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" [-^ V /' f^ Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904 CANADA 1T» HISTORY, PRODUCTIONS AND NATURAL RESOURCES PRBI'ARXn BV GliORGK JOHNSON, D.C.L., F'.SS. (Hon.) I'NDKK THK DIRKCTION OK THE HONOURABLE SYDNEY FISHER MINISTER OK AORICULTURK, CANADA DRPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OV CANADA, OTTAWA 1904 fV" ii Table of Contents Extent of Canada Short History ok Canada Ci.iMATK OF Canada PoPi'i.ATioN OH Canada — AlK)rij{inal Other Poi.iTicAi. Constitution— Federal Provincial Public Lands— Dominion Provincial Public Debts — Federal Provincial Public Revenues and Kxpknditurks Education Crime Industries of Canada- Extractive Industries : Agriculture Fisheries Forest Mining Constructive Industries Transportation — Canals Railways . . Shipping . . Auxiliaries ok Transport : Rankin); . . Postal Service Telegraphs . . Telephones Insurance Navigation Securities Trade and Commerce Cities Newspapers Animal Like and Hunting Grounds PAGE 1-4 4-27 27-39 40-47 47-5' 51-56 56-5S 58-65 65-68 68-69 70 71-74 75-78 78-82 82-91 91-95 95-100 100-114 114-U9 120-125 ''25-' 31 13'-I33 I 33- '36 '36-137 '37 '38 '38-'4i 141-142 142-150 I5'-I58 158-161 161-176 To THE Hon. Sydney Fisher, M.P., P.C, Minister of Agriculture and Statistics. Sir, — 111 preparing under your instructions a liandbook of Canada for tlit I.ouisiana Purchase Exposition. 1904. I have (.ndcavoured to give infuruiation about the Dominion which will be useful both to the studei. .d to the general public, to those whose avocations lead them to gather facts for use in enlightened discussion, and to those who seek in- \ formation for their own purposes. The facts about Canada, as about any country, are best presented in a statistical form when the space at command i.> limited. I have attempted to ^ake such selection of facts as will illustrate the development of the country, chiefly during the period of the Union by virtue of which we became one country from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 1 have the honour to be. Sir, Your obedient servant, GEORGE JOHNSON, Statistician, F.S.S. {/ion.) Ottawa, Feby., 1904. CANADA GEOGRAPHY. Jacques Cartter, of St. Malo, sailed up " the great river " '" 1534. Rave it the name it bears, and wrote in his journal tl'.at the natives called the place, in which they had estab- li.shed themselves for the time being, Canata, the meaning of which, as subsequent investigations have shown, is " collection of wigwams." In the slightly changed form, Canada, the word is now applied to that portion of the North American continent not included in the United States of North and Central America and Mexico. This northern region, which faces three oceans, contains 3745.574 square miles of continental area, including the Arctic Archipelago, the area of which has not been deter- mined, but may be estimated at 500,000 square miles. A* 'fferent times in its history this country has been divifi "o Provinces and Districts. At present there are sixteen hese divisions. Eleven of them have, in part, water foi meir boundary; five are wholly in the interior. Four of the eleven border on the Arctic Ocean. One looks out on the Pacific. Four are bounded on their sea- ward side by the Hudson Bay, and four are washed by the Atlantic Ocean and its great estuarial sea, the Gulf of St. Lawrence. All the sixteen Provinces and Districts are well watered, the rivers and lakes of Canada being on a scale commen- surate with the vastness of the country. The River St. Lawrence penetrates the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, in a southerly and westerly direction, for a navigable distance of over 2.300 miles tron\ the ocean. It has tnbiit.'iry rivers, such as the Ottawa, with a total length of 780 miles, the St. Maurice, the Saguenay, the Manicouagan, the Trent, the du Loup, the Richelieu and many others. t CANADIAN HANDBOOK The lacustrine expansions connected with th'- St. Lawrence and its tributaries arc numerous, and many are of great size. Lake Superior has a water surface area of 31,800 square miles: Lake Huron 23,200; Eric 10,030; (Ontario 7,260; Ncpigon 1.450; Lake St John 366; Lake Simcoe 300; Lake St. Clair 445, and there are other smaller lakes, making up an area of over 75,000 square miles of Canadian lakes connected with the St. Lawrence. The Provinces of the East, or the Acadian region, have rivers of large size. The St. John River drains an area of 26,000 square miles, one half of which is in the Canadian Province of New Brunswick. Other rivers of considerable magnitude are the Restigouche and the Miramichi. West and north of the St. Lawrence River and its tribu- taries are many rivers of large size. In the Territories and Manitoba are the Mackenzie (2,400 miles in length), the Copper Mine and Great Fish Rivers, which flow into the Arctic Ocean; the Saskatchewan River (1,500 miles) ; the Hod River and its tributary, the Assiniboine, which flow into I akc Wiimipeg, discharging thence through the Nelson River and the Churchill ; the Haye and other rivers, which flow into the Hudson Bay, draining into it the waters of an area estimated at 370,000 square miles. In British Columbia arc the Eraser River and the Columbia (1,200 miles), and in the Yukon District is the Yukon River, which carries off the surplus waters of a great tract of country in Canada before flowing into the sea on the western side of the United States District of Alaska. Connected with these and other rivers are lakes of large size. Lake of the Woods (1,500 square miles), Lake Manitoba (1,900), Great r.ear Lake (11,200), Great Slave Lake (10,100), Athabasca (4,400), Winnipeg Lake (9,400), Winnipegosis (2,030). The principal Mountains of Canada are the Rocky Mountains- in the west, which extend in Canada from the Arctic Ocean to the Dnited States, and contain the highest praks in Canada ; among the chief being Mount Robsou, 13,700 feet high. CANADIAN HANDBOOK » From one of the mountain peaks of the Rockies water falls into streamlets that carry it Into greater streams which find their way to the Arctic Ocean, to Hudson Bay and to the Pacific Ocean. Further west than the Rocky Mountains range is the Coast range, and oetwcen these are several ranges, the Selkirk and the Gold being the principal. Thus, in a general view, Canada consists of the moun- tainous region of the West, the prairie country between the Rockies and Hudson Ray, and the woodland region, com- prising the Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The width of these several belts east and west is : Mountain, 600 miles; Prairie, 1,000 miles; Woodland, 2,300 miles. The area of 3,745,574 s(iuare miles is divided for pur- piiscs of administration into the following Provinces and Districts : — PH0VI.\CK> .\ND l)l8THrtT» » Orijiiiiiil Conffdoratioii — ? Ontario I Qneljt'c f -Nova Scotia I New Brunswick I Provint'ea admitted — •I Manitoba British ('oliiinl)ia Prince Edward Itiiand . District f! created— Keewatin* As.7 " 1, iHf.r " 15. 1870 " 20, 1871 " 1, 1S73 Apr. 12, 1H7« Mhv 17, 1K,S2 ••" 17, 18S2 " 17, 1882 " 17, 1^82 .FunelS, 1898 Oct. 2, 1895 " 2, 1895 " 2, 1895 Totals. .Vkea, SijrAKE Mii.Ks Water 411,354 10,117 3tiO 74 9,40.-) 2,439 13,419 600 3,772 3«2 8,805 649 29,548 5,H52 Land 220,508 341,7.58 27,911 «4,;!27 370,191 2,184 456,997 88,279 103,84() 101,521 243.160 196,327 6.32,634 349,109 500,0< Total 260,862 .•!51,873 21,428 27,985 7;!, 732 372,630 2,184 470,416 88,879 107,618 101,883 251,W5 196,976 5H2. 182 3-i4,9*il .500,000 125,7.5.5 !3,619,819 : 3,745,574 ■ The boHnilarlcs of those rtislricts wero changed l>y Order ii> Council luth Dec, 18 '7. CANADIAN HANDBOOK The Dominion is as large as the United States and the dependencies of Hawaii and the Philippine Islands. II. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF CANADA. There is so much that is unique in the history of Canada that the task of presenting an adequate conspectus of her past, within the narrow limits imposed, is far from being one easy of accomplishment. The most that can be done .> to bring under review some of the leading incidents and personages and to indicate as far as possible their influence m moul.hng her liistory and determining the course of events. The history of Canada may be .livided into three periods: the first covering the discovery and exploration of the country; the sec-nd its occupation and settlement by the French; and the third its development as part of the British Empire. 1st Period.— The Discovery and Exploration of Canada. The Norse Sagas have been recognized in recent years r-s possessed of undoubted value as historical works " The narratives which tell us of Vinland and of Leif Eric's son are closely intertwined with the authentic history of Nor- uay and Iceland." From these Sagas of the tenth and eleventh centuries comes the record of the eariiest vovages of discovery on the north-eastern shores of this continent rhe movement of population from Norway, after the naval battle of Hafursfiord in 872, resulted in giving Iceland in a few years a population of 50,000 souls. Among these was a settler named Gunnbjorn. who. in 876, was driven by a fierce western storm to Greenland, where he and lus crew [.assed the winter, returning to Iceland in the following spring. The story of their adventure-" lingered among the firesides of the homes of Iceland for many a long year 'J •A 5: CANADIAN -HAflDBOOK t and after a century harl passed, Kric the Red, being out- lawed for killing ;• neiKlibour in a brawl, resolved to spend the years of his banishment in searching for the western land associated with Gunnbjorn's adventure. He left Iceland in 983, and in three years' time had explored Lhe south-cast side of Crecnland and. following the shore round Cape Farewell, had examined a portion of the west side where he found in one of its deep fiords a place for a home' Rcturnmg t.. Iceland he pn>ved himself so goo.l an emigra- tion agent that he soon left with 25 vessels. I le encountere.l storms, and lost eleven of his fleet. The remainder, carry- ing four or five bun.lred j.ersons. arrived safely at the .selected si>ot. The colony was successfully planted, and for four hundred years the descendants lived and laboured and loved on the west coast of the land Eric ha.l named .reenland Durmg many years communication was constant between the coloni.sts and the Mother Isle. Among those vxho accompanied Eric was one Hcrjulf, who, on one occa- sion, went to Iceland on a lengthenc.l visit. His son .jarm thought he, too. would cross over to Iceland to see his father. Landed there he found that his father had left tor Creenland ; sailing after him Bjarni was borne by con- trary winds far to the sc.uth. making after many days an unknown lan.I. He ,„rned to the north, and in eight or l-n days sighted the well-knoun fiord on the Greenland Coast. Naturally there was much speculation about the unknown land Bjarni had seen, and some years after I.eif. the son of Lnc. sailed in the .summer time of the year ,000 southward Hat "rock t'."' »° \^r'" ''"^ P'^"*'^""^ ^°^'^^^d ^ith Hat rock. Ihis land he called Heluland or Slate ..and Continuing his voyage of discovery, he arrived at a lanK KTapi-s in ahmi.laiur, I'ru' i;»ll«''l ''"• l''^"*' \ '"'i"'"!. :""' tlu-n- siKi. tlu- \vint»T. ivturiiitiK with a tarn.' "f hiiitl..r t.. (ir.iiilan.l tlu- f..ll..wiiin year llu- ...i.im.miiati..n with a limiber cuiintrs , tlni> ..piiii;.!. luiiliiuuil from yoar to year till, in tlif spring of 1007. Thorriiui K;irl-.cfiii r«'soIvf. ilu- hi-t authority. Dr. Storm, condiKlcs after careful investi),';!' loiis that Vin- land was thai part of Canada knowii as Nova Scotia, and that these Norse VoyaRei- ■iailed alon^ the Labrador o-ast, and the Xewfonndl.in.l coa-t, and crossing' the straits h.id attempted colonization in Acad' i. The practical results of these early v.'ya(je< of iliscovery were of little value. The fact?, were in the SaK:as; but Southern Kun pe, having little or no comnumic;:tioM with the countries in the north, ne\er Kirne.l of the existence of the New Continent. It was not till John .fud Sebastian Cabot, father and son, had persuaded Henry V'H. to com- mission them to make a voyage of discovery by sailing; westward that \'i!dand was rediscovered in 140", the land- fall beinp, as seems fully established, at C. :'e liretou. In the following year, Sebastian Cabot nuide another voyage, going into high latitudes for the ])urpose of discovering a north-west passage to the Indies. On this voyage he sailed as far north as Hudson Stniits. AnimateK I'Voiii tliat tiiiM' liiiwanl the liili fi>lirrif,s nf llu- \iu I'oiituilaiKl Hankn ami tlic ^liorcs <.l' tlir (iulf l»f»aiiii; llur magiu't «lra\viiijj tlie hardy I'.rftuii, r.a-.i|nc, N'..riii.iii ami West of EtiKl<'iii*t fishfrnifn to our coasts. Ca|>c I'.roton, a name piihlishi-tl on tlic earliest maps, tlerivi'i traiisfirriujj the names ol tliiir Eastern liomes to tliis outineiit. None t»f the voyages thus taken, however, liad any re- ference to the settlement of the country. It was reserved lor France to make the first attempt in this direction, when, in the year 1518, the Daron de I.ery fitted out an expedi- tion with that end in view. Unfortunately the fates were not propitious to this venture, and beyond the landing of some horses on Sable Island, wiure thev multiplied greatly and exist in droves to the present day, nothing was accomplished. France had as yet done little in exploring or occupying any portion of this boundless continent, whose wealth was filling the coffers of her rivals, and Francis I. resolved to claim a share of the prize. " Shall the Kings of Spain and Portugal," he exclaimed, "divide an America between tliem? I would like to see the clause in father Adam's will bequeathing that vast inheritance to them." Under his direction, therefore, in 1324, Verrazano, a Florentine, was sent forth. He ranged the coast from Florida to 50 degrees north latitude, and annexed on behalf of France the entire region previously explored by the Cabots, designating it " N'ew France." 'Iho rival claims* arising from these ex- plorations were the chiot grounds of the long and Moody conflict which later on was wageil between Cireat i'.ritain and France for the possessi'ii of fh\s magnificent region beyond the seas, and the mariti'; c supremacy tliat went with it. Thus fitfully and feebly were .he 'irst attempts to found settlements on the North American coasts carried on up to the close of the first quarter of the sixteenth century, and, it CANADIAN HANDBOOk as we have seen, without anything practical or permanent being achieved. and Period. — Occupation and Settlement by the French. In the year 1534 when France had somewhat rallied from the disaster inflicted upon her during recent wars, fresh enterprises were undertaken in the New World, and on the 20th April of that year the real discoverer of Canada proper, Jacques Cartier, a native of St. Malo, was sent out with two small vessels of about 60 tons each. Sailing through the Strait of Belle Isle, he scanned the barren coast of Labrador, and almost circunlnavigated Newfound- land. Turning thence south-westward, he passed the M.nj^dalen Islands, and on a glorious July dav entered the large bay, for which the intense heat suggested the name of " des Chaleurs " it hears to this day. On the rocky headland of Gaspe he landed and, erecting a huge cross bearing the fleur-de-lis of France, took possession of the countn' in the name of his sovereign Francis I. Learning from the natives of the existence of a great river leading so far up into the interior that " no man had ever traced it to its source," he sailed up the Gulf of St. Lawrence until he could see land on either side. But the season being well advanced, he deemed it prudent to go no further until he should return next summer. Delighted with the report his faithful lieutenants broueht back, the French king, in the following year, fitted Cartier out with three fine vessels, of which the largest was 120 tons burthen, and despatched him with the special blessing of the bishop of St. Malo and with a commission from himself tc " form cttlemcnts in the country and open traffic with the native tribes." The little squadron reached the mouth of the St. Lawrence about the middle of July, and, the loth of August being the festival of St. Lawrence, Cartier gave the name of that saint to the small bay in which he then was, since when it has extended to include tlic entire gulf and river. s 3 ■< iS < O CANADIAN HANDBOOK Continuing up the noble stream, lie came, on .September I 7th, to a fertile, vine-clad island, which he nanwd the Isle of Bacchus. It is now the Island of Orleans. Here Don- nacona, the Sachem of the Algonquin nation, made him a state visit, accompanied by no less than five hundred fol- lowers in twelve huge canoes ; and seven days later, having made up his mind to winter in the country, Cartier anchored his fleet at the mouth of the St. Charles river, where stood the Indian town of Stadacona, beneath the high beetling l>romontory now crowned with the historic ramparts of Quebec. Impatient to explore the river stretching out so grandly before him, Cartier advanced with fifty men in his smallest vessel. But the sand-bars of Lake St. Peter compelled him to take to his boats. In these he pressed onward, until on October 2nd he reached the populous Indian town of Hochelaga, nestling beneath the wood-crested height which with characteristu: loyaltv he called " Mont Royal," since anglicized into Montreal. The friendly natives thronged the shore by hundreds, and received the pale-faced strangers with manifestations of the utmost delight, loading their boats with lavish presents of corn and fish. From his kindly hosts, Cartier learned of the existence, far to the west and south, of inland seas, broad lands and mighty rivers, then an almost unbroken solitude, now the home of a pros- perous people. After three days of pleasant intercourse, Cartier re- turned to Stadacona and wintered there, his little force uffering severely from insufficient food and inadequate clothing, being also plagued with scurvy of a malignant type, whose violence neither processions, vows nor litanies availed to stay. The following spring he returned to France, taking with him, much against their will. King Donnacona and nine of his chiefs as living trophies of his expedifion. Five years elapsed before Cartier returned to Canada as Captain General and Master Pilot. Associated with him was the Sieur de Roberval, whom the French monarch had 10 r-ANADTAN ITANDBOOK created Lieuteiiaiit-deiural and Viceruy of Iiis ncwly- aeench and Indians twice — in July, 1744, by Abbe de Loutre, and in September, 1744, by Duvivier. It was taken, sacked and abandoned twice, once by pirates in 1690 and once by United States revolutionary forces in 1781. It may be considered the nursery from whose small but vigorous beginnings sprang the two branches of the two great races which after a hundred and fifty years of fierce fightings around Port Royal for supremacy through the arts of war, are now, and have been for a century and a third, joint proprietors of Canada, having settled down to iioI)ler rivalries in the arts of peace, with the one common object of making the land they live in a .shining example of the prosperity that surely comes from concord and well cemented union. Passing fnuii Acadia to Canada proper, e find Cham- plain ill 1608 once more ascending the broad St Lawrence, and on the 3r(l of July, beneath the craggy heights of ntu'bcc, Ipving the foundation of one of the most famous u CANADIAN HANDBOOK cities of the new world. The colonists soon were com- fortably housed and the land cleared for tillage. Thence- forward, during many years, the history of Quebec was the history of Canada, and its annals contain little beyond the pathetic struggles of the colonists with the difficulties of their situation, and the dangers which constantly menaced them from their Indian foes. For the intense hostility of the Indians, the French were themselves wholly to blame. We have already seen how Cartier's treatment of Don- nacona recoiled on him ; and now Champlain, under stringencv of circumstance through necessity of dividing the Indian tribes for his own preservation, incurred the implacable hatred of the powerful Iroquois nation, by join- ing forces with the Algonquins in an attack upon one of their strongholds. The temporary advantage thereby gained was dearly paid for by a century and a half of rapine, plunder and nameless barbarities. The Prince of Conde, Admiral Montmorency, and the Due de Ventado'ir became successively viceroys of Canada, but the valour, fidelity and zeal of Champlain commanded the confidence of them all. Dauntless and tireless, he explored the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers, warred against the Indians, visited the mother country again and again in the interests of his beloved country, strengthened the defences of Quebec ; in fact, was the heart and soul as well as the head of the entire enterprise. While he was Governor of Quebec, the little town endured the first of the six sieges it has experienced in its eventful history. It was invested by Sir David Kirk, acting under instructions from the English court, and starved into an honourable surrender in the year 1629. But it turning out that peace had been concluded between the nations before the sur- render, by the treaty of St. Germain signed in 1632, the whole of Canada, Cape Breton and Acadie was restored to the French. Three years later, Champlain's busy life drew to a close, and on Christmas day the noble soul, whose character was more like that of knight-errant of mediaeval romance than that of a practical soldier of the seventeenth )m- ;ce- the the of ced of me. on- der ing the )in- of iby of the da, led he red ind led as vas the It 3ns blc ace iir- the to ew Dse val ith CANADIAN HANDBOOK ceiiliiry, passed peacefully away at the Castle of St. Louis, which he himself had built upon the summit *of the cliffs ot Quebec. Champlain had many successors in the arduous office of governor of New France, but none of like spirit (until Fron- tenac came in 1672), and the colony grew very slowly, scarce one Hundred Europeans being added to it during the five years succeeding Champlain's death, while in 1663, when the charter of the Hundred Associates, a company which promised much and performed little, was annulled, the total foreign population did not exceed two thousand souls. The chief reason of this slow growth, as compared with the rapid advance made by the English colonies in Virginia and New England, was that, under Jesuit direction, far more interest was taken in the conversion of the savages than in the colonization of the country. From 1632 to 1682 priests of the Jesuit, Recollet and other orders, tra- versed the land, undaunted by trackless forests, terrible privations, merciless foes and appalling loneliness, pushing the work of the church wherever human beings were to be found and souls saved. The Recollets were the first of Europeans to pierce the wilderness lying between the St. Lawrence and the Bay of Fundy. Within five years of their coming we find their sandalled feet on the Nepisiguit and on the St. John, on Cape Sable and at Port Royal. When Champlain made his expedition to the Huron country the Recollet Father LeCaron went ahead of him in his zeal, and was the first to carry the cross to the tribes of the great Laurentian Lakes. The Jesuits were the pioneers of civilization in the far West. Their annual reports con- stitute a perfect mine of priceless information on early Canadian history. Conspicuous among them were Peres Hennepin, I^alcmant, Jogues, Brebeuf. Chaminot, Mar- quette and Dablon, and many a priest heroically laid down liis life rather th.in swerve aside, or turn back from the forward course he believed God had called him to pursue. mW fti S4 CANADIAN HANDBOOK In the Spring of 164^ tlir fnundations of ^^ontrcal, the future commercial nictrofxilis of Canada, were laid by Maisonncuvc with all the pious pomp and chiirchlv cere- monial possible amidst such primitive surroundinps, and thus onward into the heart of the country civilization slowly made its way, fightinf; with the relentless Indians for every foot of the passage. In 1672 the Jesuit IVrc Alhanel crossed from the River St. Lawrence to the bottom of the Hudson Ray, and took formal iK)ssession for the King of France. Representa- tives of the King of England were there before him. In later times the question of priority of discovery was hotly debated. The occasion produced the man, and during the years of 1686- 1697, Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Ibcrville, a member of a family of fourteen children, three of whom were killed in service for their Prince and four of whom were governors olf forts or provinces, began his remarkable career by crossing the wilderness between the St. Lawrence River and Hudson Hay and capturing Moose Factory from the English. He followed up his initial victory with such spirit that he fought many battles by land and by sea, one of the latter, that in Hudson Bay in 1607, being described by the best authorities, French and English, as the fiercest and bloodiest battle of the war. When in 1697 he finally lift the Cireat Bay and returned to France he could tell of six forts and seven governors of the Hudson Bay Company captured by him, besides his exploits in New England, Acadia and Newfoundland. In 1672, the same year in which I'cre All)anel visited Hudson Bay, the Count dc Frontcnac was appointed Governor, and, next to Champlain, he is in every way the most conspicuous figure among the early holders of that office. The chief glory of his administration was the spirit of daring exploration and discovery by which it was char- acterized, the grandest achievement of all being the explora- tion of the Mississippi Kiver and the (!rcat West under Joliet, Marquette, La Salle and Hennepin. The sufferings CANADFAN IIANDnoOK IS nf the colonies from tlic Iiiclians, more especially the Troqtiois, were terrible durin" this period, and at times it >.o»'med as if these would really .sticcc'< (it the Quebec Gazette, a newspaper which continued in 'existence till 10 or 12 years ago. IK <"AN.\I>IAN H.