CHAPTER XIX 



Reflections — Conditions of success — Social environment — 

 Tlie lonely life — Minimizing temptation — The Liquor Laws — 

 Local option — Native sports — The domination of commerce — 

 Belated literature and art — Canadian writers — Historians, 

 poets, and novelists — Religious zeal — Commercial expansion — 

 Insular sentiment — Cosmopolitan practice — Transatlantic 

 steam service — Returning through the St. Lawrence — The 

 closed and opened book — Changed times and manners- 

 Reading the riddle — Canadian Boat Song — Symbols in the 

 western sky — The last glimpse of the Golden West. 



IT is impossible to travel 10,000 miles through 

 Canada and study its great natural resources, 

 mark the civil and commercial development that has 

 taken place, without arriving at definite conclusions. 

 The mental crystallization of such observations 

 and reflections has been reserved for my closing 

 words. 



Canada offers exceptional opportunities to young 

 men and women of intelligence and industrious 

 habits. It is no place for the indolent, impatient or 

 physically weak. The goal of success is practically 

 certain, but the road to it is often rough, and it is 

 possible to faint by the way. Labour is so scarce 



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