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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. errata to > pelure, on d D 32X 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 i> Si • V • • V • • , • • V • • V • • V • gteam OF THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE/ BY ihomais ^Uxandier pr^ean, WRITTEN FOR THE CALGARY TRIBUNE, April 3fd, J889. i:Hjr' oyyaxthwest CoUectio/v / C 7^ '; ». / J ^A,^^^ ^..^a^ jU^ y?'^^ / ^■IiT:^ 4 *' v i /* '*•♦ .** V A DREAM As I do/cJ in my e^isy chair last ni^lit, it hapi- pens sino-ularly cnouirfi, Mr. I^ditor, thai as I ^row older 'i take io easy chairs, cushioned seats and comforts i^encrallx', which in mv voun<4-er davs I condemned as womanly weaknesses; hut as I dozed I dreamed of the olden time when 1 used to sit in my uncle's chair and listen to his tales of the journeys and voyac^es of himself and his friends in the days of the old Northwest Companv — when the departure from Lachine was a <^»-reat dav for the Company and its officers, and the return oi' the voyai^^eurs was celehrated in most luxuriant fashion in Montreal. I saw in my dream the hrio-ade of canoes set- tini^out, but tirst I saw the partners of the Com- pany duly carried out by sturdy fellows ihrouoh the shallow w-ater and placed with i^reat ceremonv in luxurious fur-lined canoes, in which thev made their trips from St. Anne's to the extreme of the posts of the Company, and I heard manv a cheer and the sweet chants of the voya^r-eur. Hven now the words of A la Ciaire Fontaine seem to rini;- in my ears, and as I dreamed I heard the old man tell of Xipissin^-, Huron, and Superior, with their storms and sunshine; and then 1 ran the rapids of many a wild stream; then the scene chan,i,^ed and I saw him travellinix across the prairies, the travelers keeping careful watch for fear of Crees, Sioux, and vSalteaux, and as they i^ot further into the prairies taking special precautions against the Blackfeet and Sarcees, then the most hostile of the Indian tribes. Again I saw him and his partv amongst 182216 i the mountains at the head waters o( the Cohiiiil^ia, taking'" canoes to ^o down to the nioiith of the ri\er to Astoria, f^uardin^ well ai^ainst the Ciros Ventres, Piutes, Mat Heads, and Dij^^ers. A^ain I saw him and his part\' lahorioiisl\- makinLr their way hack throu^^h the N'ellowhead Pass, throui^h the Usta^a country to Athahasca, Cireat Slave Lake, and tile Mackenzie ri\er, and 1 heard the old man as though I saw his eves brighten and iiis breath come quicker, as he told of the manv dan*;ers and xaried incidents o\' his lonj^ route; while ai^ain I saw him on the far Sis vSis Katcliewan on his wa\' to stormy Lake Winnipeg with its rocky and in- hospitable shores, until at last, after two years, he was carried on shore at Lachine after his lon^' jour- ney. vSuch was the scene as presented to me in m\' dream of the old-time tale of the Xor-wester, and as the scenes chani^ed the old man described the countries he had visited where not often a white man had set his foot. A^ain my dream chang'ed and I stood in the gallery of the House of Commons at Ottawa, and tlie rulers of our people considered the question of <^etting possession of the ^reat Hudson's Bay ter- ritory, and as I listened I heard again of the coun- try the old Xor-wester had so loved to tell about, and some were for and some were against old Can- ada taking so great a responsibility, and a young man got up to speak and the whole house listened, for he was looked to, so 1 was told as I dreamed, as the future leader of his party, and with an elo- quent tongue he declared that for Canada to at- i i t W.l' at- i the ■I md -J I of .; ter- -( Lin- i )llt, :* Icinpt lo lake possession of ihe Xorthuest uoiikl be utter ruin, that tlie\' would iie\er l)e able to pay the interest on the ilebt it uc>uld in\ol\e them in, and all his parts' eheered his speech and proiu>uneed it the wisest e\er niaile in the Canadian I arlianient. And as I listened in \uv dream the face o\' the old Nor'-wester came up before me, and I heard him sa\: "I le does not know of what he talks." And another member^^ addressed the House, a spare looking' man with almost a Jewish face, with curly hair and \er\' brii^ht e\es, and a ner\ous action of his head, and he, as 1 heard in my dream, spoke loiii^' in faxor ot acquirin*^ the territc^rs , and pic- lured the future oi the countr\'. Then in mv dream 1 was out on the plains in the Blackfoot country, and I thou^^ht 1 recollected all I had been told about them and their hostilit\' and their countrv. Hut I saw also what I had not been told oi\ ior there was a j^reat railwax' and settle- ments, and as for the Hlackfeet thev were ver\' friend Iv, and all the\' seemed to do was to polish tlie horns of lon^" dead buffaloes, wiiicb thev lar^re- ly sold to the white people. And a^ain I dreamed and thought I was in a l^reat city, wliich must have been named by a vScotchman, for it was called Cali^arrv — but they have corrupted the jLjood old Ilii^hland name, and now thev call it Calparv — and in this town there were many people and many railways met in it, for in a hui;"e station house I vead manv time tables o( roads I had never heard of before. I'he first read "Ho for San Francisco and Mexico, the Great Cal- ^arv, Macleod and Boundarv Line R.R., connects T8?216 ' w illi all i1k' IcaJiiiiJ ri>ail.s to the siMilli, Tl ICIl a^aiii, "CP. K. io \'ancoii\ cr aiul ihc Pacilic coast" TIrmi ill llaniinj^ ci^lors "Cali;ar\ , I'AJnioiitoii, atul I'oacc Ki\cr U.K., connect in*:- with the lulinonton, Insliaiia, and Atliahasca K. K And [iiiain, n Ihroiii^h oxcursiiin to the McKcn/ic ri\cr, con- cctini»' with steamers on Cireat Sla\e lake, and the Arctic Circle K. K «' rand excursion b\' this route to tile mouth of the McKen/ie river, then by re,i(ular nnite over the mcnnitains to the N'uki>n river, aiKJ thence bv steamer to the moutii ot the river and Sitka; from thence bv ocean steamers past the i;laciers and the i^randest mountains oi W^rth America, throuiLjIi the i^ulf oldeorinia to the citv ot* X'ancouvei." And I wondered as I dreamcLl. Suddenlv I felt somelhini^ ijfive me a shake aiid heard a voice saving" rather sharplv, "vv liat are you snoritii; there (or?'' — and so it was all a dream, — and I wrt>ie it down al once as I recollected it, arid have been ever since wondering;" whether it — my last dream — will all come true. l\M'haps not in mv lime. I am older than when the old \or'-\vesler lold me his stories, but in the not verv far oH future this will all be realized, at least so I believe, and this little town of Calvary will be the ^i^reat city and railway centre I dreamed of; and it mav be that some o( those who read this dream in the little prairie town t^f Cali^arv (Scotland for ever) will see its fulfilment in the city of the future; and perhaps someone seeintr it wil sav When 1 was a child a cranky old fellow wrote of these things as in a dream, and thev said he called himself SAXGL I\ES. « S 11 'S A' 1. d II ly in er re ul id at le ee ps lid a