\NI>BIX)K. While there \v;is, :is a matter dI course, a goixl deal oi friction between "the new subjects," as the F"rench were called, and the British settlers or "old subjects," yet under the temperate and judicious guidance of General Murray and Sir Guy Carleton matters proceeded hopefully and the country entered upon a career of prosperity, rajiidly increas- ing in population and wealth. In th« year 1774, what was known as the Quebec Act was passed by the British Parliament. It extended the bounds of the Province from Labrador to the Mississippi, from the Ohio to the watershed of Hudson Bay. It estab- lished the right of the Frenoli to the observance of th«- Roman Catholic religion without civil disability, and con- firmed the tithes to the clergy, exempting, however, all Protestants from their payment. It restored the French civil code and established the English administration oi law in criminal cases. Supreme authority was vested in the Governor and a Council of from 17 to 23 members, the lat- ter being nominated by the Crown and consisting for the most part of jjcrsons of British birth. This Act gave profound dissatisfaction, not only to the English-speaking minority in Canada, who considered that their rights had been ruthlessly sacrificed, but also to the American colonists, who complained bitterly over the tran*.- fer to Canada of the country north and west of the Ohi«' river, for which they had so long and variously struggled Despite all protests and appeals, the Act, which naturally gave great delight to the French population, continued t>' be the rule of the province for seventeen years. The colonists were now called upon to pass througli another war period — bloody but brief — and this time witli thtir own countrymen across tlie border. In the year fol lowing the passing of the Quebec Act, the long smouldering firts of secession in the American colonics burst into flame On April 19th, 1775, the "minute men ' of Concord and [^exington "fired the shot heard round the world," and tli. War of Independence began, whicli ended in the loss t. England of some of her .American colonies. One of tin CANADIAN HANDBOOK. i i» first steps taken by thu Sc.essionisls was to capture Ticon- deroga and Crown ['.,int on Lake Clianiplain. and thus possess the gateway to Canada. Forts St John and Chambly soon followed, and uii the uth November Montreal suc- cumbed. But the tide turned, when, flushed with their first successes, the Americans essayed the capture of Quebec, two daring attempts resulting only in disastrous failure. On the 4th July. 1776, the revolting colonies declared their in- «lepennal Bill was pass«d by th« British governtnent. It divided Canada into two pnv vinces, known as Upp^r and I>jwer Canada. Each province received a separate Legislature, consisting of a Legislative Council appointed by the Crown, a Lejgislativ.- .Vssembly fleeted by the people, and a gcxvernor appointed by the ( rown and responsible onlv to k. The Assembly was elected ^,»r four years, and in it was vested the jx^wer of taising a revenue for roads, bridges, schfMils and similar public services. A body which soon became 'ibnoxious to the people was the Executive Council. It c-nsistcd M salaried officials of the Crown and judges, who were the confidential advisers of the C.ovcrnor. altliougli not account- able for their acts either to him or to the Legislative As- sembly. Thev generally held seats in the legislative Coun- cil, and virtualh- controls the legislation bv their pre- ilominant, yet irresponsible influence. The new constitution, as Fox predicted, worked baur members, elected by the people. The Executive Council or Cabinet comprised eight members, and was responsible to the Legislature. It was presided over by flie Governor-General, who held Ivs appointment from the Crown. The control of all public 1- ■f. •■t. . i CANADIAN HANI)Mf the Colonies in some form of federal combination. After Ihcir independence had been secured, the New England and Southern States combined in a federal Union. The belief that this system was the best for countries of an extended area and sparse population was entertained by public men who remained tine to the monarchical principles. Colonel Morse, who was appointed by the British Government to report on the best methods to be adopted in the changed Condition of things consequent on the success of the Ameri- can revolution, advocated, in 1783, a union of all British .Vorth America "for the preservation of the fragments of I'.ritish power on this continent." The division of the Cana- dian Province into Upper and Lower, however, under the Constitutional Act of 1791, destroyed for a time the idea of nnion. Lower Canada, people 1 largely by the French, de- sired to retain the laws respecting land and property to which the people had been used. Upper Canada, settled I:irgely by United Em[)irc Loyalists and people of th- Tt-ig Ii^h-si)caking race desired the laws to which they had b • 1: accustomed. There was no way to meet the views of both rxccpt by constituting two provinces where one had been. ^1 14 CANADIAN HANOBnoK. So, f jf nearly a lialf century, the two provinces developed .ilongsitlc of each t)tlicr, each piirsiiing the course its own people 'leemcd best. Tn tiiiu' the system of povernmcnt which suited the in- fant Colonies pave eviilcnci- of Jieinp nnsnitcd to their more I that they were prepared for st If jrovernment to its fullest extent. Investigations bs lord Durham and other com- petent men convimotl the Home (iovernment th.it the time lor otisolidation had arn>cd. The I'nion Act of 1840 was the !\siilt. and in 1841 the two provinces, separated for 50 year'^. canu' together apain, as we have seen. One of the most important .^cts of the first I'arliament was the Muni cipal .\ct. by wliich each township, county, town, village and city I'lana^es its own local affairs and has pow^r to levy taxes for local improvements and local government. The devcloi)nu'nt of ilic Ignited Province o. Canada went sti.idily on. Rut in the evolution inted bv the Governor-in-Council. In 1899 the machinery v.as still further fitted for its work by the enlargement of the Council through the election of two representatives by the people. In up2, to complete the system, and bring it ii. harmonv with the several provincial systems, Yukon was given a representative in the Federal House of Commons, elected by its own people, and possessed of all the authority belonging to any other representative sitting in the House of Commons. From one end of Canada to the other, during all the years that the people have been developing a system of gov- einment suiting themselves, the loyalty of all to the British Crown has been the supreme and central idea. The first minister of Canada, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, said in a speech delivered in Paris in August, 1S97 • "^ '°ve the France CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 27 which gave us being ; I love the England which gave us liberty." Sir George Cartier conveyed the same idea whjn h( said he was an Englishman speaking French. III. ^1 CLIMA'l E. The British Empire has an area, roughlv speaking of i-,ofjo,ooo square miles, of which one-third is in North .America, one-third in the Antipodes, one-sixth in the tem- perate zone of Europe and Asia, and one-sixth within the tropics. If one portion of this great empire, enclosing within its ample bounds a fifth of the globe, has been decried be- cause of its intense heat, and another on account of its aridity, Canada can claim to be the greatest sufferer of all from its association in the popular mind with intense cold ; ".Siberian" and "Canadian" having long been interchange- able terms to denote the utmost severity of cold. The furs which have been distributed throughout England for gen- erations from many a Canadian stream, forest or plain, the possession of one side of the north pole, and the ownership of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains, have contributed to give Canada an Arctic name and a hyperborean reputation by IK, ireans in accordance with actual facts. When the French monarch signed the treaty which transferred Canada to Great Britain, he sought to lessen the importance of his rival's acquisition and to diminish the 'IfSree of the sacrifice the French nation was called upon to make, by exclaiming, while he signed, "after all, it's only a f( w square miles of snow." In official circles the expression found acceptance, and down to a comparatively recent date "'(• Fn king's estimate continued to be the belief of the b'st mtoimed in Europe. Not many years ago an eminent r-Mglish statesman referred to Canada as "those huge ice- Hound deserts of North America:" while the geographies of it CANADIAN HANDBOOK. the schools and the encyclopaedias of the libraries have in- variably represented Canada as doomed in preat part to eternrl sterility from the severity of its climate. Three decades ago a writer in Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of North America, c' ding with the physio- graphy of the continent, said : "The region north of *he St. Lawrence and of the great lakes is not to be regarded as having any very great value from the forest resources it affords"; this assertion being based upon the belief in the common notions about the severity of the climate. Last year (1903) the United States were supplied largely from this same region with forest products to the value of nearly nineteen million dollars. The expeditions sent to the north pole have had much to do with the continuai.ee of the.se strange misconceptions which ha/e persistently retained their position among the "iacts" relating to Canada's climate. According to Parry, the cold of Melville Island was so intense that hot water allowed to fall from the topmast reached the deck as hail : piercury could be fired as bullets from fowling pieces, ami balls of frozen almond oil, when fired at planks, pierced them and fell to the ground unbroken. Many other similar accounts have been published by veracious navigators respecting the Arctic slope of the Dominion, and these have been applied by a sweepinj; generalization to the whole count.-y till intensity of cold has been burned into the average European mind as the most striking characteristic of Canada. It can no more be denied that there arc regions of Canada where the frost never leaves the ground than it can be denied that there is a great American desert, stretching for several degrees o^f latitude between the Gulf of Mexico and the international boundary ; but the Dominion of Canada is so vast in extent that one part mav be cliarged with perpetual snow, while another is bached in almost perennial heat and sunshine. One part receives the coM atmosphere of the "Frozen Sea," another the humid air of the Atlantic, another the mild, genial breezes of the Pacifii , y. %. CANADIAN HANDBOOK. I ami Still a fourth has the surface of its soil baked by the lieat c.f tropical waters. In the extreme northern parts, vejfeta- tii.n is so stunted that the highest tree dots not reach a I liild's knee ; in the southern parts, vegetation is so luxurious that fruits and flowers grow with as much vigor a: in Italy or the south of France. r.etween these great extremes, all the cereals, grasses :md flowers of temperate regions are found, and as we pro- ceed northwards or southwards we meet an unbroken gra- .iation of vegetation. This country has, in fact, all the cli- mates of Europe from the Mediterranean to the Arctic Ocean ; as might be expected, seeing that it extends from the latitude of Rome, in Italy, to that of North Cape in Norway, and is of almost equal area. Climate is an extremely complex matter, and one that depends on a singular variety of conditions. Of these, the most manifest and inclusive are heat, rain, cloud, wind' and electrical conditions. They are, to a certain extent, depen- dent on each other, but ultimately they may be traced back to certain general causes, viz.: ist, position in latitude; 2nd, size and form of land; 3rd, elevation above the sea; 4th, form, position and elevation of neighbouring land ; 5th, na- ture and temperature of the nearest marine current; 6th, I'osition, distance and direction of the nearest continent. These points have all to be fully studied, as much in 'lealing with the climate of Canada as in discussing that of any other r untry. It is clear that climate is not a question ot latitu ! gitude ; that the South is not necessarily warm - \orth cold ; that the East wind does not iilways ' >• .matism ; that the South wind need not be iHit, or ti -vithwest be accompanied by rain. One good result has come from the long-endured slan- 'lenng of our Canadian climate ; great attention has been i;iven to meteorological investigations. The study of the science of climate has been stimulated by the determination .' Canada to present facts in place of assertions and wanton :^^pe^sions. The Meteorological Service of Canada has 339 nations, at which weather observations are taketi and ab- CANADIAN HANDBOOK, stracts forwariifd to the central offici- at Toronto. These stations are classified a.; chief station-^, and stations of thi first, second and third classi-s, according to the number and character of the observations taken. All Canadian reports arc forwarded to the United States Weather Bureau at Washington, which cftice in return supplies reports from United States stations. There are in the Dominion some 7,< stations at which storm signals are displayed, 31 being on the great lakes of Ontario, 40 on the Gulf of St. Lnwrenci and the Atlantic coast, and two on the Pacific coast. Daily, monthly, and yearly reports are published. Great Britain is one of earth's most favoured regions for wheat growing. It has a summer of about 60 deg. to 6_> t'cg. F. In the Northwest Territories t! c Dominion Gov- ernment maintains 16 stations v.here the temperature is daily recorded. Ten of the sixteen showed a mean summer temperature of 60 deg. to 65 (\cg. F. for the year 1902. In all these .stations the agents of the Canadian Govern- ment are engaged studying daily, and almost hourly, the climate of the country at places as widely apart as the nx)St easterly point of the southern shore of Hudson Straits, and Victoria in Vancouver Island. The records of the Hudson i3ay forts have been searched for "weather notes." The narratives of travellers have been closely scanned for references to the climate. From all these sources there is abundant evidence that Canada, climatically considered, is a country well fitted Europeans. Time has amply justified tlu conclusions of Malte Brun. "that Canada and t..^ other British possessions in Nortli America (now forming the Dominion), though apparentiv blessed with fewer physical advantages than the States ti> the south, contain a noble race, and are evidently reserve! for a lofty destination. Everything there is in proper keep- ing for the development of the combined physical and men- tal energies of nan. There are to be found at once the hardihood of character which conquers difficulties, the cli- CANADIAN HANDBOOK. U mate wliicli stimulate i\t'rtit)ii, and the natural advantages which reward eiiterprisi-. N'atnrc has marked out this country for cxalti-d destinii's." No one particular in her category of advantages is more effective as an instnnnciit t<> enable Canada to take the position thus declared, by an eminent authority, to be her's in the future, than her climate. Taking the conditions rcfe: Cil to as the true guides to (iiniato, we find that a large ponioij of Canada is in latitudes wliirli in Europe have jtroved tlic most favorable to the health of man. The mean temperature of the regions watered by the Moose and Abbitibi Rivers corresponds with tlic north of ICurope, being 65 deg. F. The regions drained !)> the nortiicrn parts of the Ottawa and by the Saguenay and tiie northern parts of Nova Scotia correspond with the south coast 01 England, Paris, the middle of Germany, and the south of Russia, being 60 deg. F., while 65 deg. F. repre- suits the summer temperature of the regions bordering ui)on the upper St. Lawrence Lakes, London, Toronto, Kingston, Montreal, the St. Lawrence to Quebec, and east- ward to Fredericton, the capital of the province 01 New Hrunswick. Altitude more than latitude makes climate, and in this respect Canada occupies a position superior to most re- !,Mons. According to Humboldt, Europe has a mean eleva- tion of 671 feet. South America of 1,132, Asia of 1,151, and North America of 748 feet. The Canadian part of North America is placed at 300 feet. The ascent from ocean to Lake Superior does not average more than si:, .iiches in a mile, and even this ascent i.^ not markedly noticeable till we proceed west\yard. Mont- real, the head of ocean navigation, reached only after pass- ing over several hundred miles of fresh surface water, is but eighteen feet above the level of the sea at low water, as it rolls under the lighter fresh water along the bed of its estuary. I'ANADIAN IIANI>IIooo square miles. Its temperature is 65 (leg. F. during summer ; in winter it is 3 deg. warmer than the waters of Lake Superior. The chain of fresh water lakes, which, almost without a break, extends between lati- tude 44.45 and latitude 51 north, and from longitude 75 to longitude 120, covers, together with the smaller lakes, an area of 130,000 square miles, and contains nearly one-half of all the fresh water on the surface of the globe. The moderating influences of these large bodies of water, which never freeze over, will be at once recognized. In the older settled portions of Canada the undoubted experience is, that the climate has been modified by the de- crease of the forest area and the draining of swamp lands. Malte Brun says "the same changes, as to climate, are tak- ing: place in Canada which were observed in Europe when the dark masses of the Hercynian forest were felled, and its ir.orasses drained by the laborious arms of the Germans, and the climate, becoming more mild, has undergone a change "f 8 deg. to 10 deg. on the average, since the eflForts of iMiropean industry were first applied to the cultivation of the country." 34 CANADIAN HANDBOOK. The number of centenarians, especially among the Cana- dians of French descent, whose ancestors for ten genera- tions have lived and died in Canada, attests the suitability of the climate to the European races ; as also do the facts that the weight of children at birth and the size at twenty- one years are far above the average of Europeans. During the insurrectionary movement in the Canadian Northwest, in March, 1885, men and boys were marched from the Niagara peninsula, and from all the cities between London and Halifax, without any special selection. Five thousand troops, with another thousand employees of various kinds, travelled in open box-cars over the Canadian Pacific Railway, marched across the "gaps" in the then un- completed railway, trudged through snow and slush by forced marches northwards from three points of the rail- way hundreds of miles distance from each other. They slept in tents without taking any extra precautions as re- gards health. Yet of the six thousand, during months ex- posed and going as far north as the 53rd parallel, not one man died from any disease traceable to the climate. There was complete immunity from disease. But, says some one, "while this is all true as regards the effect of the climate on human life, is it not a fact that vege- table life suffers? Is it not a fact that throughout the whole of Canada, while the mean temperature is equal to that of Europe, there are summer frosts which seriously diminish the chances of success for agrrcultural operations ?" This question has also been made the subject of careful investigation. Sir George Simpson says the vine is abundant on the Kaiuinistiquia River, a tributary of Lake Superior from the northwest, where also the tomato has been found growing wild. He also states that, in his day, buflfaloes roamed in countless herds in the region watered by the Saskatchewan. "The grass to feed them," says Sir George, "is rich and abundant, and the buffaloes winter there, together with the domestic animals taken thither for the use of the white man and the Indian." CANADIAN HANDBOOK, 35 1 Professor Macoiin found the cucumber ripening in the Peace River district in August. In the valley of the Ottawa tlie grape flourishes, and the census returns show that the yield of grapes in Canada, which for the year 1880 was 3,896,508 pounds, and for the year 1890, 12,252,331 pounds, was for 1900, 24,302,634 pounds. If you look through the ex- hibits from Canada, you will find apples, pears, peaches, and other fruit, which suggest a fine climate, better for such fruit than that possessed by any other part of the British Empire, and, if the price paid for Canadian apples in the London market is good evidence, better than any part of tiie United States. There is, beyond question, one drawback which, in the Northwestern Territories of Canada, though not to so great a degree as in the Western States to the south, makes the mean temperature of the summer lower than it would other- wise be, and at the same time destroys, to a certain extent, tlic accuracy of the deduction made from that mean tem- perature. That drawback is the occurrence in occasional years of a summer frost. Upon the fact of this occurrence, interested persons have commented on the climate for wheat raising. The experience of the early settlers in On- tario was similar to that of the early settlers in Manitoba. We never hear now of this as an objection to Ontario. Al- ready in the Prairie Province early planting has to a very considerable extent overcome the objection, as the wheat roaches in such event a period in its growth which enables 1! to withstand the sudden lowering of the temperature. The hard Fyfe wheat has been a most successful seed. With a splendid soil — an alluvial black loam with an .ivcrage depth of 20 inches, resting on a subsoil of clay, —with an average yield, based on 18 years' reports, of 19 Inishcls to the acre, and with practically eight days in the week, owing to the length of time the sun is above the horizon in those higher latitudes, it may be counted a cer- tainty that the energy and enterprise of the people will soon succeed in overcoming the one difficulty in the success- ful raising of wheat that has been experienced — a difficulty Ill M CANADIAN HANDBOOK. moreover which only in occasional years presents itself. The exhibits of Manitoba wheat and other grains will speak for themselves as to quality ; the yield of the harvest of 1902, equal to over 100,000,000 bushels, of which 53,000,000 bushels were wheat, will show that Canada is destined to take high place among the world's grain-growers, especially so when it is recalled that the crop of 1890 was but 26j4 million bushels, indicating an increase in a decade of nearly 300 per cent. That the wheat growers arc satisfied with their exper- ience is seen in the fact that in Manitoba, the area sown in wheat in 1903 was double that of 1900, and that in Northern Alberta the acreage in grains in 1902 was more than double that of 1898. The following table gives the average summer and yearly temperature at stations in the Dominion ^ f Canada, with the latitude, longitude and height above the sea. The temperatures are derived from ten years' observations and over, whenever practicable : — STATIONS V s 3 s 5 Sd a ' 2, 1 / Q British Oolumbia. Agassiz 40 14 Abbotsford 49 ?. Barkerville 5M 2 Carinanah, V.I 48 25 Donald 51 28 Duncan, V. 1 48 46 En-erby 50 32 French Creek, V. I ... . 49 20 Hazlemere 49 3 Kamloops 5041 Kuper Island 48 58 New Westminster 49 13 N. Nicomen 49 12 Nicola Lake 50 9 Port Simpson 54 34 River's Inlet 51 39 Si < ft. Mean Temperature Summer Year 121 31 52 60.8 47.8 122 16 61.5 48.4 121 35 4180 .55.4 36.6 124 18 130 55.9 47.2 117 11 2090 59.5 36.4 123 42 40 61.4 48.7 119 7 1180 64.3 44.4 124 38 61.0 47.6 122 43 60.3 48.4 120 29 1193 67.6 47.1 123 3S 62.7 49.4 122 54 330 63.3 50.0 122 2 59 63.0 49.1 130 39 61.9 42.2 130 26 2« 45.2 44.3 127 19 20 57.9 45.7 •J ' J J. •? 5V' - .s ..i.'.''^ ':.•'. r^:" \i .»*-:■.■ i.»ja V> 'i\_^y; J».i::i-»^'- •,i *?r>-' ... --fr.' 1 «=«i?<^.-' s^^- mi ^^Mt^-.L . '» '/i. t- ^ :i.l S'^^ 'mi.^ ^'#'. ^-- ■,,;:%$;• liz CANADIAN HANDBOOK. S7 STATIONS •S ? 2 2 J ,1 Mkan Tkmprrati'kk Sutiitiier Year British Colvmbia—Coh. Spence's Bridge . Stuart's Lake... Victoria, V.I Vernon N. W. Territories. BaUleford .... Banff Chaplin Calfary Kdniontun Henrietta Indian Head . . Moose Jaw Medicine Hat . Oonikup Pincher Creek , Parkland Prince Albert., yu'Appelle Kegina Svift Current . 60 14 52 41 51 10 50 27 51 2 53 33 51 22 Manitoba. -Aweme Brandon Bamardo (Ru.ssell). Channel Island Emerson Elkhom Fort Osborne Hillview Minnedosa Portage la Prairie '. Stony Mountain . . . Winnipeg, Ontario. .Mton Rognor I'-eatricc Barrie Brantford 50 23 121 20 54 28 12t 12 48 24 123 19 119 15 108 20 115 35 106 4 114 2 113 30 108 30 103 40 105 35 110 37 101 20 114 .. 102 14 106 103 47 104 37 107 45 99 33 99 57 101 20 97 23 97 13 101 16 97 11 100 35 99 48 98 1 97 12 97 7 80 6 80 50 79 20 79 41 80 21 50 28 50 21 50 1 53 30 49 .. 51 15 53 10 50 30 50 27 50 20 49 43 49 51 50 59 52 18 49 1 49 58 49 53 49 54 50 10 49 57 60 5 49 53 43 51 44 40 45 8 44 23 43 10 ft. 770 1800 85 1246 1620 4542 2202 3389 2158 *1924 1745 2161 3760' 1402 2115 1885 2439 1176 710 8:!0 8a3 760 1250 839 750 70.2 54.3 58.8 63.0 62.3 64.6 65.0 58.8 59.3 61.3 62.9 61.6 63.7 60.0 58.8 59.6 69.5 61.6 62.7 64.6 64.9 63.1 69.4 62.7 64.2 61.9 64.3 «1.6 60.5 64.2 64.1 66.0 64.6 64.2 62.8 66.5 67.6 48.8 33.2 48.7 44.9 32.9 34.6 35.7 .37.4 35.9 31.5 38.0 33.9 89.9 30.0 38.9 30.5 30.7 33.4 32.5 37.6 34.5 33.1 30.3 30.9 35.3 82.8 34.1 32.3 32.0 35.2 32.9 33.3 41.8 42.5 39.5 43.1 45.1 N CANADIAN HANDBOOK. STATIONS •a I *< 'i as Mkan Tkmpkkatiki; Sunitiier Year Ontario— Cijw. • ' Birnatn 43 2 Bancroft 46 1 CotUm 42 7 Collingwood 44 30 Coldwater 44 38 Clontarf 46 23 Deseronto 44 11 Durham 44 lU Elora 43 41 Egremont 44 Gravenhurst 44 64 Haileybury 47 29 Haliburton 45 1 Hamilton 43 16 Kineston 44 13 London 42 69 Lucknow - 43 56 Lindsay 44 20 Lakcfield 44 26 Moose Factory 51 16 Mattawa 46 15 North Bruce 44 23 Niagara Palls 43 6 Niagara 43 13 Owen Sound 44 34 Orillia 44 34 Ottawa 46 26 Port Stanley 42 40 Point Clark 44 5 Pelee Island 41 60 Port Dover 42 27 Port Arthur 48 27 Parry Sound 45 16 Peterborough 44 17 Pembroke 45 50 Paris 43 12 Rockliffe 46 12 Savanna 48 55 Saugeen 44 30 Sprucedale 45 30 Stony Creek 43 13 Stratford 43 23 St. Marv-s 43 15 St. George 43 14 Tororto 43 39 Uplands 45 48 81 56 (i«.2 44.6 77 50 . 62.4 39.1 82 45 . 09.2 48.0 80 15 65.1 43.7 79 40 . 65.3 41.6 77 9 64.6 40.9 77 4 64 66.7 43.6 80 .W 66.9 43.2 80 24 , \i-4 64.6 42.3 80 5 1450 62.5 40.3 19 20 770 64.8 41.4 78 39 687 62.9 87.3 78 28 63.6 40.6 79 54 303 67.9 46.1 7« 29 285 66.3 43.4 81 12 808 67.7 45.7 81 30 65.6 44.3 78 45 872 64.8 41.6 78 15 66.5 42.3 80 56 30 01.0 31.8 77 55 62.9 32.8 81 25 64.1 43.6 79 6 67.7 46.9 79 6 68.7 47.4 80 55 597 63.8 42.6 79 24 64.7 41.9 75 42 i«»4 66.6 41.2 81 13 592 66.4 46.5 81 44 595 63.8 43.6 82 :;8 72..4 49.0 80 13 t>3.T 66.6 46.0 89 12 644 59.3 34.5 89 (KiS 63.5 40.6 78 10 -•.".' 