The Prairie Provinces of Canada : their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources . lreadytaken advantage of this offer. Moosi Jaw.—According to an Indianlegend, the unusual name of Moose Jawhas its origin in an incident that occurredmany years before the Dominion wastraversed by the railway, and when theprairies were still the hunting grounds ofthe Indians. A nomadic Englishman,reputably a nobleman, camped on thebanks of the river at the spot where thecity now stands, and for lack of bettermaterial mended the wheel of his cartwith the jaw of a moose. Thereafter theIndians described
The Prairie Provinces of Canada : their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources . lreadytaken advantage of this offer. Moosi Jaw.—According to an Indianlegend, the unusual name of Moose Jawhas its origin in an incident that occurredmany years before the Dominion wastraversed by the railway, and when theprairies were still the hunting grounds ofthe Indians. A nomadic Englishman,reputably a nobleman, camped on thebanks of the river at the spot where thecity now stands, and for lack of bettermaterial mended the wheel of his cartwith the jaw of a moose. Thereafter theIndians described the spot as the placewhere the white man mended his cart withthe mooses jaw, and when settlers com-menced to congregate in the vicinity thename of Moose Jaw was formally adopted. The city lies practicallv midway betweenWinnipeg and Calgary, in the middle of agreat wheat-growing belt, and is a divi-sional point on the main line of theCanadian Pacific Railway. Steel was firstlaid through the town in 1885, and forsome years Moose Jaw was little more thanthe home of the few railroad-men em-. 1. RIVER STREET, LOOKING WEST, MOOSE JAW. 3. HIGH STREET, LOOKING EAST, MOOSE JAW. 2. MAIN STREET, MOOSE STATION, MOOSE JAW. 225 THE PRAIRIE PROVINCES OF CANADA ployed by the Canadian Pacific. With thedevelopment of the grain-growing areasin Southern Saskatchewan the town be-came the centre from which the surround-ing agricultural communities drew theirsupplies, and there was gradually evolvedthe large wholesale business which isto-day the mainstay of the town. Partly as the effect and partly as thecause of the enhanced commercial import-ance of the town came the development intransportation facilities and the construc-tion of lines of railway radiating in alldirections. In addition to its main trans-continental line the Canadian Pacific Rail-way is operating a branch which runs south-east and joins an important American lineat Portal, on the International line
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