. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. The BUSY MANSMAGAZINE Vol XIV SEPTEMBER 90 7 No 5 My Canadian Conversion By Sara H. Birchall in Gunters Magazine. T was Robert LouisStevenson who firstdemonstrated to methe fascination of amap, and ever sinceI sat in the high seatof the old apple treeand followed breath-lessly the fortunes of Long John Sil-ver, I have found no more charmingplaything, whether it be the huge rail-road map that beguiles an hours waitin a metropolitan station, or the littletwo-by-twice road map in the pocketof my bicycle skirt. Not long ago I picked up a Can-adian railroad
. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. The BUSY MANSMAGAZINE Vol XIV SEPTEMBER 90 7 No 5 My Canadian Conversion By Sara H. Birchall in Gunters Magazine. T was Robert LouisStevenson who firstdemonstrated to methe fascination of amap, and ever sinceI sat in the high seatof the old apple treeand followed breath-lessly the fortunes of Long John Sil-ver, I have found no more charmingplaything, whether it be the huge rail-road map that beguiles an hours waitin a metropolitan station, or the littletwo-by-twice road map in the pocketof my bicycle skirt. Not long ago I picked up a Can-adian railroad folder with the generalidea that Western Canada was com-posed of pine forests and wildcats inabout equal proportions, and with asensation of surprise that it possesseda railroad at all. I studied that map for half an I put it down on the desk witha long breath. Two weeks later I was in Winnipeg,at the beginning of a six-thousand-mile journey through a type of coun-try which I had fancied as extinctas the dodo or the dinosaur. Briefly, here is a land containing one-third of the area of the BritishEmpire, thirty times as large as theUnited
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