67.4 43.2 77 7 :!Sit (16.6 40.5 80 25 840 67.6 45.4 77 55 41S 63.6 38.4 90 18 15(16 59.3 31.7 81 21 6.T6 63.4 43.1 79 40 62.8 38.8 79 45 292 69.0 47.0 81 1191 64.9 43.4 81 11 1040 65.8 44.6 80 12 722 67. 1 44.9 79 24 350 65.4 44.2 79 25 61.4 38.1 CANADIAN HANDBOOK. M • STATIONS 3 1 3 it 5 .2 o ' 86 16 79 :io , 83 2 79 17 80 47 72 :w 70 43 71 5 72 1 68 19 74 10 73 35 71 13 72 8 65 42 65 29 66 22 66 36 6t-> 46 ti»i 28 Gti 4 3 = 1 < ft. 1252 "\m "iso* "26 "m 296 437 "■■21" 39 164 49 30 70 Mk Tkmhkj Summer 68.2 63.8 70.3 , 67.7 66.2 . 63.8 , 60.6 02.3 . 64.6 55.3 . (5.-).5 66.8 63.6 64.2 , 66.4 63.1 59.8 63.5 59.4 55.1 59. 1 . 60.2 62.4 62.4 64.6 60.3 60.7 61.7 .58.8 i 62.3 . 62.6 . 61.2 AN lATIKK Yfiir O.NTAKIIV -COH. White River o / 48 35 e 32 4 White»ir "the men," their own name for themselves, "Eskimo" (raw meat eaters), being the term of derision conferred on them by the Algonquins — are the oldest of the aboriginal races in Canada. From a considera- tion of the many points of agreement between the cave -.ten of France and Great Britain — the sewing needles, the neck- Lices and armlets of cut teeth, the daggers made from ant- lers, the talent for artistic sketching of men and beasts, and scenes in which men and beast figure, many palaeontolog- ists are inclined to agree with Professor Boyd Dawkins that tlie Eskimos of to-day are the survivors of the race that nade their homes in the pleistocene caves of Western I.iirope — an antiquity so great that in compari.son wit'.i it iln' interval between the building of the Pyramids of Egynt Mid of the Eiffel tower shrinks into a point. The Innuits inhabit the littoral of the northern fringe of Canada from Labrador and Ungava Bay to the boundary line between the Yukon Territory and Alaska. From the l.tter region along the whole coast line to Ungava Bay they -11 speak the same language, are characterized by the same nittlligence and the same capacity to find the means of sub- M'^ttnce in a region in which white men, with al! the re- it CANADIAN HANDBOOK. sources of cvilization at their back, have experienced great difficulty in maintaining themselves in health and vigor. "They have much artistic capacity, and Arctic navigators have described with wonder the ease with which they have taken pencil and traced the shore lines." Tiiey are bold and daring on the water, attacking alone in their frail kayaks on the open sea the largest sea animals. The Tinnehs, or Dene Dindjies, inhabit the valley of the Athabasca River, the Peace River district, the regions north of Great Bear Lake, to the south of the Innuits' ocean- washed belt of land, the mountains of the Mackenzie River, the slopes of the Rocky Mountains and almost the whole of the region west of the Rockies, including Vancouver and Queen Charlotte Islands, from which places they have poured in adventurous bands and taken possession of the country south of the Innuit territory. Immediately south of these are the Algonquins, who. originating in the East, where they were next-door neigh- bours of the Innuits, pushed their way from the interior of Labrador and throughout the region between the Atlantic sea coast and Lake Superior to the southern re- gions of the Canadian Northwest, where, as Saulteux. Prairie Crees, Wood Crees, Blackfoot, Bloods and Piegans they have taken root and shown themselves in every way as vigorous as the more easterly stock from which they originally sprung. The Cree language is the typical lan- guage of this, the most widely distributed Indian race; including, in addition to the westerly tribes alreadv enumerated, the Micmacs, Melicites and Al)enakis of tho Eastern Maritime region, the Naskapees and Montagnais of Labrador and Eastern Quebec, the Mississaugas, thr Odjibwys and the numerous tribes of Western Quebe. and Ontario which the French secured as allies in the " hali- century of conflict." These tribes were great hunter^, roamed over a vast extent of territory, and as warriors proved their capacity in many a border war during the lont,^ period when French and English strove with each oliur for supremacy in 'the waters of Acadia, in the pine forest ^ L^ ■fe CANADIAN HANnnOOK. « of Maine and Massachusetts, along the southern shores of the great Laurentian Lakes and by the side of the Mississippi River from source to mouth. The Iroquois, the second great family, resembled the French and the English in their power to organize, to pro- vide wise rules for government in peace or in war. There were five tribes at first, generally designated as the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas and the Senecas. Subsequently the Tuscaroras joined them and they became known as the Six Nations, or more often as the Iroquois. As such they held the balance of power between the French on the Lakes and the English on the Atlantic sea-board, playing one against the other with skill and securing for themselves the profitable work of middle- men in the fur trade with other tribes. There are scat- tered bands of the Huron-Iroquois, as the Huroiis of Lorette, near Quebec city, those of Caugnawaga, Lake of the Two Mountains, St. Regis, and the Iroquois found in several places on the peninsula between Lakes St. Clair and Eric. These are east of Lake Superior. West are to be found the Assiniboines and the Sioux, belonging to the Dakotahs, and thus allied to the Iroquois as sprung from a common Turanian or Northern Asiatic origin. In 1871, in the first census of the Dominion, the subject of the Indian population received careful attention. There were found to be 36 tribes, divided into Eskimo, i ; Denc- Dinjie, 19; Algonquins, 11; Huron-Iroquois, 5. As regards numbers there were: ()i the Eskimo race 4,028 " Dene-Dinjie 42,000 " Algonquin 46,000 " Huron-Iroquois 10,330 Total '02,358 As regards mode of living: Chiefly by fishing 23,000 In camps by prairie hunting 18,000 ** CANADIAN HANDBOOK. In villages in settled districts 17,358 By families in the woods 44!ooo As regards the general geographical distribution : West of the Rockies 26,000 East of the Rockies | . "76000 As regards political divisions: Province of Prince Edward Island 323 " 'I Nova Scotia []\ j^eg^j New Brunswick i 403 " Quebec ; ^ggg " Ontario ^^.gyS " Manitoba cqo British Columbia 23,000 Rupert's Land | 33!5oo Labrador and the /. rctic watershed 22^000 The census returns for 1901 give the number of Indians »t 93.454, thus showing a decrease in the thirty years of 6,649. The Report of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for 1902 gives the total at 108,112, an increase of 5,754 in thirty years. Taking the latter for purposes of comparison, the fol- lowing are the increases and decreases in 1902, as com- pared with 1871 (by Provinces) :— _, . Increase. Decrease. Fnnce Edward Island - Nova Scotia ^qi New Brunswick 241 Province of Quebec 3,854 _ Ontario 8,005 — Manitoba 6,254 British Columbia 2,500 Northwest Territories 15,494 '^''*«' -'1.255 15,5^^ Net increase 5>754 UI^|J|| L CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 48 These comparisons show that the Indians in the older provinces are increasing in population at such a rate as to be more than an off-set to their decrease in the Northwest Icrritories. During the thirty-one years the Indians of the plains have been brought within the sphere of civiliza- tion, and have suffered. The introduction of railways, the destruction of the larger game like the buffalo, and the restriction of the area of production of wild animals l.y settlement and by ranching grounds have been more powerful forces of depletion than the reproductive force of the race for growth. The change from the decrease of 6,649 in 1901 to the increase of 5.754 in 1902 shows that the decrease in the Northwest has been stayed, and that the system which has resulted so well in the older provinces h about to produce equally beneficial results under the new conditions of the Northwest Territories. Of the total, 22.084 are outside of treaty limits and are nomadic. The Indians of Canada are in various stages of develop- ment. Some are polygamous, while some have adopted the civilization of the white population to such an extent as scarcely to be distinguished from them. Some would not know what a vote for a member of parliament means ; otliers possess the electoral franchise and prize it highly.' .^ome tribes are increasing in numbers and others are decreasing. The returns as to Indians resident on reserves show tneir condition: — .\umber on reserves 86,028 Quantity of land cultivated, acres ii2!8q4 New land cleared, -cres 2,673^254 Value of farming implements $ 52o!33o Number of live stock and poultry ^56,188 Va!ue of live stock and poultry $ 1,508,726 Hay crop for the year, tons " 97,066 Grain crop for the year, bush 717^903 Potatoes and other roots, bush 504472 Value of rifles, nets, traps, etc $ 526^536 «l 4- ., pi-] 4« CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 1902. .Value of household effects $ 894,680 Value of real and personal property . . . .$22,089,205 Wages earned by fishing $ 680,523 Wages earned by hiinting $ 607,025 Wages earned by other industries $ 607,376 Total income $ 4,095,809 The Government of Canada have taken charge of thr Indians. Like an army they have been, and are still in large numbers, fed and clothed by the Government. They are wards of the nation, but, unlike wards in most cases, they have never had any serious disagreements with their guardian. With their consent, their lands - ■> many in .stances havs been .sold until an Indian Fund has accumu- lated amounting on 30th June, 1903, to $4,705,130, the expenditure from which, charged principally to interest, was $296,217. The expenditure from parliamentary appro- priations was $1,077,815. This amount was divided amontr the Indians of the several provinces as follows: — Ontario and Quebec, $88,364; Nova Scotia, $7,620; New Brunswick, $16,891; Prince Edward Island, $1,574; Manitoba and the Northwest, $818,576; and British Columbia, $138,210. The sum of $44,214 was divided between Ontario, Quebec and the Maritime Provinces for expenditure on schools. This expenditure in the whole Dominion reached the sum of $384,939. Schools — day, boarding and industrial — have been estab li.shed for the Indians, and now number 283, with 9,66' » pupils on the rolls, and an average attendance of 6,054. Tin; number of pupils in 1885 was 4,000. Of these 283 schools 100 were conducted by the Roman Catholic Church, 87 bv Anglicans, 41 by Methodists, 14 by Presbyterians, and 41 were undenominational. In the older provinces many Indian children attend the day schools of the white com- munities in the vicinity of the reserves. CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 47 The census of religions for 1002 shows that there were ,y.735 Indians Roman Catholics, 14,472 Anglicans, 11,106 Methodists, 1,375 Presbyterians, 1,059 Baptists, 692 other ihristian creeds, and I2,l);e pagans. The White Population. The various settlements at Acadie, New England, Vir- ^'iiiia and on the St. Lawrence in the first decade of the seventeenth century were eflfected with difficulty. Popu- lation was first attracted to this continent from Europe, and scattered settlements were formed from the T.ulf of St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico. These immigrants peopled the regions contiguous to the coast, and pushed their way slowly into the hinterland, in an ever-widening circumference. While this movement was in progress along the Atlantic coast, the descendants of the few hardy Xorman emigrants, who had secured a foot-hold at the con- fluence of the Saguenay and St. Lawrence rivers, and there founded their first establishments on Canadian soil, pushed vij,'nrously forward, exploring and settling the St. I^awrcnce :in * connection with the movement of populatL frl^f ^ ".' CanaHia^o « . ^ ^ ^*' ^^° '"^"y thousands of t.anad.ans passed over to the newly opened reeions th movement continuing for years C.^a' T ' Territory, the counterpart. a„T in man ''°'*'""' superior of the Western ^.J ^^^"^ respects the destined to rema.^ o ked UD fo'; th". '°'''' "^ ^"^ ^^^ Bay Company holding tSe kTy ^^ ^ '''"' ''' ""'^°" The territorial claims of this tradm,r purchased by the Canadian r ^ company were Canada, to recover her los he^^^^'T'"' '" ^^^o. an-I velop the new region p^scu'^tY' '^^^" ^* ''"« to de- such energy that in ten Tear, J^ '"'^'^ °^ ^^"^« ^'^I, acres com?[etely "rveved o V^"""' "'"'^ ^o.ooo.ooo have been'added^^St tre^asIma^S'* '^^^ *'^^^' that there are now over eightv-fiVe m.m ''°''- ^" for settlement, giving 537.oc^tmrof'";^tre:cr °"' sprJaVthr:;tu; V: Welt i:a"t""r ^°^"'^*- •'-' ^.-an boundary line. Whn the rest 7'"' ''^ ^^"^- were removed by the pJCs^ll ZZTZl^lTr""' Cars Tor^LTth- vr ^-^n -"••- ^-- -h: -ailed in voir;:?--r?s:::rr-- i;:*:! CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 49 past, now moving in one direction and now in anntlier, have Iiclped to mix up the people on the border hind of the two ii'imtries to the great advantage of both. In 1800 the population of what is now known as Canada was under 400,000. According to the last census, taken in if/)f, it was 5.37l,3lSi showing the gain in tlie century to Iiave been 5,000,000 on an original population of 4(X),ooo. Canada begins the new century with the same number of inhabitants as the United States began the 19th cntury. The main racial divisions in Canada arc into French anil English-speaking races. Of the former, in 1901 there were found to be within Canada 1,649,371, 80 per cent, of whom were massed within the bounds of the Province of Quebec. The proportion of the Frencii speaking race is increas- ing in Quciiec. It was 78.8 per cent, in the census of i88i, and 79.7 per cent, in that of 1891, and 80.18 in i9oi — one and a third per cent, in twenty years. The bilingual population, thus gathered together and seeking to accomplish the task of developing the vast country entrusted to them and of supplying it with all the paraphernalia of modern civilization, were at the last cen- sus found to be divided along lines now to be mentioned. The population at the last census, which was taken on tlie 31st March, 1901, wa^ 5.37i,3i5- The proportion of the sexes calculated froin the returns of the census of 1901 is 5,123 males to 4,877 females in each 10,000 of the popula- tion. .\ccording to the same census, 87.00 per cent, of tlie inhabitants of Canada are native-born and 94.53 per cent, ilritish-born, which, of course, includes tiic Canadian-horn, i he natives of Ireland numbered 101,629; of England, Wales and the Channel Islands, 201,285; and ot Scotland. '\s63i- Those born in the United States numbered 127,899, and those born in Germany, 37.300 ; natives of Irance numbered 7,944. B)» CANADIAN HANOrinOK. I'll. rtli>{i.,iis of tin- pcopli- wen-: Protestants. 2.937,6^,; Komaii CatliMliis, 2,3^>,fxj.); J^ws. ir».4<,i ; without crc. d and crii'fl not given, 187,618. Tlu- largest Protestant (lenoininations were: Methodists .ii6,8«r,; Presbyterians. 842,44^; tliureh of Enelanl f.8o.62(); Haptists. 316,477. Classifying tiie population according to ages and ; nii(Mle-aged men and women, from 30 to 50 years, and old men and women, 50 years and upwards, the following n- sults are obtained : — 1M>! Malci Infants .^..^ Children 06,4«M Boysan.i Girls.;.'. :..:;;;;;;;; f^-f!^' Youths and Maidens 1 oano^ Vounjj Men un.l Women. ...■...' ' iTi'i{'l ?f,':i''ll'""*''"',*^*^" ■""' Women . .' i ! .' ! .' ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ' I *««"■ 48 Old Men and Wotnen I o ,^ •„,,« NotOiven ^'-^ 20,iH6 Female- 05, lit, 25:{,67:; 68o,-i:;o 272.21.N 45H,«74 584,9W» 370,0ss 19.311 Of the aged 39,539 were 80 years old and towards, atui of the.se 3.871 wore 90 years old and upwards. These latttr were:— Males, 1,779; females, 2,092. r.y the census of 1901 in each group of 10,000 tlu re ^ycre 6,175 smgle, 3.412 married and 413 wido.ved. Of the '^"igle, 3.256 were males, and 2,919 females. The mair* were divided into-1,537 under 21 years of age, 1,719 o- cr 21 years ; bachelors over 20 years, 1,000. Of the J.ui'i females, 1,201 were under 15 years of age ; 1,455 were , there has been a large addition to the iM.pnlation throiigh ininiigratioii. 'llms to tlic end of Deiemher, igoo, in the twelve months of tlie year, 29,197 persons arriveil at onr ocean ports ^nd dcchired their in- tention to settle. Of these, I4.73f were hound to the Northwest, and of these 6,593 were Cialicians. In addi- tion to the 2<),H)7 persons from over the sea, there were ni.orter Canada, taken only from members of the Dominion Par- liament, forms a ministry which must possess the con- fidence of the majority in the House of Commons. Tlic power of dismissing the ministry lies with the Governor- General. The command of the Canadian military, both active and reserve, is vested in the King, who appoints an officer e of Commons in iSf)-. The sittings are annual, but may be oftener. The naturalization laws are as follows: — 1. Alien women married to British subjects become, ipso facto, naturalized British subjects. 2. Aliens, after three years' residence, bringing certifi- cate- of good character, on taking the oath of residence ;m^ ^^»g| Iriusli :ati()ii jtli of lortci - til at sitidii , anW itli in Iwaril t li.is ciall\ .-s f. ,V )n, as ISC'- CANADIAN HANDUOOK. Administration of Government. 65 'I'lu- business of the country is transactod by the ineni- ln rs of the Cabinet, each of whom, as a rule, presides over a (k-partment. These departments are as follows : — I. The riovernor-General's office. _'. The Privy Council office, with charjje of state papers and records of council. 3. The Department of the Minister of Justice and \ttorney-GeneraI, including the manafjcment of peniten- tiaries. 4. The Department of Railways and Canals. 5. The Department of the Minister of Public Works, liaving control of all public works, other than railways and canals. 6. The Department of the Minister of the Interior, iiuliiding: (a) Dominion Lands; fb) Geological Survey; I c") Indian Affairs and Immigration. 7. The Department of the .Secretary of State, including: (a) official correspondence with the riovernor-General's office and with the Lieutenant-Governors of the Provinces; I])) the printing and publishing of the Official Gazett •; (c) tlic registration of all public legal documents; (d) the I i(«\ (.'riinient stationery and King's Printer's office. H. The Department of the Minister of Marine and fisheries, including: construction and maintenance of lii^litlunises; river police; revenue coast-guard; steam lioat inspection; protection of fisheries and fish culture. 0. The Department of the Minister of Militia and De- ft nee, including: militia, fortifications and military schools. 10. The Department of the Minister of Finance, includ- ing: Treasury board, government savings' banks, and Andit office. 11. The Department of the Minister of Customs. 12. The Department of the Minister of Inland Revenue, inihuling: collection of the exci;e; canal and timber slide ouls: ferry dues and the carrying out of the Acts relating 1" the inspection of food, gas, weights and measures. " g f M CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 13- The Department of the Postmaster-General, includ- ing Post office savings' banks and the Labour Bureau. 14. The Department of the Minister of Agriculture, 'n- cluding: the Patent office; census and statistical office; quarantine and experimental farms and dairy interests. 15. The Department of the Minister of Trade and Com- merce. In addition to these there is a Department of Mounted Police, administered by the President of the Privy Council. For the purpose of communicating directly with the Imperial Government, the Dominion has a resident repre- sentative in London called the High Commissioner for Canada. Provincial Constitutions. The Government of Canada appoints the Lieutenant- Governors, of whom there is one for each province, whose salary is paid by the Dominion Parliament. Each province has its own elective assembly and ad- ministration with full power to regulate its own local affairs as set forth in the Confederation Act ; to dispose of its own revenues and enact such laws as it may deem best for its own internal welfare, provided only such lr.ws do not in- terfere with, and are not adverse to, the legislation of the Federal Parliament. The Dominion Government assumed the debts existing at the time of the Union, agreeing at the same time to pay the provinces an annual subsidy, which is a grant equal to eighty cents a head of the population of the four provinces originally forming the Dominion, as ascertained by the census of 1861, except in the case of New Brunswick and NoVa Scotia, where it was arranged that the subsidy should increase each decennial census till the population in each case reached 400,000. Besides this subsidy there is given to each province an annual allowance for government, and also an annual allowance of interest on the amnimt of debt allowed, where the province has not reached the authorized debt. Ol It : 1 1 ^i i -; ^: ! '. i lili CANADIAN HANDBOOK. IT The provinces retained possession of the lands belonp- mg to them before Confederation. Manitoba, having no public lands at the time of its creation into a province, has since received from the Dominion Government a gift of swamp lands. The provinces appoint all the officers required for the administration of justice, with the single exception of the judges. They regulate: — ist. Education; 2nd, Asylums, hos- pitals, charities and eleemosynary institutions; 3rd, Com- mon gaols, prisons and reformatories; 4th, Municipal in- stitutions; Jth, Shop, tavcn, and other licenses; 6th, Local works; 7th, Solemnization of marriage; 8th, Property and civil riehts; 9th. Administration of justice, so far as the constitution, maintenance and organization of nrovincial courts of both civil and criminal jurisdiction and the appointment of magistrates or justices of the peace, are concerned. Emigration and immigration are subjects of botii federal and provincial legislation, but provincial laws on the sub- ject must not conflict with federal enactments. The general principles of the Canadian Constitution are: representative government by ministers responsible to the people ; a Federal government having charge of the general puldic good ; and Provincial governments attending to local and provincial interests. The provinces have not any power to organize and maintain a provincial military force, being in this respect unlike the States in the Union to the south ; nor have they final legislation, the 1 iominion Government possessing, under the constitution, >'ie power of veto. Excepting in Prince Edward Island, municipal institu- tions have been adopted in all the Provinces of the Domi- nion, the germ of which is in the municipality. Several of these form a township, and these in turn are sub-divisions of the county. The council of each county, township, city, town and incorporated village has power to pass by-laws for obtaining such real and personal property as may be m E8 CANADIAN HANDBO> C. >er,»ire.l for the «se of the corporation : for anpointinjr anri I-y.n« ponn.i-keepc-rs. fence-viewers, overseers of Ll Sn^ """"'■""/°^'-^°""''-^^'""-^- -Inators t Sues """';" '"' "^ ••''^-'-'^-al societies, n.-chanics' nst.ti.tes. .nannfact,.r.nfi: cstahlishments or road co,„- pan.es: for regulating driving, on roads and bridge egr s. on, h,„K,,„^,. ,„,, „^,^^.„^ ,,^_^.^^^ ^^^^ inflicting fi^e^To Plantmg ornamental trees an,! pn.hihiting the sale o „ ..x.cat.ng |„uor under the Ten.perance Acts passed v the I.eg.slature. tohn'^Britidrr'T't'"''"'.'''^ -'":^»-« V Ontario. Mani- •'l>a. Bnt.sh C..Iun,b.a a.,,1 other pn.vinees. the whole 'm.n.c.pal organization co.nprises fa) the tow, ships beTnt rnral d.str cts of an area of eight or ten square .Ss M v-llages w.th a population over 750: (c) tow s wit P . at.on of over .000. Such of these as are compri ed ^^.th.n a large d.str.ct called a county constitute (d) the county „u,n.c>pality: (.) eities are established from the Rfowth of towns when their population exceeds 15.000 laken .., the large, it n.ay be said that Canada is'pre- jnnnently the !a..d of self-gover„,„e„t. The people have >een tra.ned for years i., „n,n,. ipal govern.nent. and by it keepcont ,! of expenditure for .nunicipal purpose: as hrough t..c Provincial Legislature and the Federal Par- hament they keep control of expenditures for provincial and general purposes. VI. THE r.AND OF CANADA. The land of Canada consists of granted and ungranted Ia..d. The ungranted land in the older provinces is the LTJnlL i *'^: P''°^'""^- ^"'' - ^•■SPOsed of by officials appo.nted for the purpose, i„ accordance with the pro- v,s.ons .f statutes passed bv the several Provincial Legis- latures. *• The ungrante.l land in .Manitoba an.l the Xorthwest lerntones belongs to the whole people of Ca.iada. and i. ad.n.nisterc.i by the Federal Government CANADIAN HANDBOOK. B» The •fdllovvinR is a concise statcincnt of »:.e essential I'latiires of the law poveminp the disposal of Dominion l.imls in Manitoba an 32 33 34 35 3^1 30 20 28 27 26 25 j 19 20 21 22 23 24i 18 " 16 13 14 '•^1 7 8 10 II 12 I 1 i 6 1 5 4 2 I 1 1 1 E. S. The townships are numbered in regular order northerly frnm the international boundary or forty-ninth parallel of latitude, and lie in ranges numbered, in Manitoba, East and St from a certain meridian line styled the Principal Mcri- ilian, drawn northerly from the forty-ninth parallel, and tliroughout the Northwest Territories, in ranges numbered westerly from other initial meridians styled the Second, lln'rd, Fourth Meridian, and so on, according to their order westward from the Principal Meridian. Each section of a township, or 640 acres, is divided into miartcr sections of 160 acres each, styled, according to posi- tion, the North-West, North-East, South-West, or South- iiast (juartcr-section, and to facilitate the descriptions of letters patent of less than a quarter section, every section is •0 CANADIAN HANDBOOK. supposed to he ft- thcr .livido.l into qnartor-rniartcr-sections, oi 40 acres, tiutiDcrcd as shown in the followintj diagram., and called U-ha] >ul)-divisions ; — N. •3 ! Ml 15 16 12 ' II W. I 1 — J. 10 ; () — ' 1 F.. !