owned by 

 the Dominion government, and also a number 

 of privately-owned elevators. Moose Jaw's 

 flour mills have a daily capacity of 5,000 bar- 

 rels and are among the chief industrial estab- 

 lishments. Leading industries are slaughtering 

 and meat-packing and the manufacture of war 

 munitions. The Canadian Pacific Railway in 

 its local yards and shops employs about 2,000 

 men. Moose Jaw is important also as a whole- 

 sale center, and is a distributing point for a ter- 

 ritory whose radius is 200 to 300 miles. 



The city has a large number of attractive 

 buildings, both public and private. Notewor- 

 thy are the post office, erected in 1915 at a cost 

 of $300,000; the armoiy, completed in 1914 at 

 an expense of $150,000; the public library, and 

 the Young Women's Christian Association. 

 Worthy of special mention among the business 

 blocks are the Hammond Block and the Walter 

 Scott building. Other conspicuous structures 



are the collegiate institute, Saint Andrew's Pres- 

 byterian Church, Zion Church (Methodist), the 

 land titles building, the general hospital and 

 Saskatchewan College, a residential school for 

 boys. Crescent Park, River Park and River 

 Drive are attractive features. Moose Jaw is 

 especially fortunate, for a prairie city, in hav- 

 ing opportunity for boating and bathing, and 

 its aquatic club is stimulating interest in water 

 sports. Thus Moose Jaw River, though of no 

 commercial importance, adds greatly to the en- 

 joyment of the citizens. The city owns and op- 

 erates its electric light and power plant and its 

 water works. Water is piped from Caron 

 Springs, a distance of twenty-two miles. For 

 fire protection a high-pressure system was in- 

 stalled in 1913. Moose Jaw's electric street rail- 

 way was the first in Saskatchewan. W.F.H. 



MOOSE RIVER, one of the large streams 

 which drains Northern Ontario into Hudson 

 Bay. It is formed by the confluence of the 

 Mattagami and &*e Missinaibi, the former be- 

 ing considered the main stream. The Moose 

 proper, from the confluence to its mouth at the 

 southern end of James Bay, is seventy-five 

 miles long, but from the head of the Mattagami 

 to the mouth of the Moose is a distance of 340 

 miles. About thirty-five miles from its mouth 

 the Moose receives another large stream, the 

 Abitibi, which is also 340 miles long and has its 

 sources east of the Mattagami. These streams, 

 with their tributaries, spread out in the shape 

 of a fan, and drain nearly the whole of the 

 Timiskaming district. The area of this drain- 

 age basin is 42,100 square miles. Moose Fac- 

 tory, a famous post of the Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany, is on the Moose River near its mouth. 



MOOSOMIN, moo'somin, a town in south- 

 eastern Saskatchewan. It is on the main line 

 of the Canadian Pacific Railway, eighty-seven 

 miles west of Brandon, about twelve miles west 

 of the Manitoba boundary, and 138 miles east 

 of Regina. Moosomin is one of the older towns 

 in the Northwest; it was incorporated as a 

 town in 1889. It has a land titles office, cus- 

 toms office and provincial jail, and is the seat 

 of a judicial district and a district headquarters 

 of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. It 

 also has a normal school, a school of music and 

 a collegiate institute in addition to the regular 

 public schools. The region surrounding Moo- 

 somin is noted as a mixed farming district. 

 Population in 1911, 1,143; in 1916, about 1,400. 



MORAINE , mo rain ' , a mass of rock and 

 gravel carried by a glacier and deposited at its 

 lower end. The rocks and gravel are gathered 



