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perienced in the same period. Calgary, Maple 

 Creek, Moosejaw, Saskatoon, Regina, Revel- 

 stoke, Edmonton on the Saskatchewan, West- 

 minster, and particularly Vancouver, all have 

 been blessed with a prosperity beyond the 

 wildest dreams of the average citizen of twenty 

 years ago. The question may well be asked, 

 how has it come about that this unprecedented 

 growth and expansion of a new empire to the 

 north of the United States has proceeded along 

 a constant and well-developed line? 



The answer is not a difficult one. 



First, by the cultivation of the ground by 

 the residents and the ever-incoming hordes of 

 farmers — men of capacity in the tilling of 

 the extended fertile wheat belts of land that 

 were to be had for a price almost akin to noth- 

 ing. Next, by the ease with which capital 

 could be obtained from the Mother Country, 

 "the tight little island" called England, to 

 finance the various enterprises made neces- 

 sary by the ever-increasing population, and 

 third, by the opening up of new sections of 

 virgin land to modern methods of scientific 

 farming. 



Another reason may be found in the fact 

 that while Canada cannot boast of having 

 nearly as many laws on her statute-book as 