-jLi_l I Disposal of Dominion Lands. Tn ropard tf) their disposal the Dominion lan.ls in Mani- foha and the Northwest Territories may be considered as divided into two classes, viz. : Even-ntimbered and odd-nnm- hered sections. Within a certain area the eviii-nnmherefl sections. Cex- ceptinp those nnnibcred 8 and 26. which are allotted to the Hudson's Ray Company) , are open for homestead entry, and the odd-nitmhered ones. Cexccptinp 11 and 29, which arc Schorl Secti.ms), are held for sale, and also as land prants in aid of the construction of Colonization Railways. The area in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories which has been alienated for actual settlement, under home- stead entries, amounts to nearly 18 million acres. The area set out for settlement by the surveyors is 85,000,000 acres. Homesteads. Any person, male or female, who is the sole head of a family, or any male who has attained the ape of eifrhteeii years, is entitled, on makinp application before the Local Agent of the District, in which the land he desires to bo entered for is situated, and p.iyinjv an office fee of ten dol- lars, to obtain homestead entry for any quantity of land not CI ? i CANADIAN HANDBOOK. «1 exceeding one quarter-section, or iGo acres, of the class of land open to such entry. This entry entitles the holder to occupy and cultivate the land to the exclusion of aqy other ])crson, the title remaining in the Crown until the issue of patent for the land. A settler who has been granted an entry for a homestead is required by the provisions of the Dominion Lands Act and the amendments thereto to perform the conditions con- nected therewith, under one of the following plans : — (i) At least six months' residence upon and cultivation of the land in each year during the term of three years. (2) If the father (or mother, if the father is deceased) of any person who is eligible to make a homestead entry under the provisions of this Act, resides upon a farm in the vicinity of the land entered for by such person as a home- stead, the requirements of this Act as to residence prior to obtaining patent may be satisfied by such person residing with the father or mother. (3) If a settler has obtained a patent for his homestead, or a certificate for the issue of such patent countersigned in tlie manner prescribed bv this Act, and has obtained entry for a second homestead, the requirements of this Act as to residence prior to obtaining patent may be satisfied by resi- dence upon the first homestead, if the second homestead is in the vicinity of the first homestead. (4) If the settler has his permanent residence upon farming land owned by him in the vicinity* of liis homestead, tl'.e requirements of this Act as to residence may be satisfied by residence upon the said land. In case a certain number of homestead settlers, embrac- ing not less than twenty families, with a view to greater convenience in the establishment of schools and churches •The term "vicinity," used above, is meant to indicate the same township or an adjoining or cornering township. A settler who avails himself of the provisions of Clauses (2), fj) or '41 must cultivate 30 acres of his homestead, or substitute 20 head of stock, with buildings for their accommodation, and have besides 80 acres substantially fenced. ii <3 CANADIAN irANDBOOK. i. :i!i I i i i h It and for advantages of a similar nature, ask to he allowed t., settle together in a hamlet or village, the Minister of the Intenor may dispense with the condition of residence on the homestead, but the condition of cultivation must be carried cut on each one. There are also provisit^ns in the land laws for co-operative farming if und.-rtaken by not less than ten persons. A homestead entry is liable to be cancelled at any tinu. cultu-ated h.s homestead for at least six months in any on year from the date of perfecting entry ; but in case of iliness, properly vouched for. or in case of immigrants returning t- their native land to bring out their families to their home- steads, or m other special cases, the Minister of the Interior tiiay grant an extension of time during which the settler may be absent from his homestead, but such leave of ai,- sence will not count in the term of residence. The privilege of homestead entry only applies to agri- cultural lands. * Wood for Settlers. In townships which consist partly of prairie and partlv of timber lands the timber lands are, where it is considereil expedient, divided into Wood Lots of not more than twenty acres and not less than ten acres, and any settler not havin- more than ten acres of wood land on his homestead quarter" section IS entitled, on making application before the Local Agent, to be entered for one of such lots, the applicant pay- mg the price fixed for the same, and on his fulfilling tlio requirements of the Act. in respect to his homestead, a patent shall issue to him for such wood lot. The cancellation of the homestead entry also involves the cancellation of such wood lot, and the forfeiture of the purchase money for the same. The settler is prohibited from selling, prior to the issue of patent, any of the timber on his land, or on the appur- tenant wood lot, without permission from the Minister of the Intenor, under penalty of fine or imprisonment, or both as well as the forfeiture of his homestead rights. CANADIAN HANDBOOK. Sales. 63 f i The odd-numbered sections of Dominion lands, except- ing School Sections and where they may be reserved as grants in aid of Colonization Railways, are open for pur- chase at such prices and on such terms and conditions as may be fixed from time to time by the Governor-in-Council. Educational Endowment. The Parliament of Canada has made a liberal provision in aid of education in Manitoba and the Northwest Terri- tories by sett- , -nart Sections ii and 29 in every township throughout -- ' -f the Dominion Lands as an endow- ment for sucn p. .^ . These sections are styled School Lands, and are administered by the Governor-in-Council through the Minister of the Interior. It is provided that they shall be disposed of by sale at public auction at an upset price fixed from time to time by the Governor-in- Council ; the moneys realized from such sales to be invested in Dominion securities, and the interest arising therefrom paid over to the Government of the Province or Territory within which the lands are situated, towards the support of tlie public schools therein. Hudson's Bay Company's Sections. Sections 8 and 26 in every fifth township, that is, in townships 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and so on, and Section 8 and three-quarters of Section 26 in all other townships are re- served to the Hudson's Bay Company, under the terms and conditions of the deed of surrender from the said Company to the Crown by >vhich the Company is entitled to one- twentieth of the land within the "Fertile Belt," which is fijund to be satisfied by the allotment of the said sections. Fuel for Settlers. Settlers will experience no difficulty in obtaining a suffi- cient supply of fuel. In those portions of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories where wood is not found to any great :i 64 CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 1 i! i t i . ! i^ extent, nature has furnished coal as a substitute. In South- ern Manitoba wood may be obtained from the Turtle Moun tains, Brandon Hills, and along the banks of the Souris River ; the "Manitoba and Southwestern" railway furnish- ing the best possible access to the Souris coal fields, from which a considerable percentage of the fuel used in South- ern Manitoba and at many points on the main line of the Canadian Pacific railway, as far east as Winnipeg and west- ward to Moose Jaw, is obtained. In that portion of the Province of Manitoba lying north of the Assiniboine nearly every half section of land will be found to contain a certain quantity of wood and some parts of the tract are very thickly wooded. That portion of the District of Assiniboia which lies to the south of the Qu'Ap- pelle and South Saskatchewan Rivers is fairly supplied witii either wood or coal. In Northern Alberta and for some distance to the east of the Rocky Mountains, and along the rivers in Southern Al- berta, an abundant supply of timber for fuel is obtained and throughout the whole of Alberta there is an abundant sup- ply of coal, and at no point in it will a settler probably be more than forty or fifty miles from a coal mine, and 70 per cent, of the district would come within fifteen miles of one Ihe coals found in Alberta vary from a high-grade lignite up to the highest grade of anthracite, and the supply is in- exhaustible, sufficient to supply the entire world for cen- turies. In addition to the regular largely operated col lieries situated at I.ethbridge, Canmore and Anthracite, there are scattered all through the district smaller mines, the output of which will vary from 100 to 5,000 tons per annum. These latter arc operated by the settlers them- selves to furnish coa! to their neighbours, and the price varies from 50 cents to $1.50 per ton at pit's mouth, the settlers teaming the coal to their residences. At the points named the output is shipped partlv tc United States points, and partly to Canadian points as far cast as Winnipeg and as far west as Vancouver, and tlu output is increasing rapidly. : 1 • 1* ll 1, 1 i 'l 1> !■- ' f CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 8r. Building Material. In addition to small local mills at a few points in Snutli- crn Manitoba and the District of Assinihoia. there are mills situated on the Lake of the Woods, on Lakes Winnipejj. Manitoba, and Winnipcgosis ; at Brandon, Prince Albert. Tlattleford, Edmonton and vicinity. Red Deer or the Row River, at Calgary and other points. On Sheep Creek and the Old Man's River these sawmills have an output varying from 200,000 feet per annum up to ten or twelve million, and, in addition, lumber is brought into the Territories and Manitoba from British Columbia points, the price of said Inmber varying from $8 to $30 per thousand, according to (|nality. Roofing material in the shape of shingles is worth about $2 per thousand. The country is bountifully supplied with building material in the shape of limestone, sandstone, sranite ; also clays for the manufacture of brick, cements, etc. Provincial Lands. In the Province of Ontario it is provided that public lands which have been surveyed and are considered suitable for settlement and cultivation may be appropriated as free grants. Two hundred acres is the limit of the Act regulat- ing the disposal of them as free grants. A single man over eighteen years of age, or a married man having no children under eighteen years of age residing with him, can obtain a grant of one hundred acres. The male head of a family. or the sole female head of a family having a child or children under eighteen years of age residing with him or her, may nhtain a free grant of two hundred acres, and may also pur- chase an additional one hundred at tl rate of ^o cents ('2s') per acre. The settlement duties required are as follows : To have .1' least fifteen acres cleared and under cultivation, of which two acres at least are to be cleared and cultivated annually fhiring five years ; to have built a habitable house at least sixteen by twenty feet in size ; and to have actually and •• CANADIAN HANDBOOK. continiiottslv resided upon and cultivated the land for five years. The locatee is not bound to remain on the land all the time durinp the five years, but. may be absent on busi- ncss or at work for, in all. not more than six months in anv one year. A locatee who purchases an additional one hun- dred acres under the regulations must, within five years from the date of sale, clear fifteen acres and cultivate the same before bcin;? entitled to a patent ; but he is not nquird to hnil.l a house or reside on the purchased lot where lu holds it ill connection with a free grant. In the Rainy River district, to the west of Lake Superior cons.stmg of well-watered, uncleared lands, free grants are made of one hundred and sixty acres to a head of a familv having hildren under eighteen years of age residing witl, him (or her), and one hundred and twenty acres to a single man over eighteen years, or to a married man not having children under eighteen years residing with him ; each per- son obtaining a free grant to have the privilege „f purchas- ing eighty acres additional at the rate of $i per acre payabK^ 111 four annual instalments. The settlement duties are the same as set out above, excepting that only three years- residence is required. The soil of this district is a deep loam, and for an area of nearly a million acres is very fertile Outside of the free grant townships, uncleared land varies in price from 2 shillings to 40 shillings an acre, ac- cording to situation and soil. Cleared and improved farms can be bought at prices ranging from £4 to £10 an acre The money can nearly always be paid in instalments cover- ing several years. The northern lands of the province have been explored within the past four years, and 60,000,000 acres of land opened up to settlers. i i, i t' In the Province of Ouebec the Government have si.r- veyed about seven million acres of Crown lands. These lands purchased from the Government are to be paid for in the following manner : One-fifth of the purchase CANADIAN HANDBOOK. g; money is required to be paid the dav of sale, and the re- mainder in four equal annual instahnents bearing interest ..I I per cent. But the prices at which these lands are sold are so low, viz.: from is 5d to 2s 5d. that these conditions are not very burdensome. The purchaser is required to lake possession of the land sold within six months of the acres of Crown lands without conditions of settlement I u se lands are put up at public auction at an upset price -f M an acre. Purchase money to be paid with application. ns of survey to be paid by purchaser. The above sections ■'!'P y only to lands fit for agricultural purposes. Lands V ell timbered are not sold outright. * i; Jl •• CANADIAN HANDBOOK. Tn the Prnvlnce of Nova Scotia there are nearly one an'I a half milhon acres of land hclonjjinR to the Crown, a con sidtrable quantity of which is unsiiited for cultivation. Th» price of Crown lands is .$-}0 ptr ion acres. The distinctifm is made in the price between loo acres and smaller U.ts, ;i> the difference in cost of survey, defrayed by the Govern ment, is very triflinjj. .Ml minerals and ores are reserved !.■ the Crown, except limestone, plaster and buildinp material- In the Province of I'.ritish Columbia, the land and pn emption laws are as follox ■ Every head of a famih, widower or single man. elKlteen years of aye, beinjj a I'ritish subject, born or naturalized, has the rijjht l> pre-empt a tract of Ian4.><'3.053 , 3) For Railways • 25.91^'.--^ (4) For Northwest Territories '),2f)o,7i4 (5) For other Public Works & buiUlinps I5.733.4<'^ $3-J5.o'A954 Thus, over 63 million dollars beyond the amount of the net public debt have been expende.l by the people of Canada for i)ublic purposes. The interest paid on the public debt averages $2.47 per $ioo. The improvement in the credit of tlie country is nieasure.l by the great decrease in the interest paid as com pared with 1868, when the average interest was $4.51 per $100. Besides the amounts expended on railways as above, the Covernment of Canao' was 74.8 per cent, of tlie whole. Durinj,' tlic preceding 10 years it averaged 76.5 per cent. Tlie sources from which the several provinces derive their income are : Dominion Subsidy, Crown Lar.ds Suc- cession Dues, Licenses, etc. The expenditures are for Education, Maintenance of 1 ubhc rnstitution.s, Hospitals, Agriculture, Administration of Justice, Legislation, Civil Covernment, etc. The Province of Ontario in ujo2 received : Dominion subsidy »I 196 873 Crown Lands, woods and forests, rents 1 474480 Licenses ''.„.'„ Interest "^•»»* suceessiondut.es 1 ! ! ! 1 i! l! ! ! ! ! l! ! ! ! :! i! [ lllill Other sources ^^^^33 ( )ntario expended on : civil Government iwid Legislation 19k oor Administration of Ju.stUe ».9-s Education 432,754 I'ubli,. nmltution.s a „Viho8pi"tals; ■.'.:'.; 1 o^^qz! Agriculture l.«79,921 < »ther expenses , ^?1'^*" 1,367,155 'ihe Province of Quebec received : Dominion .sub.sldles in^,,. Interest 1.086,714 , . • lO') OQO Lands and forests nllnli Licenses and tax on , om. corporations ■.■.■.■.' 9129^4 Ku< cession dues, . 9iA».* Other sources... 222,. 64 1.045.339 il 4 I CANADIAN HANDBOOK. ( jucbec expended on : Interest, redempttmi of ilebt. MiiikinK fund $l,r>41.U«S Civil (lovernmeiit uiul UeKlHlatlon 462,272 Administration of Justke 618,315 Public Instruction 4.".5,18r> Agriculture 217,369 Oolonlzation roads 112,540 Public works, buildings, iiHyluins 538,229 ( (ther expenst'H 545,709 riie Province of Xuva Scotia received: Subsidy from Federal Government 432,807 Mines <»7,949 Succession dues 55,222 Crown lands 74,735 Other sources 99.504 Nova Scotia expended : Interest 156,625 Education 259,379 Hospitals and charities 140,573 Legislation and Civil Oovernment 74,375 Road grants 94,478 Other expenses 361,973 The Province of New Brunswick received: Dominion subsidy 495,312 Lands and forests 175,280 Licenses (liquor) and taxes Incorp. Compa 48,205 Succession duties 16,935 Other source."* 90,294 New Brunswick expended : Interest 132,147 Education 201,481 Asylums and hospitals 63,552 l! 5 years and 20 years of age, 66 in every group of 100 are Liiruiled on the attendance books. ■ 4 i f , U 'i '" CANADIAN HANDHOOK. iMve of the J7 universities are ii..n-.|.,n,„ni„ational x the Church of Rome, i un.ler the Presbyterian Church > "ucler the Afetho.list Church. a„,l . „.;,., the Hapt'is; Church. *• AT iflf \"^^T ""'^^"'ty '" Cana.la is the University r.f McG.II, m Afcntreal. It owns property to the vah-e oi p.20o,ooo, has an endowment of over $3,000,000, and an nicome from endowments of $346,000. 1,150 students are in attendance. 'I he University of Toronto has 1.322 students, an endow- ment of $1,187,683. owns property to the vahie of $1,457- 339, and has an income of $1 19,087. In tlie Province of Ontario, under the University I'cderation Act of 1887, an uniform standard of higher edu- cation is sought in the union of the various denominational nniversities with the non-denominational University of Toronto. Methodist, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Episcopalian Universities and Colleges and other institutions have thus federated and affiliated with the provincial institution. The same policy has been pursued in other provinces In the Province of Quebec the University of Laval two branches (Roman Catholic) and McGill (non sectarian) are the centres around which the other institutions rally A statement of the possibilities, in the way of Educa- tion, though specially describing McGill University, will give a clear idea of the status of higher education in Canada and of the extent to which the people have endeavoured to secure the benefits of university education. McGill University. Montreal, founded in 18,4 by a wealthy citizen, has been enable. ., reach its present h^gl, position among the universities of the world by priv.-u. munificence. With a teaching staff of over ,80 profL- .r. ecturers and demonstrators, it affords advanced instru • n to about 1,150 students in all the branches of higher urn - city w^rk. -.Arts Science-Pure and Applied-Law a..! Medicine. A Railway Department is being established sH ■j- i (5 1 '■' 1 I m CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 77 ill connection with the Facultv of Applied Science, and a Dental Department in connection with the Faculty of Medicine. It opens its courses in Arts and Pure Science to women on eijual terms with men. and ^jrants dcprees nf n.A.. M.A.. n..Sc., M..Sc.. D.Sc. D.I.itt.. I'..C.I,., D.l .1... M.I). and CM. The nndcrjjradnate course in Arts, .\pplied Science and Medicine, extends over four years; in l.aw, iiver three years. The hnil''inKS i4 the university occupy a beautifid site in the Cii of Montreal, and its unrivalled l.dM)ratories and e(|uipment for research work, particularly m the Departments of Medicine, Biolopy, Physics, Chcmi.v iiy, Civil, Mechanical and F.lectrital Fnnineerinj;, and .Mining; and Metallurgy, are attraclin}>; students from all parts of the world. It possesses in aildition a beautiful Library and Museum, and ha^ recently provided a mafjni- ticent residential hall for its women-students, a step which will shortly be followed by the erection of residential halls fi.r men. The university extends its influence to schools throughout Canada, and there are affiliated to it no less than four theological and three other colleges, situated at Ouebec, Stanstead. and Vancouver. For general education the several i)rovinces allot a very considerable portion of the public revenue. The ricneral (lovernment spends several hundreil thousands dollars •Tunually on the education rtf the Indian chihlren. The lApenditure by the provinces for public schools in \qo2 was |".7><7. •" »'- General In Jheta^^h!::.::^;;:';:^ '- -- — i-^Hn. ^...nofProtesta.:^j?:r;-,::.--,;^- In the other provinces the education laws recorni^e n,. < ivision on those lines. '^'^''nm/.c n.. IX. CRIMF IN CANADA. D'Tinp the twentv-seven veirs ,8^/- frivinp: certain particulars resi.ertmcr • *^*"'""' Tl.e classificatic, adopted is tl.f n-noni .„„ , ? »Me offe„„. and .„„,.,|;„ eonvi ,^ "' Z'i'' ".'.t' OT m.i,.r Magistralc and under the Speedy Trials Act. CANAMAN IIAVrHUifiK. ->k The statistics of the earlier yr.irs are not romplctr. since the work was new to the ofTuials. Tic country has] however, a body of fairly arctiratc statistic* relatinp to crrmc ff>r the period i88,VK)02. Thij,, tiK.njrh limitifl conipart-.l with the lone-Bath.-rerl statistics of crime in many other cnntrics. possesses value in enaWinp m to determine the position ,.! fanarla in re- spect to crime. Taking, however, the period 18.^1-100.' for onr jMiid- ance thfoiiRh the lahyrinths of crimina'iM ^ve have fo- the twelve years ^^i.Rj^^ convictions for in.liciahir an-l o i fl hi hi ■'! M 80 CANADIAN HANDBOOK. Males convicted of indict.ible oflfenccs averafjed 3,01,^ in the first three years and 5,360 in the last three years of the 12-year period, while females averaped 305 in the first, and 328 in the last term of three years. The proportion of the sexes in the first three-year period was 928 men to 72 women. Tn the fourth three-year period it was 945 men to 55 women. The proportion of w< their numbers; 4th. that the industrial class have less than their proportion in all the six di^'isions of crime except in oflfenccs again.st property with violence, where they slighth exceed their proportion ; 5th, that the professional clas- have a much lower percentage of criminals than tlieir pro jiortionatc share in the occupations would give; 6th, thai labourers contribute more than their .share to every clas- of crime, their percentages being — crime 38.3 per cent. : population, 12 per cent. With respect to this latter clas-.. %&. CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 81 I' IS true, however, that the f.ropf.rtion of crime belonging tc. them IS so*newhat less than it was. the first three-year period giving tfaeni 39.7 per cent, of the crime. About 70 per cent, of the convictetl wer« born in Canada. As the native population is 87 per cent, of the whole popu- lation, the criminals in Canada born outside of the Domi- nion are more numerous relatively than the native-born, forming but 13 per cent, of the population anK. of the tliret; years 1900-1-.^ being 1^,755. Taken in j^roupv Ml the hrst period there was one person convicted of drunkenness in each group of 406 of the whole populati.,- anrl in tlu' lrist-inentioneeer, consumed in Canada during the period 1891-2-3 avcr aged 4.3J gallons (Imperial) per head of the population The average of the three years 1901-2-3 was 5.75 gallon^ In the first i)eriod the average annual quantity of beer con sumcd per head was 3.60 gallons, atid in 1901-2-3 it w„ 4.85 gallons, the consumption of spirits increasing from .73 gallons to .81. All the foregoing statements serve to show that the authorities charged with the maintenance of law and ord. r in Canada have the people weM in hand, and thait the peo[.l born in the cotintry h*ve less disposition to break int . • rime than the foreign population that finds its way int . the Dominion. Tt is, therefore, a gofid country for peaceable, law-abi. ing people to come to. X. INDUSTRIES OF CANADA. Dividing the industries of the country into the extr.-u tive and the constructive, wc find that in the extractiv. in- dustries of the country about 1,400 persons are engaged .., every group of 10,000 persons and about 800 in tlu- mechanical. The development of Canada follows closely the en t.nental lines, especially in the proportion of persons ,n tnt yre.it divisions of labour. CANADIAN FIANnUcjoK. •S I KRSONS IN KaCH lO.OlHK'.ROri' Engagkd in s i a« £ Is n 8 ■a a 2 •« •2 2 * i en ij 1 u. s o p — 1 tITo I.TH 1,377, l.rv.'l 1,529 3!f.' l.lfS.i 875 ' 7»;(i 791 444 439 5:il :»)> ;«») 28»i 2s:! \W 131 1 S!0 6l'l (il4 6Vt6 soft AK'riculture | i,(j()o liidustrv and Mioes } l,(i(M) Traile »nd Transportatiofi 452 i'mfesHiooal 15;{ N rvants ;>5jj It wil! be seen tliat the development of Canada is closely al'.ngr continental lines, and that in 1890 the divisions of '.(hour corresponded very inlimately to those of the United ~'ates 111 1880. es]>erially in the extractive and mechanical industries. Agriculture. In the s.ih.Iiviv.on of Agriculture, Canada takes high nnik. She has a fertile soil, a good climate, easy methods of •'aiisportation, and other characteristics which give her I re-eminence as a raiser of stock and grower of wheat and ■ith.r cereals >J the highest quality. A i>rief statefnent of the agricultural capabilities of each "f the provinces ix all that cm be given. Prince Edward Mnu<\ has an area of j,ioo square miles, 4y !^ CANADIAN HANDBOOK. II Much of the land is rich anH fertile, and when well cul- tivated yields good crops of grain. Professor Johnston, F.R.S.. of England, carci'iilly ex- amined into the capabilities of the soil of New Brunswick, and reported : — "1st. 'Ilif soil of N\w Uniiiswiik is capable of producing food for a population of five or six millions, and. In the capability of growing all the common crops on which man and beast depend the whole province, taken together, ex- ceeds the most favored parts of New York State. 