. Across Canada [microform] : a report on its agricultural resources. Agriculture. ACROSS CANADA A. Ixoport ort its AgricTaltwral nosourcos IN'IKODl'C'I'ION it Cana-ia is so vast country llmt mero li>,'ur(3^ fail to convey an adofjuate uUa of enormous extent. Taken in it'' entirety it is one-tliird larger t)--" the wli.)Ie of. two millions of square miles, which represents rather more than half of the entire surface lUit from the returns of the last census, that of I'^si, it appears that the area of hnil" ficluallf^ occupied at that time only slightly exceeded seventy thousand fij
. Across Canada [microform] : a report on its agricultural resources. Agriculture. ACROSS CANADA A. Ixoport ort its AgricTaltwral nosourcos IN'IKODl'C'I'ION it Cana-ia is so vast country llmt mero li>,'ur(3^ fail to convey an adofjuate uUa of enormous extent. Taken in it'' entirety it is one-tliird larger t)--" the wli.)Ie of. two millions of square miles, which represents rather more than half of the entire surface lUit from the returns of the last census, that of I'^si, it appears that the area of hnil" ficluallf^ occupied at that time only slightly exceeded seventy thousand fijuare mile/ of which not nioic than one-half was improved, tiial U, covered by croj)?, ;, gardens ..r orchards, ifence, of the two millions ^r sfiuaro miles estimated to l)0 capaldo of vielding their produce to Uie industry of the farmer or tlie forester, it is safe to say that upwards of one million nine hundred thousand s(iuare miles still represent vir"iu soil and of this, again, no less than one million fi(|uare miles are regarded as suitable"for the' cultivation of wheat. To give some idea of what is meant by one million square miles it .uiixiuiio yjL f^wH'"* ""^-""^ -" >^«u»v.» ...«x« c«« Limu iivu miuions ; in otiier words the population of Canada is about the same as that of London (within the Metropolitan Police District). Canada, then, has room for some of the population whi^li Britain can spare ; it is in need of a frugal, industrious people who will till its vast unoccu])ied lands and gather in the fruits -which it yields, from the grain crops of Manitoba and the North West prairies, to the grapes and peaches of Ontario and ilie a])ples of Xo\a Scotia "• who will rase cattle, and elieep, aud horses among the foot hills of the Rocky Mountain^ anrl along the fertile valley tlopes of the groat Saskatchewan RiTor. The following pages contain some account of Cutjab as it apjicarc I to the
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