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Grand Pre by special train for Kentville, the headquarters of the 

 Dominion Atlantic Railway. There they divided into two sections. 

 One section went with Sir Frederick W. Borden, Minister of Militia, 

 to visit his orchard and his district. They were entertained by Sir 

 Frederick. The other section visited some farms in the vicinity of 

 Kentville where Mr Dodge, one of the members of the Provincial 

 Legislature, acted as their host. They left Kentville for Berwick 

 at 3 o'clock. Met there by representative farmers they were driven 

 nearly twenty miles through one of the best parts of the valley, 

 passing on the way Aylesford and Auburn. Kingston was reached 

 at 6.30. Here they caught up the other Commissioners who had 

 joined the train at Kentville, and together they made for Middleton, 

 where the train was put into a siding for the night. The following 

 morning a visit was paid to Annapolis, a town of 1000 inhabitants 

 founded by the French in 1605, where as usual we received much 

 kindness. Digby was reached in time to catch the boat which 

 crossed the Bay of Fundy to St John, and thus ended our too brief 

 stay in Nova Scotia. 



New Brunswick 



New Brunswick is more famous for its timber and its game 

 than for its agriculture. But it has agricultural interests too. 

 Unfortunately the limitations of time prevented us doing justice 

 to them. In the afternoon of our arrival at St John we had only 

 an opportunity of paying a short visit to the New Brunswick Cold 

 Storage Company's premises, and the Falls on the St John river 

 caused by the high tide in the Bay of Fundy. Next day we left 

 for Fredericton, eighty-four miles up the St John River. The 

 Canadian Government, with much wisdom, mixed work with pleasure. 

 No better holiday could be spent than the day we spent on this 

 great Canadian waterway. It is broad and majestic, and the hills 

 on either side are covered with a variety of trees in which the spruce 

 seems to predominate, and every now and again there are hamlets 

 and isolated houses of artistic design, painted in various colours, 

 peeping out from among a profusion of foliage. The hills disappear 

 as you get nearer Fredericton, and the arable land increases. The 

 river in winter overflows its banks and leaves a silt on the land 

 which adds greatly to its fertility, so much so that the farmers grow 

 hay on it year after year without any other fertiliser. In addition 

 to stock-farming, market-gardening and fruit-growing are carried on. 

 In fact, the valley of the St John is the fruit belt of New Brunswick. 

 The produce is taken mostly to St John. The river insures cheap 

 transport. It was about 5 p.m. when we reached Fredericton. 

 City magnates, Provincial and Dominion Parliamentarians, and 

 University men vied with each other to do us honour. We drove, 

 an imposing procession, with a piper in full highland costume 

 leading the way, to the University, which was examined, and from 

 the top of which we had a magnificent view of the town, which 

 stretches nine miles by four, and contains only a population of some 

 9000 inhabitants. It was not the first pretty Canadian town we 