3rd. The climate is an exceedingly healthy one, and it does not prevent the soil from producing crops which, other things !)cing equal, are not inferior in (|uality or quantity to those of average .soils in England." Considerable attention has been given in recent years to dairying. During 10 years the cheese factories and creameries have increased from in to 68, most of the in- crease being due to development in the past five or six years. The Province of Quebec has a laud area of over 218,000,- (XX5 of acres, of which more than one-half is in forest and woofiland. The surface is very varied, with ridgCi: of mountains and lofty hills, diversified with rivers and lakes. About 22 1-2 million acres have been alienated by the Crown — one-half as seignorial concessions and one-half to individuals. The climate varies much in diflferent parts of the province, but the winter weather is steady and the atmosphere clear and bracing, with a good depth of snow, which gives excellent sleighing. The summer is warm and j)!easant. and vegetation advances rapidly. Much of the country is well adapter! for farming, the soil being Inamy and fertile. The principal cereal crops are nats, Iieas. buckwheat, barley, rye, and maize. Potatoes and turnips are largely grown. Cattle are kept in increasing numbers, the number of milch cows beinjr greater in 1891, .ucording to the census of that year, than in 1871 by 35 I'T cent., and in 1901 greater than in 1891 by 40 per cent. j. ^ i fi ;; I M C\NADIAN HANtUiOOK. lobacco 15 an important crop in thr province. Fniit- nrc fjrt.un rca.iily in some of the n...rc /avor<-tcrn 'iownships fruit frrowinK - carried on to a cr.nsiderable extent. As in the other provin.v>, ... i„ Onehcc resp.ctini: 'lairMnp. ttpon vvhi.li much aiU nti-.t, l,as been bestowcil .hiring' the past ten years. in iSSr Ouebec had 140 chees, factoru's and .•_. crcanieri.s. I,. ,s.,i .she had 617 rhee- factories and 111 creameries. Tn i.^oi tlur,- were 1,9^)2, i •ill. showinj; an increase of i.j/,4 fact- rj^., while the va'hi. ■>f products increase- The i)rovince has tiie larRest btifur fa. lories in the Dominion. -Ontario has a land area of ?4.',ooo,(xx) acres (j.-mmh, square miles), over ioo..k)o scpiare miles beinp forest at! vvoo.lland. |!y the census the total of improved lands i.. th. province was i^.2C^<>.x^^ acres, of which .).2i3.fx)i, w.v. "".(XKv 00 bushels; ,,at .'3 vears : s, 7->.4i2,ooo bushels; M .800,000 bushels: peas. i3,55o,(x)o bushels; barl mai/f V*<().(KK) bushel s; potatoes, 18.230.000 bushels; turn ey. il>s. ofo.ofxi bushels; mangel wurtzels, ir,,cK)0.(x» busheb rots. 3,6oo.tKX3 bushels. The crop of hav ."I.I- 3.500.000 t.ms. and clover ua~ The crops for iacco, and it has been demonstrated that Canada will nt ed but little of the weed beyond that grown in her own I 'orders. The live stock of the province also shows an increase, tiiilih cows having increased in 1903 over 1899 by 75.634, .111(1 numbering in the latter year 1.050,108. Other horned inttle (not oxeij) increased by 280,756, from 1.342,614 in iSr^Q. Swine increased considerably, but the rapidly grow- MiaoCOfV RESOWTION TBI CHART (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) J /APPLIED \M/V3E I K '653 EqsI Moin Street 'i» Roctiester. New York U609 USA ^ (716) 482 - 0300 - Phone S (''6) 288-5989 - Fo« S8 CANADIAN HANDBOOK. ing demand for Canadian bacon has prevented a great in- crease. Sheep have not held their own. though conditions are most favourable for this industry. beJnZr'rtZ:! ?'7 "*"l" '''' development has Hshed L «cc ^"^f^^t'^'-y "taking cheese was estah- n iSo I '7' ;r°"' "'' f "*^' •" ^«S6 and a third «n I860. In 1871 the province had 323 cheese factories and a total of 574 !„ jSgi 45 creameries and 893 cheese fac tones, a total of 938. In 1901 there were 2S creameries and X X67 cheese factories, a total of 1.453 establishments I he number does not tell all the tale, the later factories bemg larger and better equipped than the earlier ones Adjoining the western extremity of Ontario is the Pro vmce of Man toba. with an area of over 47 million acres" rhe surface as somewhat level, with stretches of praTr L intersected here and there bv wide vallevs in °. .P, ^' small rivers and streams, the banks of t?: i^^ ^ '"" more or less fringed with^ree?"Ll ^ ^L ^ the whole prov nee is fnrpcf ^„a „, . ^ ^ ^" °' .«rt r.t 4.U ^ .,.^ '^ sorest and woodland. The m-eatpr Z^^;^:^^ 't,:t'-' r- -'^^ -getabier:;: bushels, according to the staLe^fs of 2 r ^^'"^'"^ officials. Oats fielded 3"c^r"u e ^r?m^^;:^:^ H.v'?'^ l''i^ °^ P°*^*°" '' '^'^^' ^"^ considerable area is re7 fnd ve v'cld^'^ '^TV' "^^"'^^^^ '« warm i^u:! \\ZZ "^"'^ '^'^ '" ^'"t^"-. b"t the air is dry and bracing Wmter usually sets in by the latter part of NovemberTnd ■s nearly over by the end of March, although froTtsoccu frequently at nights for several weeks later. The quantities of cheese and butter made in the pro- vince have increased very much. I„ ,881 there were „o returns of cheese factories or creameries.. I„ iggr there were reported 8 creameries and 23 cheese factorieTand" y MoiNT Sir Donald, Banff, Ai.bkrta CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 8> iQOi, 26 creameries and 43 cheese factories— a condition which indicates a development of more than twice that of 1891. The indications all point to Manitoba becoming a great cattle raising region. Westward f-om Manitoba are the four provisional terri- tories of the Canadian Xorthwcst. Assiniboia has a total area of 88,880 square miles; Saskatchewan of 107,618 square miles; Alberta, 101,883, and Athabasca, 251,965 square miles. These great divisions, extending from the western boundary of Manitoba to the Rocky Mountains, are partly traversed by railways, which have opened up the country for settlement. A comparatively small population is scattered over this immense area, containing over 350,000,- 000 acres, a large portion of which could be utilized for farming purposes. To 1900 about 7,000,000 acres have been transferred to farmers, and under r, 000,000 are occupied by ranches. Settlement has gone on very rapidly during recent years. The wheat produced in the Northwest Territories in 1902 was nearly 14,000,000 bushels. Broad and level or rolling plains characterize the Terri- tories along their southern boundaries, and a wide belt lying north of the 49th parallel, extending from about the 102nd parallel of west longitude to the base of the Rocky Moun- tains, has a dry climate, caused probably by the hot winds which blow northward from the great American desert. This portion of the Territories is estimated to contain neariy 65,000,000 acres. The soil of this more or less arid region is, as a whole, of a very fertile character, consisting mainly of a rich alluvial loam, broken in places by tracts of sand and gravelly ridges. The annual rainfall over this dry region varies at dififerent points from seven to fourteen inches, the mean of the whole area being 9.50 inches, the larger part of which falls in May, June and Tuly. With some additional water, supplied by artificial means, much of this land produces good crops. At the close of the season I -li I .-! ii ' •] u »0 CANADIAN HANDBOOK. ot 1901 there were 170 irrigation ditches and canals in opera- .on ,n southern Alberta and western Assiniboia. with a total length of 470 miles. These have a carrying capacitj ZuoTl ."' "T" '"-^''^ ''''''■ '^^'' '^^"'^-^ which hav^ fo lowed have been n,ost encouraging. There is now no reason to doubt tlK.t through irrigation a large portion of Alberta and Assin.boia will be rendered fruitful every year. The following describes the irrigation operations of th. ana.l,a„ Pac,fic Ry. Co-upany. The block of land is abou three „i, hons of acres ,„ extent, lying east of Calgary. The so,l in th.s vast area is first class, but during the greater number of the years the rainfall is not sufficient to supplv tlie needed quantity of transpiration to mature the crop^ 1 he water for irrigation in this block is taken from the Bow Kiver near Calgary in a main canal having a bed width of 60 feet and a water depth of 10 feet. This main canal is about 20 miles long, and from it the water is distributed through subsidiary canals, which will ultimately reach several hun.Ired miles in length. About one-half of the K.ock, or fifteen hundred thousand acres, can be irrigated the remaining half being devoted to grazing and dairy farming. ■' Beyond the spent force of the hot currents of air, begin- ning from 125 to 175 miles north of the International boun- dary, immense districts, partly wooded and well watered dmonr/ ' "^ f °'"] '' ^^°"^^^'-^""y "<^h and fertile, with con-' d.tions favorable for mixed farming and especiallv for the ra.sing of cattle and for dairying. There the' natural gra.sses grow far more luxurianTly than on the open prairie southward while the belts and clumps of woods [nte condi^f "'? T'^'" "' °P^" ^°""^'->'' ■''ff-^ favourab e conditions for he growing of grain, with good shelter fo stock. The climate ,n the Territories north of the dry belt .s much like that of Manitoba, and spring opens about the same time from the Red River to the Athabasca. In 1881 the Northwest Territories had no creameries and no cheese factories. In 1891 the census enumeration found CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 91 three creameries and four cheese factories. In 1900 there were 23 crc-nieries and cheese factorier. with an output of .Si2i,ooo. Further information about the Northwest Territories can be obtained from the pamphlets published by the De- partment of Interior, Ottawa, Canada. British Columbia, the Pacific Ocean Province of the Donn'nion, is 372,630 square miles in extent. West of the coast ran^o the climate is mild and genial, much like that of many parts of England, where the holly, laurel, rhododen- dron and the yew flourish with the apple, pear, plum, cherry and in some districts the peach and grape. In those parts of the province between the Coast range and the Rockies are many fine valleys, more or less utilized for farming and ranching. In some of these the rain-fall is not sufficient to admit of the successful cultivation of crops without irriga- tion ; there are, however, many mountain streams available .ui- this purpose, and on some of the ranches very fine crops of grain are grown, and excellent fruits, especially apples. The farm lands occupied amount to one and a half million acres, and the fruit trees planted include 220,684 apple trees of bearing age, the total of all kinds being 567,762 trees. Fisheries. The second of the extractive industries mentioned on page 82 is the fisheries. These arc the largest in the world, embracing over 5,6015 miles of sea coast on the Atlantic and 7.080 on the Pacific Oceans, in addition to inland seas, in- numerable lakes and a great number of rivers. With regard to their value, .statistics prove it to be fully ill proportion to their extent. The products of our fisheries, exported and sold on the Dominion markets in 1902, amounted to $22,000,000 ; but this by no means represents (lie value of the total catch, for in Canada the home con- sumption is very great— 100 pounds er inhabitant being calculated to 30 pounds in England. As the fisheries ex- tend throughout the length and brea.lth of the Dominion. i I H ^ ll •• CANADIAN HANDBOOK. almost every settler is afforded an opportunity for catching fish for domestic use. This renders it impossible to rive full returns of the whole catch. It is approximately esti- mated that the value of the home consumption last year was ? 1 3.000.000, giving a total of thirty-seven million dollars as the yield, exclusive of the catch by foreign fishermen. Professor Prince has summarized the fisheries of Canada : (i) The Atlantic division from the Bay of Fundy to the Coast of Labrador, embracing deep sea and inshore fisher- ies, cod, mackerel, haddock, halibut, herring, hake, lobster, oyster, seal and white whale fisheries. Annual value $12,000,000. (2) The estuarine and inland waters of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Quebec, includ- ing fisheries for salmon, shad, gaspereaux, striped bass, smelt, and (in the lakes) land-locked salmon, lake trout, maskinonge, etc., of the annual value of $2,500,000. (3) The great lakes of the St. Lawrence and tributary waters. Lake whitefish, great lake trout, lesser whitefish, sturgeon, pike, perch (pickerel), black bass, brook trout, maskinonge, pike and numerous carps. Value, $2,500,000. (4) Great Northwest lakes, including Manitoba, yield- ing lake white fish, sturgeon, pike, perch, tullibee, pike and gold eye. Value, including newly developed caviere and sturgeon sounds industries, $1,000,000. (5) Pacific interior or Rocky Mountain plateau, com- prising little developed fisheries, land-locked Pacific salmon, lake white fish, lake trout, river trout, and numerous cypri- nnids. none of them indentica! with eastern species. (6) Pacific Coast fisheries. Halibut, black cod, oolachan, anchovy, herring, smelt, and at least seven different species of Pacific salmon abound. (7) Hudson Bay and peri-Arctic area. Whale, walrus sea-trout, pike, sturgeon and possiblv salmon, cod and shad occur in these vast waters, Hudson Bay being an immense pocket 1,000 miles in length and 600 in width. The richest whaling grounds in the world are in this region. CANADIAN HANDBOOK. «3 OFFXciAi. Valuation ok tiik V1..1.1. oh thk Hishkkiks hv J'RoviNtKs: I'KOVINCR 1892 Nova Scotia.. « (l.;MO,724 New Brunswick 1 3 o^-j )»•'•> Prince Kdwanl Island "" I'lT't's^T British Columbia ■;::;■ 2;849;484 Uueliec .1 o3(j 730 Ontario '. ' ' H'oli^'lOS Manitoba anil Northwest Territories ? 08h'254 Total 1902 7 351,753 ;i,'.»l?,5U 887.024 6,284,824 2,05,'ed in the fishing industry was 59,49J, the number ot vessels 1,177. witli a tcmnagc of 48,728 tons and a value of $2,021 ,633. The number of boat^ was 28,47.', with a value of $852,257 ; t!ie number of fathoms of nets used was 3,014,384 and their value $i,2i«^,284. The total value of vessels, boats, nets, weirs, lobster traps, fish- houses, i)iers, sailing and steam smacks, connected with the fisheries amounting to $6,rx>7,45Q. In 1902 the number of men was 77,801 ; of vessels 1,296 ; tonnage 40,888 ; number of boats 41.667, and fathoms of nets, 5,623,700, the total amount invested being $ii,305,<(5(;. The number of men employed increased by one-third. The tonnage of the vessels and the number increased some- what. The number of boats increased by over 46 per cent., and tl. value of the plant used in connection with fishing increased by about 70 per cent. The number of men employed in vessels decreased by 416 ; the number of men employed in boats increased by 15-396. T:.e development therefore has been in the direction of boat fishing. The Dominion Government has provided fish breeding establishments, of which there are 16 in different parts of the country. From these, since 1874, when t' - policy of developing the fisheries by means of these estao.ishments was expanded, there have been 3,391 million of fry distri- buted—an annual average of 117 million. During the five years, 1894-98, the annual distribution averaged 231 million. The distribution has consisted of white fish, lobster, .Atlantic salmon, Great Lake trout and sockeyc salmon. The frj- distributed in 1902 consisted of salmon . . . 2t),2.i5,000 Lake trout 2,500,000 Lakewhitefish 108,000,000 Lobsters 120,000,000 Considerable attention is given to the cultivation of the oyster, and everything possible is done to maintain and expand the fisheries of Canada. CANADIAN HANDHOOK. H An intelligence bureau, with 35 reporting stations dis- tributed along the coast <.f the Maritime Provinces, gives timely warning to the rtshennen of a strike in of fish, of the weather, and of otlipr faits early informatiuii about which is import.'iiii to success. Bait did stor. ft 's also provided, and has orovcfl a success in the Province of Nova Scotia and on Prince Edward Island. Lumber Industry. The third great industry mentioned is the hunbering. The forests of Eastern Canada formerly extended in an almost unbroken stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the head of Lake Superior, a distance of over 2,000 miles. The great plains of the Northwest always, within the memory of man, have been sparsely lumbered. On the Pacific slopes of the Rocky Mountains, down to the shores of the ocean, there are mammoth trees that can favorably compare with the growth of any region on the globe. From the earliest days of its occupation by the French, the forest wealth of the country washed by the St. Lawrence River engaged the attention of the Home Governments, who saw therein vast resources available for their naval yards, and they drew from these forests large numbers of masts and spars and issued stringent regulations for the preservation' 01 the standing oak. When the country was ceded to the B-itish Government but litt. ttention was at first paid to its vast lumber supply, , .ng to the fact that almost the whole of the Baltic trade was carried in British bottoms, and that the lumber of Northern Europe provided an unfailing and : profitable return freight for the shipping thus engaged. When, how- ever, the troubles of the Napoleonic era began, and especi- ally when the continental blockade was enforced, the lumber supplies of t'-e Baltic became uncertain and insufficient. It was then that ihe lumber importers of Great Britain turned their attentior to tho Nohh American colonies, and found there not onlj all the lumber they required, but f^l 1 f !i ** CANADIAN HANDBOOK. ucciipation for ti.e va-st fleet ..f vessels IviiiK imemploycd in tlicir harbnrs. Tlu.s sve find that, while ir the year iS«J<> ..Illy some j/nro l..a.ls (e<|iial to 5^ tons) of lumber rcaihfd f ,reat ISritain. in 1810 there were 125.300 loads, and in i8j() about 3o8,cxk) loads. When the war dntios inipos*.! on wood of Eiiropcin k'rowth were j^radnaliy rediieed it was feared that the Canadian pn.dnct would no lotiper be able to hnki its posi- tion in the KnRlish market, handicapped as it was by the short season of navijfation and the heavy charges for ocean freight and instiraiue then current. These fears, however, proved gMundlcss, as the following figures show:— 1850 exported to the United Kingdom 1,052,817 loads. 1859 " " " 1,248,069 " 1872 " •• " 1,211,772 •• 1881 '• •• " 1,30,301 " 1891 " '• " 1.044,641 " •902 • " " 1,733.291 " These figures represent years of normal trade; for the timber trade, like every other, has its periods of depression and inflation. A noticeable feature in these returns is the steady de- cline in the quantity of square timber exported to England and a corresponding increase in the quantity of sawn or manufactured woods. Thus in the first year of Confedera- tion (i8r)7) tlic exj) 1) ts of tiiuhcr from Canada formed 42 per i-ent. of the exponed timber and manufactured wood. In 1902 it formed but 7 per cent, of the two classes. This is entirely in favour of the Canadian limit-holder and his employees, the greater labour expended on the manufac*- • being beneficial both to the capital and to the lab -.ir ... .mada. During the early part of the century the export lumber trade of Canada was confined to the I'nited Kingdom and the West Indies. A great change, however, has taken place. The pine lands of the North Eastern and Western I. Ip CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 07 States of the United States have become depleted and un- able to meet the requirements of the trade in those States. The result is that the resources of Canada have been drawn upon to such an extent that during the period of Confedera- tion (1868-1903) the exports to the United States form a total of 362 million dollars, an average of $10,000,000 a year, the average of the first ten years being $8,100,000, and for the last $13,900,000; showing an increasing reliance upon the forest wealth of Canada. Timber was long the staple article of Canada's export trade, but with the development of the country it now ranks after the products of the farm. Taking logs, lumber and other products of the forest, the total exports in 1868 amounted to $18,800,000, and in 1903 to $36,430,000. In the same years the exports of Canadian farm products increased from $19,700,000 to $114,500,000. While the lumber interest does not occupy, relatively, the important position it did in the export trade of the country, it yet forms an important addition to the revenues and wealth of the country. In addition to the very large sums invested in timber limits, the capital invested in saw- mills and in other industries having wood for their chief raw material, amounts to nearly $120,000,000, paying wages of over thirty million dollars a year and having an annual output of one hundred and twenty-five million dollars. The forest wealth of Canada is very great. Taken with exports, the per capita consumption is about 300 cubic feet a year. For many years the pine saw logs floated down to and past Ottawa on the Ottawa River have numbered nearly four million annually. The production in the census year npi of logs, ])ine, spruce and other, was 33,538,000 standard logs — each having 100 feet board measure. The total value of the raw products of the forest in the census year i8, 1-2 per cent, in 1891. The development of mining since i8qi has been more iai)id than previously. Greater care has been bestowed on the management of the mines. Skill in administration and skilled labor have been brought to bear upon the mining itidustrv with important results. Thus, in 1888, the num- Iht of tons of coal raised in Nova Scotia, per man employed, v ar< 339, in 1894 it was 370 tons and in 1903 it was 473 tons. The annual returns to the geological survey give the value of the minerals produced in the Dominion since 1886. The total since 1886, including 1903, amounts to $307,- (-54,000. The development may be judged by the average of three year periods. 1886-88 Annual Average ?1 1 ,355,500 1889-91 •:" " 16,584,627 1892-94 " " 18,532,452 1895-97 " " 23,995,525 1898-01 " " 50,928,725 1902-03 (2 years) Annual Average 6;5,596,i;4 m fANADlAX HANDBOOK. Dividinp tlic t..i,,Is into metallic and non-metallic, w. nave : — 1880-1888 Metallic o ., ■.'>,22r) Non-Metallic . .".■.■.■. '. '. '. '. .' .' [ .' '. . .' ." ; " s,Kin,2H0 lSSO-1' l!Si>2-18<,i4 4.()<).-),Hl-) : ».339,247 12,205,4K5 14,273,2(14 1895-1897 Metallic Non-Metallic. 9,329,!»()9 14,41.-),(il0 189<(-l!tOI l',M)2-!!)():i H7,3:t!,5«i!» 22,ti:;;i,724 34,r„so,:.,'-.-, 2(i,ll8,0:;,s Since 1886-8 metallic have gained $32,405,360 Smce 1886-8 non-metallic have gained. .$20,287,758 The greate.st gain has been, therefore, in the output of metallic mineral.s. Of these the most important are:— Copper, which has risen from an average value of $454,629 in 1886 to $5,728,- 267 in 1903: gold, from $1,202,563 to $18,834,490; lead, from $12,230 to $762,660; nickel, from nothing to $5,026,000, and silver from $317,932 to $1,700,779. _ In the non-metallic group the greatest gains are :— Coal trom $5,000,000 to $15,957,946; graphite from nothing to $.',3,500; mica, from $29,677 to $159,473; natural gas, from nothing to $268,000. The mineral wealth of Canada is so great that an Ameri ran authority, referring to i says :-" To particularize th. undeveloped wealth of this northern land would require- volumes." As might be expected from her vast areas and from her varied geological formations, Canada is marvellously rci, m mmcrals, the chief of which of economic importance according to the reports of the (Geological .Survev ir •' classed as follows : — - • • ' CANADIAN HANDIiiKiK. 103 1. Metals and their Ores. 2. Minerals used in certain nianufactures. 3. Minerals used in Agriculture. 4. Minerals used as Pigments. j;. Combustible and Carbonaceous materials. 6. Refractory minerals. 7. Minerals applicable to Building. 8. Minerals for grinding and polishing. 9. Minerals applicable to miscellaneous purposes. Metals and their ores. — Sir William Dawson, writing on the Iron and Coal of Nova Scotia, says : — " It is a remark often made that the iron ores of Canada, rich and magni- ficent though they are, suffer in their practical value on account of their distance from the mineral fuel required in so great quantity whenever smelting processes are under- taken on a large scale. To a certain extent better means of communication and larger and more economical working mast remove this disadvantage. It should, however, be borne in mind that the great iron deposits of Nova Scotia, equal in extent and value to any others in the Dominion, are not so situated ; but are in close proximity to some of the greatest coal fields in the world." During recent years business men have appreciated the importance of the iron deposits of the eastern part of the Dominion. Smelting works have been erected at a large cost in Sydney, Cape Breton, in close proximity to the famous coal areas and to the great limestone deposits of the same island. The active works in Canada are (i) the Xova Scotia Steel Company's blast furnace of Ferrona, Nova S tia ; (2) The Hamilton Steel and Iron Company; (3) The Canada Iron Furnace Company, Midland ; (4) The Domi- nion Iron and Steel Company's works at Sydney, Cape Breton; (5) The Canada Iron Furnace Company, Radnor; (6) Deseront > Iron Company's works ; (7) The Drummond- ville Furnaces; (8) The Londonderry Nova Scotia Iron Works. The united investment at these works amounts to $35,000,000. 104 • ANADIAN HANDBOOK. I The Dominion, in iqoo, made and imported 167,169 tons of pig iron, iron kentledge and scrap. Of this amount, 101,830 tons, or 61 per cent., were made in Canada. In 1902, the total quantity was 384,718 tons, of which 89 per cent, was home made. When Canada began seriously to develop the iron wealth, she offered a bounty of $1.50 per ton upon all pig iron manufactured in Canada. This was in 1883. Since then vanous changes have been mado in the amount of bounty and the method of its application. The result however, is the gradual development of the iron industry! In 1884 the imported pig iron was 64 per cent, of the whole consumed. In 1902 the imported pig iron was only 11 per cent, of the whole consumption. Magnetic ores occur abundantly thrfuighout the several counties of Ontario; and the Legislature of the province has set aside the sum of $125,000 as an Iron Mining Fund out of which the Provincial Treasurer is authorized to pay ?i.oo per ton of pig metal product of iron ores raised, mined or smelted in Ontario. Hematite iron ores are found in all parts of Canada. C^eologically, Canada's hematites have a wide range in time Ihey are found in the Laurentian, Huronian, Lower and Upper Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Lia:. forma- tions. In New Brunswick large deposits of hematite ore are found near Woodstock, and the iron produced is remark- able for its great hardness and strength. When converted into wrought iron, it is pronounced, on the authority of Sir Wilham Fairbairn, to be specially adapted for the plating of ironclad vessels. It is also admirably adapted for steel Chromic Iron ores and Titanic iron ores are found in different parts of Quebec. Since these chromic fields were opened, there have been shipped about 12,000 tons of chromite. Limonite and botr iron ores are also widely distributed Clay iron-stones are found in rocks of various ages in all the provinces. Those of the Tertiary Age occur in the «'ANAI>IAN HANI>IU)OK. lOS lignite-bearinfr strata, west of Red Rivet Of these, Dr. (icorge M. Dawson, Director of the Geological Survey, writes : — "Should these ores ever come to he workfniK>K. Tlie statisfirs .,f export siitrui.ntiv in.lii-.itc the extent «.f the .Uvfloimunt aii.I tlu- i-n.vimis in wlii.li that ' vel-.i. nicnt has taken place. In rR.)