434 Our North Land. 



but two or three years' experience, but they bear testimony to the 

 suitableness of the country for farming and stoc'k raising, to even 

 a greater extent than the settlers in that Province. Indeed, one 

 cannot find among all the people who have settled in the North- 

 West, a single farmer or stock raiser who has a word to say against 

 the country. They are all more than satisfied with it, and would 

 not change for any other country under the sun. Of late the 

 people have experienced, a great deficiency in railway communica- 

 tion, and have suffered in consequence ; and from this, more than 

 from any other cause, the progress of the country has been kept 

 back; but with the construction of branch railways, for which the 

 Government have made provision, a great drawback will be 

 removed, and immigration will again set in. Not, however, until 

 full arrangements have been made for the construction of the 

 Hudson's Bay Railway, and the establishment of the Hudson's Bay 

 Route to Europe, will the old-time prosperity of the Canadian 

 North-West be restored. 



