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to the fine varied display of the natural products of the North Country shown 

 in the " Settler's Home " on the grounds, the Agricultural Department next door 

 had, free to all, a moving picture show, exhibiting on the screen all the big 

 industries in Northern Ontario, such as mining, lumbering and agriculture. 

 They had also scenes of summer resorts, with lovely lakes and streams adjoining 

 the hotels, and fish being drawn from the water by rod and line. 



Now that the all-absorbing war is over, we look for a new influx of settlers 

 into the gigantic land of great inducements entitled Northern Ontario. Its soil 

 and climate are similar to Manitoba's; millions of fertile acres await the plough; 

 immense profitable forests are ready for the axe and the lumber mill; great gold 

 and silver and other mines are calling for further capital and labour; mighty 

 water powers are proclaiming the coming day of utilized electric energy; and 



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$100,000 Pile of Pixlpwood in Northern Ontario. 



fisheries and hunting fields are offering profit and fascination to romantic minds; 

 thousands of miles of railway and colonization roads interlace the land; big 

 industries are already going: demonstration farms, with district representatives, 

 are there to instruct and aid the settler; and cities, towns and villages, with 

 schools and churches, have risen and continue to rise, as evidences of modern 

 civilization. 



That vast land is near, it is within the bounds of the Province of Ontario, 

 and it is 330,000 square miles in area, six times larger than England. Let the 

 prospective settler look at it and consider it well. It is worth while. 



Since the preceding paragraphs were written the armistice has been signed, 

 and as one of its indirect effects the immediate outlook in regard to colonization 

 has been changed in a very marked degree. In every programme of reconstruc- 