() tlie i|nantity niine.l in Canada was 10.300 Ihs. In iHt)oi-2 it lias risL-n to an average of nearly 70^000.000 ihs. In i«<^) the valne of lead and manufactures of lead imported was !5i4j.58<). aii.I in k/)^ it was $164,392. British Columbia is the preat source of lead for Canada. It is there mined chiefly as an ore of silver. Small veins occur in the Provinces of (Ontario, Nova Scotia and New I'runswick. (•oppcr.-i!,is occurs in Cana.la in the forms of native -.r .Metallic copper and of the sulphuretted ores The f.-rnur is confuu.l principally t.. the rocks of the upper copper-bearing series tm Lake Superior. The latter are widely dilTused. In (->ntario, on the north-eastern shore of Lake Huron, extensive veins of rich .•oi)per ores have been mined for years, often with great |)rofii. (^ . Lake Superior the native copper, wl-.ich has been .^o extensively and profitably worked on the Michigan shore, also exists in large quantities on the Canadian shore. In Quebec and the other Eastern provinces, especially in Cape Breton Island, deposits of copper have been found and in many cases mined. In the Eastern Townships of Quebec, the c.ipper occurs in sniail quantities in the pyrites mined chiefly for the production of sulphuric acid. In the Province of Ontario, the nickel copper mines of the Siidl)ury district are the chief source of copper. British Columbia has only recently come into the field as a copper producer. Its copper comes mainly from the Xclson mining district of West Kootonay. The real value of the ore lies in the g..ld and silver it contains. A few hundred tons of fair copper ore have been shipped from J exada Island. In a paper read before the Institute of Mining Engineers in September, 1899, Mr. \Vm. M. Brewer says :— " It may CANADIAN HANfUMMiK M lie safi'ly said that the wc.-.tcrn portion of Vamotivcr IislantI pri'sonts t(i-(lav ft'atiircs of cn-at pruiniHo so far as copper (It-posits are coficcrncd." The export tables of the Dominion show that since Con- federation 8«v>H6 tons of fine copper and 136,000 tons of copper ore liave been exported. The value of the whole is over $19,000,000, an average of $530,000 a year. In the year u;o3, the vahie of the export was $2,907,394, thus show'p^ the flevelupment that has taken place of recent years. Nickel. — Canada has hnt one serious rival in the produc- tion of this metal — the French colony of New Caledonia. The deposit in Sudbury, Ontario, is nickelifcrous |)yrrhotitc, and the discovery was made by the navvies of the Canadian Pacific Railway, while making a cutting through a small hill. Since work began, thirteen years ago, 67,000,000 pounds have been extracted, an average of over 5,OfX).ooo pounds a year. The extent of the development that has taken place may be measured by tiic fact that the output in 1903 ^mounted to over I2,.soo,ooo pounds. As a result of the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the consequent discovery of the Sudbury deposit, over thirty million dollars of this scarce metal have been taken out. Gold. — This metal has been found in almost all of the Provinces and Territories of Canada. Praucally, however, its production is limited to the Provinci of Nova Scotia and British Columbia and the new district of Yukon, which, containing the Klondike region, has sprung to the front within the past few years. Of the $200,000,000 of gold which Canada has contri- buted to the world's store, British Columbia's share is 80 v.iillion dollars, Nova Scotia's 16 1-2 million, Ontario's 2 million, Quebec 290,000, the remainder coming from the Northwest Territories, and chiefly from Yukon district. Tn the Province of Nova Scotia gold mining has been a very steady industry, the annual average output since the discovery, in 1862, being $400,000, growing to $556,000 average of five years, 1899-1903. 108 I'ANAl.IAN HANDnooK. The gold produced in Nova Scotia is by quartz mining, no placers of any importance having been discovered. In earlier years the quartz seldom ran below $12 per ton. From 1862 to 1903, 1,554.308 tons of quartz have been crushed, showing the production of gold to be at the rate of $10.50 per ton. In 1903 the value was $5.17 per *on. The cause of this is that the extraction of gold is carried on more scientifically and economically now than it was in the early years, and that thus it has become pro- fitable to treat low grade ores. In the Province of Quebec not much mining for gold has been performed. While gold has been produced in Ontario for several years, it is only since the establishment of the Bureau of Mines that any well-directed effort has been made. In 1891 the value of the gold reported found in Ontario was only $2,000. In 1899 the output reached high-water mark, and the value of the product was $424,568. In 1902 the product was valued at $229,828. Much developmental work has been done during the past year, and repprts are favourable for a large increase. In the Saskatchewan District of the Xorthwest Terri- tories a small quantity of gold is obtained from the bars in the Saskatchewan river, near Edmonton. The amount varies from year to year, the highest being $51^,000. The total thus procured since 1887 is $282,946. British Columbia has been a producer of gold since 1862. The earlier years were prolific of gold yield. There was a decrease in the production from 1882, and the lowest point was reached in 1893, when the product of the year had a value of $379,000. A change came, and production increased rapidly. The million dollar mark was reached in 1895. The two million dollar mark in 1897; the four million in 1899; the five million in 1901, and the six million in 1903. The Yukon District of the Northwest Territories has been yielding gold since 1885. It is only, however, within a very recent period tliat the gold deposits of the Klondike 1 ^ *9 k iu - ,^ fS u=^ ::;;:^^;Ki|t^^l w m^ ,.;:1 ^1 ^^^^^H ^ H ^ 1^ 11 1 |!FTrr':'*fafe^B J MiM CANADIAN HANDBOOK. IM section have attracted the attention of the world. The value of the product sprung from $300,000 in 1897 to an average for the past four years of $17,000,000 a year. Full particulars respecting the gold deposits of Canada can be obtained from the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, for the Northwest Territories and from the several Provincial Governments, whose offices are: — In Nova Scotia, at Halifax ; in Quebec, at the City of Quebec ; in Ontario, at Toronto, and in British Columbia, at Victoria. Silver. — The two Provinces of Ontario and Quebec are producers of sUver in small quantities. The Province of British Columbia is the chief producer. In the " seventies " Ontario produced from a mine on Silver Islet, near the mouth of Thunder Bay, Lake Superior, a considerable quantity of silver. In British Columbia silver was .produced at the rate of a few thousand ounces a year. It was, however, in 1895 that the production went over a million ounces. The re- turns of the Dominion Geological Survey give the produc- tion of iQOi at 5,151,333 ounces. The total production of the province from 1887 to 1901 amounted to 27,870,892 ounces. T'^c total production of the three provinces in the same i)enod was 31.934,607 ounces. Other metals. — .\niong other metals found in Canada are cobalt, zinc and platinum. Of minerals used in certain ch -i !cal manufactures, Canada has iron pyrites, chromium, magnesia, manganese, titanium and molybdenum. Of minerals used in agriculture, ai)atitc, gypsum, marl and salt arc widely diffused. Gypsum is found in great abundance in Ontario, the outcrop extending from Niagara River to Lake Huron for 150 miles. In Quebec the supplies come mainly from the Magdalen Islands. Extensive and practically inexhaustible beds are found in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The salt produced in the Dominion is almost all manu- factured in the Province of Ontario. The .salt beds of southwestern Ontario cover an area of 2,000 square miles. uo CANADIAN HANDBOOK. They were discovered first at Goderich, in 1865, in boring for petroleum, and since then wells have been sunk at a dozen other places. In Kincardine the upper bed is reached at about 900 feet from the surface; in Goderich at 1,000 feet; in Courtright at 1,600 feet. A well drilled in VVmdsor in 1892 yielded salt at a little over 1,127 feet. Subsequently another well was drilled by the same com- pany—the Canadian Pacific Railway Company— near the first. In each case the company drilled through 40 feet of rock salt, then encoimtered rock 23 to 30 feet thick, then a second layer of salt 23 feet thick, then rock 5 feet thick, and then 38 feet of salt. Among minerals used for pigments are iron ochres, which are found and extensively manufactured in Quebec and Ontario, and in smaller quantities in the eastern pro- vinces. Sulphate of barytes is also widely distributed. The fifth subdivision includes combustible and carbon- aceous materials. The coal areas of Canada are estimated at 97,200 square miles, not including areas in the far north-.known, but as yet undeveloped. These are :— 1. The coal fields of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 2. 1 hose of the Northwest Territories. 3. Those of the Rocky Mountains. 4- Those of British Columbia. The t„al areas of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick cover about 18,000 square miles. The productive areas arc divided into (a) The Cape Breton area. (b) The Pictou area. Cc) The Cumberland area. These are all in the Province of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick containing seams of sufficient magnitude to bo worked, but nothing has yet been done to develop them OANADIAX HAXDHOOK. Ill The known productive coal fields of Nova Scotia occupy an area of about rV)o square miles, of wliicli the Sydnev and Cumberland fields comprise 650 square miles, tbe remainder beinp divided between the Pictou and the smaller fields of Antiponish and Cape Breton. The number of collieries is as follows : — Cumberland, 6, viz. : — Jop^ffins, Minudie, Chignecto, Fundy, Scotia and Sprinpbiil. Pictou, 3, viz.: — Intercolonial, Marsh and Acadia. Cape Breton. 8, viz. :— Cape Breton, Dominion, Sydney. North Sydnev, IVfabou, Port Hood, Inverness Railway and Cowrie and Blockhouse. The sales from all in 1003 amounted to 4.62T.074 tons, of which over 70 per cent, came from the Cape Breton col- lieries, the remainder beinsr chiefly distributed between the Pictou and tbe Cumberland collieries, in the proportion of l',^ per cent, from the first named and 11 per cent, from the second. ^ Durintr t'.venty-five venrs the total outt)ut of the coal mines of Nova Scotia has been 60,000,000 tons, an average of 2,380,000 tons per annum. The output of 1003 was 5,255,247 tons. The Dominion Coal Companv have begun operations on a large scale for the manufacture of iron and steel, and these will result in an immense development in the pro- duction of coal. The scams in the Cape Breton basin vary in thickness from 5 to Q feet. In the Pictou basin they vary from 6 feet to 34 feet 7 inches in thickness. TaKing one analysis from each coal field in Nova Scotia, we have — MiNHS Svdni'V. C. B.' Moisture Volatile combustion. MxLfl carbon Ash p. c. 1.54 ;!6.3() o7.(il Intercolonial, I'ictou I p. c. 1.52 L'i).40 iiO.08 i !".00 ! Sprinjj Hill. Cunibtrlaixl .■5.66 2S.55 (>L'.78 4..S2 lit CANADIAN HANDBOOK. The coal found in Nova Scotia is bituminous, and is in nearly all cases coking. It is a true coal from the middle or productive measures of the carboniferous division. All the Nova Scotia coal fields are on tide water. There are no coal measures from New Brunswick west- ward until Manitoba is reached. Of the Manitoba and Northwest Territories, the late Dr. Geo. M. Davv.son, Director of Geolopical Survey, says: — " The known areas of true and lignite coals of the best quality extend along the base of the Rocky Mountains from the 40th parallel to the vicinity r' Peace River, a distancc of 500 miles, with an average width of, say, 100 miles, giving a total area of 50,00c square miles. It is not in- tended to affirm that the whole of this area is continuously underlain by coal, but outcrops of coal are so general throughout it that, taken in connection with the character and regularity of the strata, it may be stated with safety that it is throughout a coal field. .\n additional area stretching eastward as far as the Souris River and Turtle Mountains yields lignites only, but these, ofte . of very good quality and well fitted for local uses, may be roughly esti- mated at 15,000 square miles." The third coal area of Canada is that in the Rocky Mountains. This, though small as measured by miles, con- tains much coal of the best quality. One of these areas has been found to hold several seams of anthracite of very good quality. Those in the Cascades Basin have an area of sixty s(|uare miles. The small coal area of Crow's Nest Pass i< very rich. From the Territories the coal accounted for as produced was 456,000 tons in 1808, of which 20,000 tons were anthra- cite. The fourth area is that of the Pacific Coast. Vancouver Island contains two productive coal areas — Nanaimo an and the second 300 square miles in extent. A very rough approximation gives 800 square miles as the extent of the coal areas (chiefly anthracite) of Queen Charlotte Islands. CANADIAN HANDBOOK. ItJ In quality the Vancouver Island bituminous coals are found to be superior for all practical purposes to any other coals on the Pacific Coast. They rank in San Francisco with the West Hartley coals. These widely-spread coal deposits on Vancouver Island entitle the Province to be called the Britain of the North Pacific. The output of the coal mines of British Columbia, be- ginning in 1874 with 90,000 tons, has steadily increased, and in 1903 was 1,660,000 tons. In the Comox district the productive measures show ten seams of coal v/ith a total of 29 feet 3 inches, the thickest seam being 10 feet. The character cf the coal is evidenced by the following average analysis of the nine mines in the Crow's Nest field, and of 13 mines on Vancouver Island: — Crow's Nest. Vancouver Islaml. Moisture -91 1-55 Volatile combUBtive 19.01 31.70 Fixed carbon 69.94 52.72 Ash 9-83 10.24 Asbestos. — The asbestos deposits of Canada are found in the rock group known as the serpentines, occurring in many parts of the Dominion. In the Eastern Town.ships of the Province of Quebec large workable deposits are located, and there the chief mining operations are carried on. The production has steadily increased. In i88o the output was 380 tons, valued at $24,700. In 1903 the ex- port of asbestos and asbestic was 30,661 tons, valued at $955,405. Mr. R. W. Ells, LL.D., of the Canadian Cleolo- 5,ncal Survey, has issued recently a pamphlet (MI Asbestos in Canada. Next in order are the refractory minerals. Canada has of these : plumbago, mica, soapstone, and sandstone. The plumbago is a pure crystaline, and is widely dis- tributed. The others mentioned are very generally dis- tributed. Materials for brick, pottery and glass abound. Lime- stone for common lime is abundant, as also are aigillaceoi.s limestones and domites yielding good hydraulic cement. 114 CANADIAN HANDHOOK. 19 CriiKliiifj and polishing .naterials are found in all the piovinccs. Corundum has been found recently in con- siderable quantity, and the Ontario Bureau of Mines (Re- port for i8q7) published a report of forty or fifty pages on the subject of corundum in that province. Of building stones, Canada possesses an abundance. Granite, comparing favorably with the best granites of other countries, is found in many localities. Sandstones of various colors and textures abound. The collection of marbles in the Geological Museum at Ottawa indicates a |)rofusion of all kinds. Flagstones, roofing slates, litho- graphic stones, etc., are abundant and of good quality. Agates, amethysts and jasper are found in the Lake Superior region and in. other parts of Canada. There are numerous mineral springs in different parts of Canada, and mineral waters are bottled, nearly a million dollars of output being reported in the census. Manufactures. The constructive industries of Canada have been de- veloped to a very considerable degree. When Canada presented herself before the world in the Paris Exhibition of 1855 she could only tell of 28 or 30 different manufactures established in the country. There were saw mills, grist mills, carding mills, woollen mills, dis- tilleries, tanneries, breweries and foundries of small size and number. The others w^re still fewer and smaller. The best that the Hand Book of 1855 could say was that the most important of the manufactures was that of shipbuild- ing, the number of ships built in Quebec city, the chief scat of the industry, having been 48 in 1853, valued at $ 2,500,- 000 : that the St. Maurice River iron mines employed 300 hands; that considerable progress had been made in the development of manufactures requiring iron and steel for their bases, such as locomotives, carriages, edge tools, agri- cultural implements, etc.: that cotton manufacture was very small; that woollens were made on a somewhat ex- tensive scale; that 1,631 saw mills were producing 722,- • •AXADIAN HANDIIOOK. 115 rxo.otx) fet't (.f hiiiilHT per annuiii, ami that jjrist mills mim- bercd under 1,200. reqiiirinfj a cajjital of $5,fxxi,0(xj. Tlie wliole indiistrial class niinibcrcil a little over 7r,ooo. By the year i8f)i the 30 different niannfactnres of 1851 had expanded into 300, and the number of the industrial class into 370,000. The census returns of 1891 show that the number of manufacturing and mechanical establishments increased from 49,722 in 1881 to 75,968 in 1891, an increase of 53 per cent.; that the capital invested increased from $164,958,000 to $354,621,000, an increase of n^, per cent., and that the value of the output increased from $3oc„7oo,ooo to $476,- 200,000, an increase of 53 per cent., notwithstanding the very great drop in prices between 1881 and 1891. The census of 1901 was taken on a different plan, only those industrial establishments employing five or more hands being taken by the agents of the department in charge of the census. The result of a comparison on this basis is that, while the number of establishments having five hands and over shows, as compared with 1891, a de- creas'e, the total annual output of finished material shows an increase of $94,2i6,0(^j, the figures heinj,- S453,-'9S.7J« in 1901 and $359,082,636 in 1891. Under the stimulus of the abrogation of the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 the cheese industry had a rapid develop- ment. As is natural in a country so largely a wooded country, the manufacturing industries connected with wood form a large proportion of the total. The capital invested in these amounted to 28 per cent, of the total capital invested in "lanufacturing in 1891, and to 25 per cent, in U)oi. The development of manufactures connected with foods is also a natural development. The only return in 1855 in this connection was. that of urist mills, with a capital of $5,000,000 Bakeries were i\w and far between, the bread used being mostly home made. u« fANAIHAN HANDHftOK. DKVHLOrMKNT OF KXPORTS OF CHIUCSI- FROM CANADA Total Value of Cheese Export* of Canada, iSti'J-lUOo $3li»,;5«(0,()0*' f CANADIAN HANDn(^>K. UT There were no cheese factories, and hut h'ttle cheese was made in the home;- of Canada, the census returns of 1851 jfivinfj a total of 4 .2,oc» pounds as the year's make of home-made. Much of the cheese consumed was imported from tlic United States. The factory-madj article was added to the home-made, and the total of the two in 1890 was 114,082,000 pounds, or nearly thirty times the amount of 1851. In 1900 the joint produce was 227,905.250 pounds, or fifty-seven time^ the produce of 1851. From bcinfj dependent on the United States for its cheese, Canada is now the largest exporter among the world's countries, our exports in 1903 having beea 230,000,000 pounds. In 1891 the total capital invested in manufactures having vegetable and animal foods for their bases was $42,700,000, flour and grist mills having increased their capital from the amount already given for 1851 to over $23,000,000. In Kjoo the capital employed in these industries, taking only establishments with five hands and over, was over 50 million dollars. The canning industries are of comparatively recent growth. Still, in 1891 the capital invested in canning in- dustries was about $9,000,000. This amount has been largely increased since then. In printing and publishing, hank note engraving and the like, the capital invested in 1891 amounted to $10,500,000; in carriage making to nearly $11,000,000; in drinks and stimulants, to nearly $27,500,000; breweries having a capi- tal of $8,533,000, and sugar refineries nearly $6,000,000. The census of 1901, with the limitation already mentioned, showed an increase of capital invested in these industries of 46 per cent. There was a great growth in the number of establish- ments for the preparation of aerated waters, the value of tlic out-put for the year being over three-quarters of a niillion dollars. In the manufacture of tobacco, cigars, etc., the sum of over 7 million dollars was invested in 1901. ■ I ; us CANADIAN HANDnOOK. In the inanufactiirc- of leather, boots and shoes, harness, there has been a preat development, the capital employed in 1891 being returned at nearly $22,000,000. ( Hir iarj^esl cities and towns had been li<;bled with ^'a^ some years before the I'aris I-Ixhihitir.n of 1S55 took ])lace, but the use of jjas was only be.ninniiij,' to l)ecome jj;eneral. ( )f course the ap|>lication of electricity was unknown. l!y the census of 1891 the capital invested in lighting appliances was ?2i,335,ooo, an increase during the decennial period 1881-91 of $13,500,000. Returns for the year 19*13 show that the country has over 50 million dollars invested in electric light and power plants. In the manufacture of textile fabrics and dress materials, Canada could not do very much in the earlier exhibitions. Since then there has been great imi)rovenient, and the total capital invested in 1900 in the.se branches was $55,744,ax). of which $18,300,000 was in cotton mills and $10,500,000 in woollen mills. Divided somewhat empirically into classes, the census of h;oi gives the following results (factories emploving five hands and upwards) :— Articles. Ciipit.il. Arms .111(1 Kmiminitlon 1.675,675 Hooks, priiitiiiiEr, &c 17,235,971 ('MirliiKes, &<• 14,941,702 rii.inicals. &c 4,607,778 Drinks aiicl sliniuliints. . . 39,340,286 FHjrouR material — -Twine, &i' 3.901,905 ImkxI.s, vegetable — Grist mills, &o 24,781,251 Foods, animal — ■ F;.ctory i-iieesc, &c 13,896,363 Purnitun', houses and buildiiiRs 22,409,724 Cold and silver 2,260,430 Leather, boots and shoes, &c 21,558,894 Wage Value of Kariiers. I'roduit. 611 1.034,000 10.724 13,796,151 14,453 19,420.999 1,837 5,017,750 11,275 36,034,328 2,621 4.211,806 15,705 47,492,461 18,030 31,951,369 17,163 24,988,932 1,544 2,491,622 19,332 34,853,019 CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 119 Articlrs. Cuvital. .,^^'"t-"' )>'",'' 'f ' Knrn.; — Brush a. 1 broom worVi, ti.. 3,085,130 1,364 3,325,159 Matt rs, vpertfaMa — 15r,.:es, c.^ Ji)(i,;rci, &c.. log pr •(■.11 t-i, &• 84,492,298 66,650 72,203,699 Mathemaiicui •.;:-'lruments 115,700 140 199,750 Musical instruments 4,290,847 2,669 3,380,727 Ships and boats 3,297,914 2,587 2.043,668 Stone, clay and glass 7,117,245 9,370 5,820,544 Textile fabrics and dress 55,743,839 62,588 61,822,170 Miscellaneous 10,945,213 4,351 9,993.261 The above enumeration is not taken in on the same l)asis as is the census of the United States. It is limited to industrial establishments having five hands or more. The factory life of the Dominion includes over ii,ooo establishments, employing 306,900 wage earners. The average annual wage paid in 1900 was $287 per wage earner. In the main the development of our manufacturing and mechanical industries has followed the lines suggested hv our development of the extractive industries and by the growing wealth of the country. XI. TRANSPORT SERVICE. From the development of our industries of the field, the forest, the mine, the waters and the workshop, necessarily has sprung the development of our means of transport, for the purposes of distribution. In the early stages of Canadian life the St. Lawrence River, from Montreal to its mouth, supplied the facilities for transport. When, however, the early policy of con- centration gave way to the policy of expansion, the obstacles 120 CANADIAN HANDBOOK. m- if! Ht- |k V ml ni !' I^B to rapid transportation began to be wearisome. The port- ages were improved, the rapids reduced, where practicable, and the class of boats changed for the better. As settlement increased the high roads of the country were opened and improved. A regular system vk ;is adopted for the purpose, and for years the river pnd the roads were the only means of communication. S. jti the idea of im- proving the river by means of canals took root. Nature had rendered the St. Lawrence navigable to Quebec for ships of the largest size. Vessels of 500 or 600 tons bur- den could go as far as Montreal, but beyond that were the St. Louis Rapids, which put an end to further progress. Beyond the St. Louis Rapids large vessels could sail up for some distance — to encounter, however, forty miles of rapids before Kingston, at the foot of Lake Ontario, could be reached. It was plain sailing over the great lake, but between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie there was a distance of 2J miles, in the course of which the ascent was 300 feet, and the frowning front of Xiagara Falls intervened. After entering Lake Erie the Durham boat had free course through Lakes Erie, Huron and Michigan, but the way to Lake Super: )r was barred by the Sault Ste. Marie. These several obstacles the Canadian people determined to overcome, so that from the western feeders of Lake Superior freighting of supplies could be carried on without interruption. The first efforts resulted in artificial water ways to over- come the ra])ids iniinediately above tjie Lachine Rapids— the Cedar, Cascades and Coteau. These, begun in 1779 and finished in 1781, suflSced for a time. But these were merely efforts of the 'prentice hand of Canada. Within a few years an elaborate canal system was evolved. It included within its comprehensive grasp (a) the improvement of the St. Lawrence River, (b) of the Ottawa River, (c) of the Rideau River, (d) of the Richelieu River and Lake Champlain, and (e) later on, the completion of a canal in the Island of Cape Breton. CANADIAN HANDBOOK. m Connected with the St. Lawrence River there are 73 miles of canal — supplied with 40 locks of various dimen- sions, those in the line of direct navigation being from 270 X 45 feet to 900 X 60 feet in length and breadth, with a d'^pth on the sills from 14 to 20 feet, the greater number of the locks being of the standard size, 270 x 45 feet, and 14 feet deep. The work of completing this system of canals has been going on for many years, the caoal to overcome the T.achinc Rapids, near Montreal, having been berun in i82r, and the Wclland Canal, to overcome Niagara Falls, in 1834- In connection with this canal developmei.t it was re- solved to provide a submerged canal between Quebec and Montreal, in order to overcome the shoals, of-which there were in the aggregate ncarlv 50 miles, divided among 30 different places, the widest being in T.ake St. Peter C17.47 milesV These shoals were composed of gravel, sand. clay, boulders and shale rock. This work was begfun in T844. Bv 1S60 the increase of depth effected was 9 feet, giving a • feet channel to Mont- treal. Bv 187S the depth was 22 feet ; by TR82 i. was 2c; feet : bv the end of 1888 it was 27 1-2 feet. It is now prac- ticallv 30 feet deep and 500 feet wide. The total cost, including the expenditure on the abandoned straight channel to 31st December, 1903, amounts to $5,620,000, and the total quantity of dredged matter to 36.700.000 cubic yards. This work has made Montreal remarkable, from the fact that it is a fresh water seaport, frequented by the largest craft. 