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CHAPTER IX 



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Through prairies to Rockies — Portage le Prairie — Regina — 

 Government ottices and mounted police — Climate — Growth 

 of railways — Si5katchewan Province — Census returns of 

 industries — Moose Jaw — Alberta Province — Uncultivated 

 millions — Picturesque forests and streams — The home of the 

 bufifalo — Four great rivers — Misconceptions of climate — The 

 heat line — The " chinook " — Wild grasses — Cattle rearing — 

 Cereal productions — Exhibition medal awards — Wheat 

 returns — Clover — Sheep and wolves — Horse breeding — 

 Champions at the World's Fair — Calgary — Democratic 

 principles — Ranching and lumbering — The Bow and Kana- 

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CHAPTER X 



Prairie conflagrations — Outposts of the Rockies — Drab flats and 

 purple crags — In the glacier track — Geological action — The 

 Three Sisters — Between Canmore and Bankhead — The 

 National Park — Surviving specimens of big game — Rundle 

 Mountains — Minnewauka Lakes — Laggan — Lakes in the 

 Clouds — The glacier region and its rivers — Hector monument 

 — The Kicking Horse River — A great engineering feat — 

 Douglas pines — Victims of forest fires — The Selkirks — The 

 track of the avalanche — The Eagle River — The Fraser and 

 Thompson — The Pacific — The flora of prairie and mountains 

 — Vancouver — Shipping and trading ..... 146 



CHAPTER XI 



British Columbia — Mineral products — Dr. Dawson's report — 

 Development — Gold— ^'icissitudes of mining — Cupper and 

 zinc — Percentages— The "Lucky Jim" — Marble quarries — 

 Portland cement — Petroleum — Demand for a government — 

 Constitution — The Kootenay district — Lumbering — Yale 

 district — Railway extension — Lillooet — The climate — 

 Tlirough the Yellow Head Pass— The Athabasca River— Brule 



