. The Grain, grass and gold fields of south-western Canada [microform] : Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, described as a mixed farming and mining country, with a brief notice of Kootenay and Cariboo mining districts of British Columbia as the near and natural markets for Edmonton produce : also a description of the all Canadian routes from Edmonton to the Yukon gold fields : a handbook for agriculturists and gold miners, with information for railway and other capitalists, tourists, sportmen, big game hunters, scientific explorers and others seeking fresh fields for their energies under the flag. Agr
. The Grain, grass and gold fields of south-western Canada [microform] : Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, described as a mixed farming and mining country, with a brief notice of Kootenay and Cariboo mining districts of British Columbia as the near and natural markets for Edmonton produce : also a description of the all Canadian routes from Edmonton to the Yukon gold fields : a handbook for agriculturists and gold miners, with information for railway and other capitalists, tourists, sportmen, big game hunters, scientific explorers and others seeking fresh fields for their energies under the flag. Agriculture; Agriculture. 81 :e of mate in reat lany nge na- atter eo- to rity to lay to ent, the thermometer, which frequently rcRis- tcrs a degree of cold in which human life could not erist in the damp climate of Britain. tremendous difference be- tween the iicat-conductiuK power of a damp and a dry atmosphere cannot be realized by old country people who have never left their native laud. Dry air is the most efficacious non-conductor of heat, and the Canadian,living in,and sum>un(U'(I by, such an atmosphere, is well protected against extreme cold or intense heat by this exemplification of the rule of nature, which produces side by side the poison and its antidote, the disease and its rem- edy ; and the extremes of temperature, with the shade, shelter, food and fuel, and atmospheric conditions required to pro tect her creatures against the elements. Misrepresentation by jealous rivals for immigration is another potent cause. And as strong inducements are needed to cause an intelligent free-born Briton to chango his allegiance to a country inhabited by so large a proportion of the foes of his race, and misruled by them, most un- scrupulous misrepresentations are used, tending to show Canada to be a cold, bleak region, impossible of contented life, a place associated with Siberian exile and penalties, a remote region where the graces and amenities of civilization are unkno
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