086 miles inland from the Atlantic. 2;o miles above salt water, and nearly 100 miles above tidal influences. In the bottom of a lake, whose water was from 11 to 18 feet deep upon the flats, a submerged canal has been ex- cavated entirely by steam, 17 miles long, and with sides in the worst places over 18 feet high. Tlie growth of the shipping of Montreal has kept pace with the development of the channel. In 1850 the num- ber of vessels arrived from sea was 210, of an average ton- m CANADIAN HANDBOOK. nage of 220. In 1880 the number increasec' to 710 vessels and the average tonnage to 900 tons. In 1890 the vessels entered and left in one year numbered 776. and the average tonnage was 1,630 tons. In 1900 the vessels at the port entered and left were 850, with a total tonnage of 2,068 7 n an average of 2,550 tons. In 1903 the vessels entered and cleared numbered 862, with a total tonnage of 2,312970 tons, an average of 2,690 tons per vessel; the largest vessel entered having a tonnage of 6,802 tons. Montreal thus leads the Atlantic ports of this continent in average size, the Port of New York coming next, with an average sized ocean-going vessel in 1903 of 2,360 tons and Philadelphia with an 1,800 ton vessel for its average' size. . In actual sea-going tonnage entered, Montreal rivals Baltimore, and is only exceeded by New York, Boston Philadelphia, and New Orleans. J be most recent expansions of the St. Lawrence River cana! system are the Sault Ste. Marie and Soulanges Canal. The first named connects Lakes Superior and Huron and ,s necessary because of the diflference of 18 feet between' the levels of the lakes. At this place the first canal built was m the year 1797 by the Northwest Fur Company, to enable them to carry their furs and supplies to and from tl.o India,, country of the Xortluvest. The first canal was 40 feet long and 9 feet wide, and had a total lift of 9 feet and the boats were towed from the end of the lock up a sluice-way by oxen the remainder of the distance to Lake Superior. This canal had the first lock ever built on the ^orth American Continent. The site upon which this pnmtive lock was built is preserved and used as a fish pond and the oaken floor is as good apparently as it was when aid over a hundred years ago. Locks of various sizes have been built from time to time, and now there are three locks in operation, two on the United States side and one on the Canadian. The larger one on the United Spates CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 123 side is 800 feet long and 100 feet wide. The Canadian lock is 900 feet long and 60 wide, and is said to be the longest lock in the world. Both the Canadian and the United States locks can pass vessels drawing 20 feet of water. 'llu' business accoinino('ated by these canr-'s is very considerable. Indeed, few persons have any ide^ of the fxtent of llic business served l)y the canals al the Sault Sii-. Mane. The Suez Canal is the highway for Europe and Asia. Through it pass shi])s Hying the I'.ritish, the Ciennau, tiie Dutch, the l-'rencli, the Austro-Hungarian, the Russian, the It:.!ian, the Xufwcgian, the Spanish, tht: United States, the Portuguese, the Japanese and other flags. In 1902 the Suez Canal was used by 3,708 vessels, having a tonnage of 11,248,413 tons net. Through the canals of the Sault Ste. Marie in the same year (1902) there passed 22,659 vessels, having a regis- tered tonnage of 31,955,580 registered tons. The Canadian Sault Canal is operated by electricity, and, in consequence, the average time of making a lockage, including all delays to vessels in this lock, is fourteen minutes and fourteen seconds. The Iv.ial cost of building the Canadian canal at Sault Ste. Marie is $4,216,529. Since it was opened the Canadian "Soo" has carried of wheat, grain and flour, during the first seven years an aver- a.ne of i().i40.o(K) bushels a year. During the two years i<,oj and H)03 it carried an average yearly of 42,217,500 l)ushels of Hour, grain and wheat. The Socdanges Canal, opened in the autumn of 1899, is i.| miles long. The rise of 82;.. feet between Lake St. Louis and Lake St. Francis is overcome by four locks. Three of these, each of 23 1-3 feet lift, occur in the first mile from the Ottawa River. Then there is a reach of s .me two and a half miles to the fourth lock, which has a lift of 12 or 13 feet to low water level of Lake St. Francis. The canal is, for purposes of navigation, a straight line throughout. Electricity is used as the motive power. X24 CANADIAN HANDBOOK. The amount of earth and rock removed to make this canal was about ei},'ht million cubic yards. The other canals of this system have been brought int.. unison with the general schenie. The Welland Canal lifts vessels of 2^5 to 260 feet in length from I.ake Ontario to Lake Erie, a lift of 327 feet Begun m 1824. opened partially in 1829, and wholly in i8v Its enlargement was begun in 1841 owing to the fact that the' size of vessels ha.l so increased that more than one-half the vessels navigating the lakes were unable to pass through the canal. The f^rst enlargement was no sooner completed than It was found necessary to increase the depth of water a. the vessels continued to increase in size. In 1859 the St Lavvrence route not maintaining its .share of the Westen, trade, and of the grain trade in particular, inquiries were mst.tuted into the causes of diversion to rival routes. The result was a second enlargement. The canal has now wenty-s.x locks of the standard size-270 by 45 feet, with 14 feet of water on the sills. theT!;' ^''r"" '-'";• Rirfeau Canal system has for its object the connecting of Montreal by the way of the Ottawa and ttio t/ ^'7?7'''^ ^'^''■"^^t"" ^^ the foot of Lake On- tJ^no. The total distance from Kingston to Montreal bv this route IS 245 miles. The larger Joel . are 200 bv 45 feet and the .mailer 134 by 32 feet. These canals wer^ origin mcation. The highest point is the Rideau Lake, which is 292 jeet above the level of the Ottawa at the outlet of the The Richelieu and Lake Champlain system commences at Sorel at the confluence of the Rivers St. Lawrence an.l R.cheheu. 46 miles below Montreal, and extends along t C nYl Zll T ''If "' '''""''>' = *''^"" ^>' '^^ Chambh ern end o " " 1 "^ ""' ^" '"^'^ Champlain. at the south- C-LT -itl Tt ^°""«^ction is made by the Champlain Canal with the Hudson River, by which the city of New York o„ the Atlantic seaboard is reached. The Chamblv I anal is 12 miles long. TANADIAN llANHIHMiK. 12S It will thus be seen that by the canal system of Canada, as oriRinally sketched, it was |ir<>|)..se|irK>K. uatcrs of the St. Lawrence. „„ar Montreal, with those of -■ ke ( hanM.Ia.n. by takin^^ the base hnc of an isosceles na„P c. ,nstca.I of the two water si.Ies np to fnat tin, nl .nd'V'^'v'l'r"''" ^'^•""'""'■-■'tio" between Mont- real and New York by a ,nixed water and rail route It iivis in the tollowmc ve-ir Ti,.^ ^„-i rorite.l in .«,. • TT ^^ radways were ino.r- Forated in 1834 m Upi)er Canada. I e coal fie .Is of P.ctou with the loa.Iinjj .^mnnds on the '■lilt of St. Lawrence. It was. however, in the year ,851 that the country besan .. fee! the need for a comprehensive system of railwavs I„ that year an Act was passed by the Legislature of the Pro- v.nec of Cana.la making provision for the construction of a »ia,n trunk hne through the two Canadas. In the same iZA T'7 ^r' ''"' ^"'''^ ^'^"-^'^ ^^■"^•^'^'«" P>-'>vinces uent to England to arrange for the construction of a rail- vay from Quebec to St. John and Halifax, aiul in that vear he construction of a railway through British territory to the Pacific Ocean was brought before the Legislature " in 1855 there were 563 miles of railvvav in what is now he nonunion of Canada. The Grand Tru-nk C mpanv "l also constructed 292 miles in the United States to conn m Montreal and Portland. It was therefore with prom^c fo tl>c future rather than actual fulfilment that CaZ n e -sentcd herself at the Paris Exhibition of 18,5. V k w n^^ miles, and in 1867 there were about 2,000 miles of raihvav i. 1K> country. The union of „.. fo„r provinces c"f L Wr " nd in '.r^T'r; "^"^^ ^r'' ^"'' ^'-^ ^--""-vick o'k plaC Since 1867 the 2,000 miles with which Canada beir-in Imr existence as a Dominion have increased over nte times Down to the consummation of the union the several nro vmces had expended $,50,000,000 for railways; of whi"; CANAKrAN IIANPCffOK. i;: Govcrnincnt liad coiitrilmtiil $3i.4cx),orx) ; i.tluT syiiriis, $118,600,000. Since that time tlio I'VdiTal or Kcnoral Gov- trmncnt lias nnitril)iitontario (jueljec New Brunswick Nova Scotia I'rince I-'dwaril Island. . . . Manitoba Northwest Territories (4) British Columbia Total Sr |u:ire Mil ti l,4L'l I'O.O 1<>,07() Taking population and railway mileage, the western portions of the Dominion have a larger railway mileage in proportion to population than the older provinces. Thus, British Columbia, the four Territories and Mani- toba have 12 per cent, of the popidation and 30 per cent, of the whole railway mileage, while Ontario, Quebec and the Maritime Provinces, with 88 per cent, of the population, liave a little under 70 per cent, of the railway mileage. The reason for this difference is that the railways in the newer portions of the Dominion have been built as a means 128 CANADIAN HANDBOOK. of transporting settlers and opening up the country, while in the older and better settled provinces railways have fol- lowed settlement instead of preceding population. This accounts in a measure for the large amount of assistance in money and lands the Government has given to the railways, in addition to the cost of construction of rail- ways owned and operated by the Government. From the square miles of area to each mile of railway in existence, it will be seen that Canada has by no means com- pleted her railway development, but as population increases will find herself constantly forced to provide more mileage. It is difficult even now for the existing railways to carry to the seaboard the surplus grain crop of Manitoba within the season, and so keenly is this seen by our public men that one of the important measures before the Federal Parliament during this (1904) session is a Grand Trunk Pacific Railway from the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic, with a more northerly route than that taken by the Canadian Pacific Railway. Within a short time Canada will have three transcontinental lines. In 1855 there was no connected system of railways in actual use. It was in the brains of our public men, ready to be turned into iron and steel as soon as the men and money could be found. In 1867 things were not much better. Still, the work done began to show. Four hundred and ninety-one loco- motives were needed for the 2,089 miles of railway then in running order. There was an equipment of nearly 8,000 cars of all kinds. The passengers carried numbered 2,784,600, and the freight carried amounted to 2,272,000 tons. The revenue had reached the respectable sum of $12,000,000, and the expenditure was about $8,000,000. The average charge per passenger was $1.63, and per ton of freight $3.19. For this charge of $1.63 the passenger was somewhat roughly transported from one chief town to the other, without any conveniences of any kind. Iron rails were used. There was but a single track on the road-beds, and the cars bumped from one rail to the next as if each rail V i CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 129 was protesting apainst receiving the burden from its pre- decessor. The train started with a jerk that nearly separ- ated the head from the body, and stopped with a jolt that threatened a frequent and sudden farewell of the upper half of the spinal column from the lower, to the destruction of the vital forces necessary for animal existence. In 1903 the passengers carried numbered 22,150,000, and the freifjht carried amounted to 47,400,000 tons. The reve- nue of the railways was $q6,ioo,ooo, and th. «n(t,«S2,ti6«i|141,(K)2,.T73 WJ;!.80«,3L'0;f472,OI9,(i«9 S,:!;(}5:?,6W 70,8oC,-J0:i| i:;6,i:5(i,4T3 :'3ti.l«l,0.iL> 424,lti7,US In additi(m to their paid uj) capital, the banks have developed a rest, being amounts earned but not paid out in dividends. The amendment to the Bank Act requiring the statements of the amounts at rest was passed in 1883, and in 1887 the amount was $17,883,000, increased in 1898 to $30,000,000, and attaining the figure of $47,762,000 in 1903. The banking capital employed in Canada is therefore really over $118,000,000. The business of the banks as represented by the trans- actions of the clearing houses is shown to be large. Mont- real was the ninth city on this continent in respect to the extent of the bank cheques. TJic Canadian system works well, providing an elastic currency, which responds to the calls of the community in harvest time and retreats within the banks as soon as there is a redundancy. 'ANALllA.S HANDBOOK. '" f^'"';°" to supplying the loans needed by the bi.si- . .. men of Canada, the Canadian banks loan to the busi- t- >s :, en of the United States, C nba and other countries from :>J5,ooo,Qoo to $30,000,000. .i« 1 lition to banking facilities, the country has felt the need U- .,rther .acihtios in the transference of money. The *■'•'. '-"''■' : " •" '^ P^cd its duty, and has provided the i''''"i<- *\ 'i I ystcm of money orders and of registering c aT> / greatly facilitates the operations of business. The I r of registered letters sent by the post office a '.horitv. u. .,03 was 5.470,600, against 704,700 in 1868. In 1868 th. business transacted by the 515 money order .^rfices m Cann.la amounted to $3,443461, of which J«^,95o.763 was payable in Canada, $303,118 in other coun- tries, and $90,580 received from other countries. In 1903 there were 2,125 money order offices, and the total volunie of transactions was $31,472.7^. of which jio,76i,078 represented business done within Canada. ;^<., 140.000 business initiated in Canada and paid in other countries, and $4,604,000 business initiated in other coun- tries and paid in Canada. By countries, the United States and other foreign countries m 1903 received and sent $8,331,077, the transac- tions between C anada and tl.e United States representing $, ,466,2,7 of that amount. The Mother Country and other parts of the British Empire received and sent $2,412,850 The business done with the United States by this medium IS divided into : Canada receiving from the United States $3,783,900 and sending $3,682,300. A Postal Note system was inaugurated in 1808. These rfcenr "^'t," ^"'" r'" ^r ^ "P '° ^5.00, beginning with 2c cents. They offer a cheap and convenient means of nsin.lting small amounts through the mails. The total 25 Twin 1'ai.i.!*, nkar I-iki.I), B.C. CANADIAN HANDBOOK. m number of these notes sent in 1903 was 1,196,563, and the value was $2,046,100. Odd cents are made up by affixing postage stamps. These notes can be obtained at 6,200 of the 10,150 post offices in the Dominion. Banks and express companies also issue notes payable in Canada and outside countries, the rates of the express companies being from 3 cents for $3.00 to 30 cents for $75.00 to $100.00. The facilities for the transmission of money are there- fore ample, and equal to the smaller operations of trade as well as to the largest financial movements. Telegraphs and Telephones. Further to assist the business and add to the convenience of the people, the country is well supplied with the tele- graph and the telephone systems. The telegraph system is in the hands of companies, the Government unly owning and operating those lines which have been built in furtherance of the public service between places where the traffic could not be expected to be suffi- cient to compensate private outlay, but where public in- terests require that there shall be communication, especially in connection with the signal and other stations established by the Marine Department along the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Maritime Provinces and British Columbia and the more distant portions of the Northwest Terri- tories. The total number of land lines and of cables owned by the Government in 1903 was 6,293 miles, 397 miles being cables. In British Columbia and the Yukon Territory the Government has 3,000 miles in operation. The remaining mileage is divided among the Great Lakes, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Bay of Fundy and the north shore of the Lower St. Lawrence River. Its (.•ANADIAN HANDBOOK. The Government lines are used by the Government for purposes connected with quarantine, the fisheries and the fisheries protection service. Daily reports are sent from the stations in connection with the fisheries of the several Eastern Provinces to one central station, where the move- ments of the fish are charted, and ther telegraphed to the principal fishing localities of the provinces. The companies between them own over 30,000 miles of telegraph line and 90,000 miles of wire ; have 2,700 offices and send and receive five and a half million messages. The accommodation thus afl^orded is equal to any country Canada having a telegraph office for each group of 2,026 persons, wkile the United States has one for each group of 3.349. Great Britain one to every 3,834, France one to every 3.273. and Germany one to every 2,842. 62 o?whfch^^T """"'"""J' ""^" '^'' ^°"*^°' °f companies. from CO o .. ''.'"°"f ~^'' '''' ^'•°""^- The return from so of these show that in 1902 there were 1.800 offices mlS' ? f '"struments. 135,861 miles of wire on le.ooc^ miles of poles, and that the number of messages sent was utn h';.' "'^"^- '^'^^ *^'^P"°- ^y^tem is largely ?ame'rsi "^"S"^'"^'^ '"^''^ '•-^' districts, ^the maTts to T"" '' ^''"^ P"' '■" '^'"^^ *°"^h with the markets, to their very great benefit. Insurance. When men have ships at sea or valuable buildings on .^ flJ ' '^'y '"'"'^ '"^ P^^^'^^^ ^°'-' ^"^1 ^^e able to afford the expenditure, they effect insurance, fire, marine lite, accident, etc. "«».iin,. In many respecis, therefore, insurance is a test of ad- vancement. The companies doing business in insurance in Canada are obliged to procure a license from the Dominion authori- ties authorizing them to transact business. Before the license can be issued, securities to the amount of $50000 if CANADIAN HANDBOOK. IJ'.i a Canadian company, and $100,000 if incorporated outside of Canada, must be deposited with the Government to ensure the performance of their ohUgations by the com- panies. The amounts so deposited form a total of nearly $50,000,000, four-fifths of which is for the security of persons holding life insurance. The Superintendent of Insurance had (1902) 104 com- panies* under his supervision. 50 of these do Life insurance business. " Life insurance Cassessment plan). " Fire insurance business. " Inland marine " Ocean marine Accident insurance " Guarantee " Steam boiler " Plate glass " " Burglary guarantee insurance busi- ness. "■ Registered mail insurance business. " Sickness insurance business. 5 38 4 2 9 5 I 4 I 3 10 It was not till 1804 that Canadians deemed themselves wealth' enough to secure insurance against fire. The first company to offer insurance against fire to the people of Canada was the Phoenix of London, which began business in Halifax in 1804. The first bill relating to fire insurance in Ontario— then Upper Canada— was passed in 1831. In the first year of Confederation, year ended June 30th, 1868, the amount at risk in the several companies reporting to the Dominion Government was equal to $56 per head of the then population. In 1871 it was $65 ; in 1881, $107 ; in 1891, $158, and in 1901, $194. The total amount at risk increased from $188,000,000 in 1869, to $1,140,813,000 on 1st January, 1904. * Some of thesf -x- 1 and 8 I'nited Stit,.>; 'n, «^anaciian, 19 Bntisli. pr™,U„„. dl'r;. .veni''(:V.-Zr;l''"' '"■'''■" '" Canadian companies United Kingdom * <0.069,814 United States 117,197.682 19,802,946 Total 1177,070,442 They have paid for lossp0 1901-l!t03 9.B10,271 In the 2nd clasi (B) the free goods avcrnned. 15 years 19.113.157 1901-1903 33.862,9!«1 In the 3rd class (C) 15 years 7,424.205 1901-1903 19,420,735 In the 4th class (D) IS years «.207,923 1901-1903 15,835,847 . In the Bth class (E) 15 years 518.04.'? 3 years, 1901-1903 770,r.93 The customs duties arc levied on tlio invoice value of tlie articles. P.v classes these ditties are : ri.TH« A— Customs duties, annual nvernRe, 15 yrs. $3,«39,fi2! 1901-1903 5,486.019 C\t\nt B — Customs duties, nnnufil nvernRC, 15 yrn. 1,089.441 1901-1903 1,771.943 f'Inss C— Customs duties, annual average. 15 yrs. 2.952.242 1901-1903 4,021.6Sr; Class D— Customs duties, annual average. 15 yrs. 9.K90.07!i " " 1901-1903 14.504.1fir. Cl.TSS K— Customs duties, annual avemge, 15 yrs. 4,792,744 1901-1903 7,463,86."? The principal articles imported in Class A arc hroad- stiiffs, fruits, provisions, sug^ars. tea. The principal articles in Class B are coal, cotton, wool. drupes and dyes, fur skins, hides, ores of metals, hemp Cun- dressed"), lopfs (round and manufactured), timher. crude ruhber, seeds, raw silk, unmanufactured tobacco and raw wool. The principal imports under Class C are brass, cement, copper, cottons, drugs and chemicals, furs, iron and steel. fA.VAIUAN HANDnK, 1<5 jtito, clotli and yarn, U-a'l Ic.iilur, liiuiluT ami t imIkt. iii.irldc, nu'tals. nils, paim » anlait>* (-traw), |>..tash, Inilia nil>l)cr (I'lastic wthliinf;). salt, stmic, wi.i.l, UfHillin j;(M)(l.s, ami zinc. The principal articKs in (las- I) an- aKricultiir.il tniplo- tiu-nts, |>rintcbinplim s and twine- inr (niannf.icturcd), lla x, hemp and jute manufactures, gloves and mitts, {gunpowder and otlur explosives, nutta pen ha manufactures, hats, caps and bonnets, iron ami steel manufactures, lead manufactures, leather manufactiue-, metal manufactures, optical instru- ments, paper maniif ntures, printim^ ji'isses, ships' boilers, soap, telephone instriinieti' -.. luines, natchcs, webbing, \v«x)d manufacture.^ a-x wi .ilen mamsfacuires. In Class !•: the prir.ci)).!. im, ^rts arc ale, beer and porter, carpets, unculoured cotton fabrics, curnins, fancy goods, gold and silver manufactuies, jewellery, musical instru- ments, paintings, drawings aud engraving-, silk manufac- tures, si)irits and wines and manufactured tobacco. Comparing the results obtained from the compil,-*;ni. < i thcHe tables with those obtained by a similar division '' ti, imports of the Cnited States, it is found as follows : Pkr cknt. ok Each Class to Tota!. Impohts. AvBHACK ot Five Ykars. A. Articles of food and animals B. " in crude state C. " wholly or partially manufactured. M\\y/////^'^'.'.'.'.[['.'.'.'/.'.'.'.'.'.'.' '''..'''''' ' T'niled States 25.31 .36.20 9.40 l(i.4(i 1.3.6:! Canada i«.2:i 2((.06 It). 49 36.84 7.38 T"! 1« CANADIAN HANDBOOK. This analysis sliows that Canada is less dependent than tile United States uii outside countries for articles of food and animals, that she buys from outside countries more articles in a wholly or partially manufactured state for use as materials for manufacturing, and less of articles in a crude state for manufacturing purposes. This fact, com- bined with the fact that Canada imports of Class D a much larger proportion than the United States indicates that the Dominion has not reached the high state of de- velopment as a manufacturing country attained by the United States. Tiie gradual increase in the proportion of crude and partially manufactured articles shows that the country is following the same lines as the United States, and is slowly but surely becoming a self-supporting country! The countries from which Canada chiefly imports what she wants are : Great Britain and other parts of the British Empire and the United States. I'rom these two countries Canada obtained in 1903 for home consumption $202,615,195, leaving $3i,i7';,05o for all other countries to supply, Ger- many supplied $12,282,637; France, $6,580,029, and all other countries, $12,312,384, of which amount China, Japan, Bel- gmm, Spain, Italy and Argentina sent $6,996,957. In the ten year period. 1893 to 1903, the countries from which Canada imported stood relatively as follows : 1893 Imported from British Empire 87.73 per cent "^"•'3 ■' " J'oreij;n Countries (i'2.27 " l^'-* " " Uritish Empire 27.00 " ^^^ " " t'oreign Countries 73.00 " In 1897 the Dominion of Canada provided a preferential tarifj, under which goods coming from Great Britain and some other Treaty Powers should be admitted at a lower rate than those of other countries. The Parliament of Canada in 1898 made a change in the preferential tariff clause, by which imports from Great Britain, the British West Indies and other portions of the Empire, come into Canada on payment of a duty of customs 25 per cent, less than that levied on foreign countries. This came into CANADIAN l.ANDBOOK. 