xiv. Contents. 



Chapter LIV. 



THE QUESTION OF IMMIGRATION. 



PAGE. 



The Exodus from the Countries of Europe — Canada Getting Ready to 

 Receive a Population — Political and Commercial Union — Millions in 

 the Old World yet to Come to the New — British Columbia as a Field 

 for Immigration — The North- West 528 



Chapter LV. 

 a nobleman's view of the north-west. 



A Graphic Description of the Vast Prairie Region — Future Homes of 

 Millions of People — The Canadian Zone and Transcontinental Trade — 

 Opinions of the Marquis of Lome — The Future of Canada 536 



Chapter LVI. 



IMMIGRATION AND THE HUDSON'S BAY ROUTE. 



Contrast between Travelling from Europe to the North-West by the St. 

 Lawrence and the Hudson's Bay Route — The Advantages of the Latter 

 — The Distance Saved and the Pleasures Enjoyed — Proposed Special 

 Immigration Steamships 554 



Chapter LVII. 



THE GROWTH OF CANADA AND IMPERIAL FEDERATION. 



Growth in Population, Trade and Commerce — Extention of Territory — 

 Consolidation — Confederation Cemented by the Means of Interpro- 

 vincial Commerce — The Era of Nation-building — The Great Railroads 

 — The Hudson's Bay Route — Its Advantages to Canada and Great 

 Britain — Imperial Federation 568 



APPENDIX. 



Lieutenant A. R. Gordon's Report of the Hudson's Bay Expedition, with 



Comments 583 



