. Across Canada : annotated guide via Canadian Pacific, the world's greatest transportation system : Western lines east bound . grain and relieves the pressureduring the grain shipping season. There are large parks anda fine baseball ground. Saskatoon is a city destined to build tolarge dimensions. Its territory is fruitful and well settled andits products mixed and numerous. Sutherland Leaving Saskatoon by a very fine steel bridge overEl stow the North Saskatchewan river, we pass the Uni- Colonsay versity of Saskatoon, the home of higher edu- Plunkett cation in the province for both Arts and
. Across Canada : annotated guide via Canadian Pacific, the world's greatest transportation system : Western lines east bound . grain and relieves the pressureduring the grain shipping season. There are large parks anda fine baseball ground. Saskatoon is a city destined to build tolarge dimensions. Its territory is fruitful and well settled andits products mixed and numerous. Sutherland Leaving Saskatoon by a very fine steel bridge overEl stow the North Saskatchewan river, we pass the Uni- Colonsay versity of Saskatoon, the home of higher edu- Plunkett cation in the province for both Arts and Agricul- Lanigan ture. Sutherland is a divisional point. Most of the territory through which we are now passinghas been settled during the past twenty years. It is a goodterritory, producing large crops and peopled with first-classfarmers. From Colonsay a branch runs south to Regina and Moose Jaw (seepage 67). At Lanigan branches run south to Brandon (see page 68) andMoose Jaw (see page 67). There is under construction in a north-easterly direction a new line to tap the more northerly parts of theprovince. Saskatchewan 79. Saskatoon University Wynyard Eastward we pass through a mixed farming Leslie territory, comparatively newly settled, with Foam Lake much bush and plenty of ponds and sloughs, Yorkton which make it the paradise both of the ducks Saltcoats and the hunter. South of Wynyard will be Bredenbury seen the Big Quill Lake, on the shores of Churchbridge which a summer resort has been Wild geese, turkey, ducks and chicken pro- vide good sport. Yorkton (population 4500) isone of the most importanttowns in this territory, sur- ,** rounded by an immense farm-ing and well set-tled area of graingrowing and .... L« dairy country. Ithas a largewholesale busi-ness. Saltcoatsderived itsname from alarge lake, and isa well developedtown. We passalong through a thriving country until Bredenbury, the begin-ning of the Manitoba District of the railway, is reache
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