14? operation on ist August, 1898. Subsequently the prefer- ence was enlarged to 33 1-3 per cent. The results have been highly satisfactory. The purchases of Canada from the Mother Country, which had fallen in 1897 to under 30 million dollars, from 6Ry2 millions in 1873, rapidly increased. In lyoi they were 43 million dollars ; in 1902, $49,200,000, and in 1903 nearly 59 million, a rate of increase which leads to the belief tliat in the near future the palmiest period of the past will be surpassed. The total export trade of the Dominion during the period 1868-1903 (inclusive) amounts to $3,895,626,927, including domestic and foreign produce and coin and bullion. Of this amount $355,736,926 represents foreign exports and $191,447,418 coin and bullion and short returns, leaving $3,348,442,583 as the domestic export of Canada to be analyzed. This export trade is divided as under : Export of the Mine f 287,17s,413 " " Fisheries 282,781,455 " Forest 880,284,770 " Animals.. 958,707,222 " Agriculture 702,228, 1 iW " Manufactures 22">,129441 " Miscellaneous 12,i;5.S,119 Total $3,348,442,58.3 Taking them in their several branches, mines contributed 8.6 per cent. ; fisheries, 8.4 per cent. ; forest, 26.3 per cent. ; animals and their products, 28.6 per cent. ; agriculture, 20.9 per cent. ; manufactures, 6.7 per cent. The exports of the products of the mine show a large increase during recent years. The Dominion began its life with an export of a million and a quarter dollars of mineral products. It did not get above 6 millions till 1895. In the last three years the annual average export has been over 35 million dollars. 148 <^A.VADIAN HANDBOOK. The exports of the tisluTies havt- increased, the yearly average of the past 36 years beinp 8 niillkins of .lollars, ami the average for the last two years of the series $12,970,000. The exportable surplus of the forest assets of the Domi- nion averages for 36 years $24,430,000 a year. The largest year in the record is KJ03, when the exports attained the value of $36,400,000. Manufactures indicate first that the exportable surplus in 36 years was $225,130,000, and, second, that this export- able surplus has increased rapidly during recent years. The exports of the workshops of Canada formed 6.7 per cent, of the total of the exports in that period. They formed 11.3 per cent, of the exports of the last three years, showing a considerable gain in volume. The largest exportable surplus Canada has is that drawn from the operations of the farmers in the two branches of live stock and produce of the fTelds, orchards and gardens. These two branches supply $i,f)6o,935,4i5 of the t.,tal exports of Canada during 36 years. Thus during this period within a fraction of one half of the surplus available for export has come from the labours of the farmers o{ the Dominion, numbering (by last census) 487,133. During the last three years of the 36 year period the exports of the farm have somewhat receded from their earlier jiosition, and form under 40 per cent, of the whole exjwrts, the exports ot the mine, the fisheries, the forest and the workshop f,,rm- ing a larger proportion than in the earlier years. 'ihe si)ecific articles connected with the farm wliich show great increa.se in exi)orts are (1) provisions, which increased as under: — Export of ProviMons. '^^ $ s.m2.r»2 '^"^ «.i/4.-'3() '**^ i-'.««)5..W '*^^ -'•'.7■-^<»73 "^^ 50,463.. 23 CANADIAN HANDBOOK. M» Tlif st'iotnl !ist f>f si)ccific articles which show great in- crease art' fjraiiis and proihicts of grains, as follows: — Export of Canadian Grains and Grain Products. 1H68 $12,131,705 1878 16,471,657 is«« 11,919.379 i8f)8 2»),440,5r)<) if^3 34491.7^^-' Anntlier class (»f exports of the farm which has developed rapidly is fruits. Export of Canadian Fruits. r«68 $ 87.333 1878 I49.'^^3 1888 857,995 1808 1,709.360 1903 3.691.214 I'his biisiiuss is as yet in its infancy. There were, acc(»rdin>f to tlie census of irjoi, of fruit trees of various kinds 21,278.465. of which 15 millions were apple trees. Of the total. f).304.402, or a1>out 30 per cent., were not of bear- in.e: ajjc. In the X ports of i>r.>visions that of cheese stands high. (i>^< :it I'.ritain imports over 300 million pounds weight, and (. im^H siif>fdios over 77 per cent, of the whole. Ih a general way it may be stated that about half of ( ai.ada's exports are from the farm, over one quarter from tlie forest, and tlio remainder from the mines, the fisheries and the wi >rl5 103.45 CapeCoiony.-: ^Sf^'f" ^'"" United States (aV;;8;^:o,i 7^"^ l^'^l Germanv' ■.::■.■. Z'^''^ ^^^ Belguim. 683.1u.578 38.59 ArgLina :.■:.•:: '^sr^'^ 34.84 Switzerland ... ^'^^f^ 3i.3i United Kingdom :::::::•• sJ/J.ltt T" France ... ^^^ASSJOZ 26.29 300,875,900 21.98 . . . />u/,uf.s Mai nnports, not nn,.orUM home consun,p,ion only. Note.-Tmports for home consumption and exports of clomest,c merchandise in all cases unless otherwise stated The exports of Canada were equal to $17.72 per head o the populafon in :869: to $19.44 per head in ',878 S3'...7 per hea.I ,n 189S. and to 3^0.85 per head in IQ03 CANADIAN HANDBOOK. XIV. 151 THE CITIES OF CANADA. Tie following are the cities and towns of the Dominion of Canada having, according to the census of looi, a popu- lation of 5,000 and upwards. For purjioscs of comparison the populations by the previous census-takings are given. Wherever necessary the annexations of territory have been taken into account, so as to give for each census-taking as exact a comparison as is possible : — Barrie . , Belleville Berlin Brandon Brantford Brockville , Chatham Charlottetown .... CoUingwood Cornwall Dawson City , Fredericton Gait Glace Bav Guelph..' Halifax Hamilton Hull Kingston Lachine Levis Lindsay London Mile End Moncton Montreal Nanaimo Nelson New Westminster . Ottawa Owen Sound Pembroke Peterborough 1871 3,398 7,;«).i L'74:l 8,107 5,101' 8,807 2,S-i9 L',0;« «,0OC. ;{ 827 6.878 29,58-' 26,880 3,800 12,407 1,696 6,(i91 4,041) 18,000 800 600 II.'i.(Xl0 •-•4,141 .•5,.'«H^ 1..WK 4,tin 1881 4.S.->4 !>,.il6 4,ft54 9,8«10 36,100 6,890 14,0«tl 2,4(MJ 7..-.H7 .^,0S0 '.'li,2tWJ 1 .."..",7 1.M.238 1891 5..V>0 9,916 7,42.5 .S,778 12.75:! 8,791 9,0.->2 11. .373 4,9:59 6,80.". 6,.W2 7. •'»:(."> 2,4.V.t 10,.537 :!8.4:t7 48,9.->9 11.264 19,263 3,761 7,301 6,0M :!l,'t77 :?,.".37 8.7112 219,616 l,.">0t) 31,;M)7 4,4-.'i; 2,820 ii.S12 6.678 44.1.'>4 7,497 4.401 ■.',717 1901 .5,949 9,117 9,747 5.;!80 16,619 8.940 9,068 12,080 .5,7.5.") 6.704 9,142 7,117 7866 6'945 ir49<5 40'832 .52'6.34 l:!'99:! 17*961 6'r>61 7,783 7.003 :!7,9S1 10.933 9.026 215 1.3.709 16,841 3,076 10,.'{22 25,6:50 8,012 8,080 1001 08,840 6,202 0,150 10,012 9,IM0 21,102 0,210 40,711 11,485 8,176 7,160 11,766 6,1.55 7,a57 5,178 0,0.')9 O.IHW 208,040 0,!)«1 6,001 5,003 11,055 20,133 20,816 8,856 12,163 42,340 8,83:1 6,4:10 MONTREAL is the chief city of Canada. It is huiit i,|,„r .-, series „f terraces, marking the former levels „f the river, and is nearly four miles lonjj hy two broad. ^^olmt Roval, which nses 700 feet al.ove the river level, forms a magnificent baekjfround to the busy city. Its hotels and public buil.l- ms:s are fine, and Dr. W. M. Russell years uf;o pronounced Its quays '• nnperial in their proiK)rfion „" Fourteen lines ni steamships trade ref,ndarly t,. the port. m i'ANAUIAN HANUIMIOK. 1J3 The .statistics of tlu- business of the jiort arc as fulluw : — YciirH IH.M) I ?ll I "ISO I 710 I ^m5 B2» l.>90 74« I81».'> (MO l!»00 :•.»« IIKKI HO*.' Sea- (ioitiK Vcsselg Arrived ToUl TonnaKC Merchanilitte l-:x|)ortetl 4».IM 628,271 (>KI,K54 :i,NM6 i.mto.txM 9 1,744,772 30,3:H,9IM 25,274,«>N 32,027,176 ■tO,;!4K,l97 tift,3 14,197 1 05, 84 1,1 04 MrrchamliM? Iniporteii 9 7,174,7S0 :i7,ia;.B9 37,4(«,t„0 45. 15)1, r4 4l,Wm,6K6 «M,:.60.. W), 1 83,449 Muiitrial is the centre of the >;re;it railway systems of C"anar<)vince of the Federation, it has ad- \anced with great rapidity. Its pojjulation in igoj was 208,040. Its growth is manifest by the returns. The value of as.sessed pro|)erty in 187S was $4<;.<)5.V765 ; for 1886 it was $72,721,559, and for i(>oi, $130,400,000. MKROCOPV RKOWTION TEST CHART (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) 1.0 1.1 1*5 ISO US ■it 1 4.0 |Z5 12.2 1.8 J /APPLIED INA^GE Inc 5; 1653 Eost Main Strejl r.S Rochester. Ne» York 14609 USA S (7 . 6) 482 - 0300 - Phone S (716) 288-5989 -Fox 154 CANADIAN HANDBOOK. QUEBEC. The city of Quebec is passing through a period in its history, such as all the old garrison towns of Canada have passed through since the withdrawal of British troops In addition, It has had to experience the sharp rivalry of Mont- real made the keener in consequence of the improvement of the channel between the two cities. The effects wc-c seen in the small increase in the population in 1891, com- pared with the pr. vious census taking. The construction of raihyays, and the development of manufactures and in- terprovincial trade during the last twelve or fifteen years have given the Ancient Capital a fresh start. The extent to which it I'as suffered through the successful absorption of is trade by Montreal may be judged by the fact that, while in 1876 the tonnage entered outwards for sea was 711.386 tons, in 1903 it was but 546,173 tons; Montreal in the same years increasing from 368,925 tons in 1876 to 1,891,000 tons in 1903. The Canadian Pacific Railway has extended its facilities to Quebec, thus (K^nnecting it directlv with tJie great Northwest by rail. OTHER CITIES. andl" fit "t'.i" '•'^.^^^'■'■^""^ rVovinces are Halifax and St. John. Both are fine ocean ports. The harbour of ot the Empire. It ,s easy of access for ships of every class all Europe. It runs inland over fifteen miles, and afte- pn.sing the city, suddenlv expands into Bedfo d Basii 1. beautiful sheet of water, coverine an arr^ J I ."iles. c.^l.tely land-lcked. 'SJIIk^ ^^Zi'lZ:, station of British North America, and the only ea ern c tv now occupied by Imperial troops. The citv arcni-irhnr ^ protected by eleven difrerent%ortificatioi s Vi e^U^^^^ powerful battcnes. Large stores of munitions of la" oJ CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 155 all kinds, includinfj torpedoes, are kept there by the Imperial Gcvcrnment. It has of late years made rapid strides in manu- facturing. St. John, the commercial capital of the Province of New Brunswick, is admirably situated at the mouth of the River St. John, has a harbour open nil the year round, regular steam communication with all parts, and railways running east, west and north. It has extensive maritime and manufacturing interests, and is the centre of the lumber trade of the country watered by the St. John River. It suffered severely in 1877 from a fire which reduced the busi- ■ess portion to ashes, but with characteristic energy the people set to work to rebuild their city, and it now forms an active, progressive conrnunity. The population of Halifax and of St. John is about the same — each 42,000. According to the census of 1901 Hamilton was the fifth most populous city of Canada. It is one of the most rapidly growing and enterprising cities in the Dominion, beautifully situated on the south-western curve of Burling- ton Bay, at the western extremity of Lake Ontario, and has superior facilities for becoming a large manufacturing city, being accessible from all points by railway and lake navi- gation, and being situated in the centre of the finest grain- producing region of Ontario. In 1901 it had an assessed value of $27,100,000. London, the westernmost city in Ontario, is splendidly situated on the River Thames, in the County of Middlesex. Sixty years ago its present site was a wilderness ; now it is a fine city, regularly laid out, having wide streets well built upon with handsome buildings, with an assessed value of $17,300,000. It has good railway communication with all parts of Canada. The aim of its founders was to reproduce in Canada the names associated with the London. Accord- ingly, it has its Pall Mall, Oxford, vVaterloo, and Clarence Streets; Westminster and Blackfriars Bridges. London (Canada) is surround-d by a rich agricultural country, fur- nishing it with a large trade in wheat and other produce. 1S< CANADIAN HANDBOOK. Within its borders arc miiiuTmis manufactories, mills, machine shops, fomulries, breweries, banks, asyhims| colleges, etc. Ottart-a, the seat of the I'e.Ieral Covernment. is the entrepot of the great lumber trade of the Ottawa River and Its tributaries, and on the piling grounds around the Lhaudiere Talis there is always a st.jck of lumber estimated at 125,000,000 feet. Tc, keep these filled to their fullest capacity a number of mills cluster around the falls, empl.iy- ing, some of them, over a thousand men ; supplied with the finest machinery: lighted with powerful electric lights by the aid of which work during the season is maintained with- out ceasing both day and night. The extent of the lumber trade of this region, of which Ottawa is the centre may be estimated by the fact that, during the past sixteen yeans an annual average of 3,785,000 pine .ogs has passed down from the Upper Ottawa and its tributaries. The city itself is also lighted by electricity. Its population is over 60,000, and the assessed value in 1901 was $25,100,000. The buildings' belonging to the Federal Government are the chief attraction of Ottawa ; the main one. situated on a high bhiflf which juts out into the Ottawa river is the Parliamentary. It contains the Senate Chamber and House of Commons. The dimensions of these halls are the same as those of the House of Lords, viz., 80 bv 45 feet ; hey are lighted by the electric light. The whoie building, wirch is 500 feet in length, is constructed of a light-colored sand- stone, the walls and arches being relieved with cut stone dressings of sandstone, and with red sandstone. The library, a circular building, constructed after the plan of the library of the P.ritish M: :,eum, has a dome 90 feet high and is in the rear of the central tower, which is 2^0 feet high. Separated from the main building, an.l dist;.,, from cither end about a hundred yards, are two departmental buildings, each with a front of 3-5 feet in length. The growth of departmental business, occasioned by the develop- ment of the Northwest, has rendered necessary the con- • ANAPtAN IIANDIIDOK. l&T structidii of a tliinl (lopartiiuiital Imildinu. which has a front of 287 fict in length. 'riio I)uii(linj,'s toRether cover aboiit four acres and cost over $5.()(xi,oco. Ottawa is well connecteil with the rest of the Dominion by railways, which run in every directi<»n. north, south, cast and west. As illustrative of the extent of country {governed fron. ( )ttawa, the distance of some of the cities and towns of Canada from the capital m.iy be given: — I'.attleford ( Xorthwest Territories), 2.3-'S miles; Calgary (Xorthwest Territories), 2,141; Winnipeg (Manitoba), 1,302; Victoria (British Columbia), 2,871; Toronto, 261; London, yj-j. Tiiese are western cities. Turning cast- ward, Halifax is (^78 miles od banking facilities, hotel accommodation, street cars, and complete water and drainage systems. The main street, 100 feet wide, is paved with cedar blacks, over two miles in length, and is one of the handsomest streets in Canada. The city, like nearly all Canadian cities, is provided with the electric fire alarm system, and the equipment of the fire brigade is complete. XV. NEWSPAPERS. There may have been a printing press in Canada before the country was ceded to Great Britain in 1763. If tb re was, it was here only temporarily, and was taken b- ! France before the English took possession. There was a printing press in Halifax, Nova Scot .•• from it a newspaper was issued early in 1752. In Qutu^t the first published newspaper was issued in mid-summer, 1764. New Brunswick followed in 1785; Prince Edward Island in 1791. Upper Canada (now Ontario) did not rejoice in a newspaper till [793. British Columbia sought enlightenment from newspapers first in 1858; the North- west Territories in 1850, and Manitoba in 1872. The Yukon Territory had papers for the first time in 1898— the " Klondike Nugget " and the " Midnight Sun." anaimav iiani>h<»ok. IW In iS^S '''^■'■^^ ^^'^'"'^ about loo publications in tbe shape of peril. (lilals ;ii\our had 4 journals to look after its interests. Law h 4—2 in Eng- lish and 2 in French ; insurance, 7. XVL ANIMAL LIFE AND HUNTING GROUNDS. Canada has lon^ been looked upon as the sportsman's paradise, possessing as it does so ■ rge a share of indigenous animals. The stringe- .'ame laws of the Old World are modified here, such lav of the kind as do exist having reference to the " dme, or breeding season. Game here is common prop' i ty ; it affords food for the settler, sport for the ('"t.-'ple of S. Hubert, and the hunter and trapper each find f. rniary proiit in its pursuit. Wild beasts, or beasts of prey, such as panthers, wolves and bears, although formerly abundant, are now rarely to be found, except in the depths of the great northern forests, or in the fastnesses of the mountain ranges. In the almost untrodden depths of the Rocky Mountains and in the Sel- kirk range in the Far West abundant trophies of the chase can yet be obtained by the adventurous sportsman who may turn his steps in that direction. 162 CANADIAN HANDBOOK. L,Mi Hi n % The waters of Canada teem with wild fowl in the spring and autumn, especially during the latter season, when migrating to winter quarters in the South ; and, as to the finny tribe, nowhere else on the American side of the Atlantic can such fishing be had as the various provinces of the Dominion afford. To present to view as concisely as possible the advant- ages Canada offers to the sportsman, it will be well to give a description of the various kinds of animals and of the chief hunting grounds. Of wild animals, then, there are the panther, wild cat, lynx, fox, wolf, bear, moose, cariboo, elk, deer, antelope, mountain goat, mountain sheep, musk ox, buffalo, squirrel, marmot, hare, rabbit, porcupine, raccoon and badger. Of fur-bearing animals there are the fisher, sable, weasel, ermine, mink, wolverine, otter, shunk, beaver, and, on the sea coast, the seal. t)f feathered game, there are grouse (known here as partridge), prairie fowl, quail, geese, ducks, swans, brant, curlew, snipe, woodcock, plover, pigeon, cranes; whilst of hawks, eagles, owls, crows, and other carrion birds there are many varieties. Of smaller birds, beautiful either in plumage or for song, there is a vast abundance during the summer, and the ornithologist may revel to his heart's con- tent in collecting specimens of great beauty. Of fish there are, in the bays and harbours of the coast, mackerel, herring, cod, haddock, halibut (a species of enormous turbot), hake, pollock, shad, smelt, and eels, whilst of shellfish and lobsters there is an aljundant supply. The rivers connecting with the sea on both the Atlantic and Pacific coast contain splendid salmon trout, whitefisli, niaskinonge, pike, pike-perch or dore, perch, bass, sturgeon, and a variety of smaller fish, and all the mountain streams are alive with brook trout. Reptile life is not largely developed in Canada, a fact due, probably, to the long period of cold weather prevalent, and, apart from rattler -akes, which are now comparatively rare, there arc no poisonous snakes of any consequence. CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 16$ Lizards are not numerous, and attain no great size, but frogs and toads are abundant. The Menobranchus of the great lakes, a peculiar water lizard with external gills, and a similar reptile, the Siredon, in the lakes of the Northwest, are remarkable species of this class of animal life. Leeches infest the streams, especially in the Northwest, where they cause much inconvenience to explorers, surveyors, and others who have to travel over swampy ground and through shallow pools. Insect life is very abundant during the warm season, the butterflies being beautiful in colour, and the beetles remark- able for their marking and brilliant hues. Years ago the locust and grasshopper of the Far West, at certain recur- ring periods, swarmed in such myriads as to be a terror to the district they invaded. Bred for the most part in the arid central desert, as soon as they obtain their wings they tcok the course of the wind in their flight, and carried de- vastation wherever they settled. During recent years there has not been a recurrence of this plague of the past. Mosquitoes are the chief insect tormentors, but theit attacks end with the dry heat of summer, although they are always present in damp places. A large fly, known as " the bull- dog," is troublesome, but not abundant, and flying ants are apt to prove very annoying to the traveller over the W est- ern plains. Space is too limited to give more than a passing notice to the larger animals respectively, and the description is not written for scientific instruction, but simply for general information. The American panther, cougar, or catamount, corre- sponds very nearly to the puma of South America. Tt was known to the early discoverers of the New \\'orld as the American lion, and was formerly abundant, hut is fast dis- appearing before civilization. It is now heard of only occasionally, an.- The same remarks apply to the fish of the Dommion. their name being legion, and every river, lake and poo teems with some kind or another wh.ch will ord sport either to the troller, fly-fisher or angler. The hunting grounds of the various provinces may now be shortly treated of respectively. Nova Scotia is more celebrated for moose and salmon than the other kinds of gam*- that are found in the sister provinces. Moose are plentiful although constantly hunted, and afford rare sport for British officers quartered at Hali- fax The neighbourhood of the chain of lakes between Annapolis and Liverpool, and the Petite and the Garden ^vers is claimed as one of the best hunting grounds whilst tl,e Indian guides, necessary for the full enjoyment of sport know all other likely grounds. Cariboo are found m the Cobequid Mountain district. Grouse are plentiful all through the province, but the finest shooting is woodcock, which are found in great numbers. Snipe are tolerably abundant, and salmon abound in all the rivers, whilst the number of trout will surprise the fisherman unaccustomed to Canadian streams. The principal attractions of New Brunswick for the sportsman are moose, cariboo, salmon and the St. Croix trout or land-locked salmon. Moose are not nearly as abundant as in former years, and can onlv be found by parties visiting the province enlisting an old hunter in their IT* i'ANAlJlAX HAXimnoK. cnnstc. Tlif >;'"i''''t Tantamar marsh in tlio soiith-oastcm part of the province has the repntatiwn »»f being a sjdendid snipe KroiuKi, while the KestiKouche is v<|k..illy celebrated for the (|nantity of wilil fowl, especially geese, that visit it. The fishing in the \ew lirtntswick rivers is especially gooil. The Xipisignit, Miraniichi, Restigonche, St. John, ami others afford the salmon tisher glorions sport. .\ pil- grimage to the RestigoHche would afford sufficient material to keep his memory busy for years to come. A well-known American sportsman writes that "the northern countries oi the province that border on the I!ay of Chaleur, aff'ord un(|uestionably the best field for sportsmen to be found in .\merica east of the Rocky .Mountains." In the .St. Croix and its splendid chain of lakes trout alxmnd, and are uf a kind i)eculiar to it, known as "land-locked salmon." \\ hetlier in reality a different species or a degenerated salmon is an open (piestion, but tln-y are very gamey, afford first rate sport, and are excellent cal.ng. Kasy cf access, an^ unsettled country in the province tends to keep up the abundance of game, in which the more settled portions of Canada are deficient. .ANAUIAN HAMUIooK I7t The Province ..( ( )ntan.. i* so variiil in its ilitrirent dis- tricts tha. what applies to one |M.rtion is perliaps the op- posite of another. W here settlement has a.lvance.l. wame has wl are plentiful in the valleys of the east Cascade region, and occasionally the rare game bird, the large sage hen or " cock of the plains." may be found above ( )si>y«"«<. Ducks, geese, snipe and pigeon are everywhere, the mo. c Fraser River especially being a great resort for wild-l< .1. The vallevs of the Thompson. Okonagon. and Cache Creek afford good sport for the rifle and the gun. and. in the mountain districts, bears may be had with the aid of a guide and experienced hunter. The grizzly and cinnamon bear, with wolves and lynx, can be hunted. l)Ut the sport is by no means free from danger, and considerable roughing must be encountered by the hunter. Salmon in P.ritish Columbia are far more numerous than in the Atlantic Provinces of the Dominion, coming up from the sea in millions: Miis is no exaggeration. .^ix species are said to exist in the waters of the Pacific Coast, four of which are excellent and of great commercial importance. On the Fraser. the Skecna. and the P.ass rivers large can- neries are located. Trout abounds in all the lakes and streams, and whitefish are common in the lakes in the middle and northern interior of the provinces. Smelts of 176 CANADIAN HANDBOOK. It °i|i :| two kinds are abundant on the coast, and a delicate fish known as the " Candle fish," or Oolachan, is very abundant along the coast in spring. In some portions of the province the country is open and dotted with trees, much like an old world park, and a horseman can canter along at will without underbrush to impede his progress. Snow seldom falls to any depth, ex- cept in the mountains, and, as a consequence, the game is not driven from its regular grounds, as in many of the other older provinces. In conclusion, this remark applies universally ; that with the advance of settlement animal life retreats. The western plains, so lately thronged with bands of elk and antelopes and roamed over by countless herds of bison, are yearly required more and more for human pastures, instead of nature's feeding ground. Hill, valley, forest and meadow everywhere are alike coming under man's control, thereby rapidly pushing to the verge of extinction many species of animals which were formerly abundant. But for the true sportsman there is yet abundance oi game, and the migra- tions of the wild fowl save them from the universal de- struction which threatens quadrupedal life. Canada is easy of access, its hunting grounds are equal to any of those in Europe, and free to all, and for scenery and beauty of landscape, for the grandeur of its forests, the wild solitude of its mountains, and the placid waters of its inland lakes, it stands unrivalled. 1^^ I t i I 'n^^^^TSST'^'^^^^ i ij»tM;.irj»f' i r'TT i ft-'™"*"*™*™'*'*'^ **'*******" ^^--i^ W^^^ ^C>vk , MANITOBA NORTH-WEST TERRITORY (DOMINION OR CANADA) ^•»i _ PrtMrM .M.r dinctl.. ,r BOR. STDRET A riSHM. Mt.M« .f A,rt«Il.r., Otto... ert0 120 lie IIS