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that there is no more desirable customer than the 

 workman and his family, and that in countries of 

 great natural resources the place which labour 

 selects to-day is the industrial centre of to-morrow, 

 and in such places land-values are sound and certain 

 to increase. The Prairie Provinces, Vancouver 

 Island, and the twin cities of Fort William and 

 Port Arthur mark the chief industrial districts in 

 Canada. Stock, meat, fish, poultry, eggs, vegetables, 

 flowers and fruit of the berry order may all be 

 produced with a little trouble within a reasonable 

 feeling distance of many of the chief centres in 

 these districts of Canada, and sold at a highly 

 remunerative price. It is true that the winter is 

 severe in the Prairie Provinces, but the commercial 

 farmer should bear in mind that, although in a 

 very few years her commercial farm should yield 

 her a pleasure farm, it must be long waiting before 

 the pleasure-farm could yield her the value of the 

 commercial undertaking. 



Never has the opening for the woman on the 

 land in Canada been so easy or so full or promise 

 as just now in the hour that Canada, in spite of all 

 her gifts, is shining through the film of a breath of 

 suspicion, which no more emanates from her pure 

 and splendid self than the burst of noisy enthusiasm 

 that preceded it. Neither one nor the other can 

 affect the value of her matchless natural resources. 

 Whichever way one tests her values Canada is rock- 

 bottom. If she can hit hard, she strikes to urge 

 and wounds to heal. True daughter of a new day, 

 she has the energy and will-power of health and 

 strength and self-knowledge. Less tender yet 

 passionately loving is this virgin side of the Great 



