8 RANCHING IN THE CANADIAN WEST 



you show signs of having gained a little experience 

 under his direction. 



When sailing from these shores you should book 

 straight through to either Swift Current, Maple 

 Creek, Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, or Macleod. They 

 are all on the Canadian Pacific Railway (the first 

 three on the main line), and are important towns 

 well in the ranching centres, and between them are 

 plenty of smaller ones to choose from, in one of 

 which you are bound to find employment if you go 

 the right way about it. 



Friendly Advice. 



A little friendly advice on one or two points that 

 would be of real value to him, would do no harm to 

 the emigrant, provided he will only follow it. Canada 

 is essentially a democratic country, and a man's 

 status in life is determined there, not by the length 

 of his genealogical tree, but by that of his purse, or, 

 to be more exact, the number of dollar bills in his 

 pocket-book. Do not, therefore, when you arrive 

 at the dollar-a-day hotel at which you elect to stay, 

 and find yourself in what you consider rough com- 

 pany, crawl into your shell, answer in monosyllables 

 with haughty mien, or utterly ignore the kindly 

 person who may address a remark to you, as I have 



