. The advantages of Canada for emigrants. e indeed embrace a very wide range, and on the Fairgrounds, to the question put to the guards, AY here are the Canadianexhibits ? one received the reply: The Canadian exhibits! Theyare everywhere. Every building has them. Just look for the Britishflag, and there you will find them.* But in all the results of farmingindustry Canada was pre-eminent. It was amusing to watch the peopleclimb up the stairs to get a look at the top of the 11-ton Canadiancheese. The immensity of it staggered them. But 1hat cheese, bothby its size and its quality—for Canada too
. The advantages of Canada for emigrants. e indeed embrace a very wide range, and on the Fairgrounds, to the question put to the guards, AY here are the Canadianexhibits ? one received the reply: The Canadian exhibits! Theyare everywhere. Every building has them. Just look for the Britishflag, and there you will find them.* But in all the results of farmingindustry Canada was pre-eminent. It was amusing to watch the peopleclimb up the stairs to get a look at the top of the 11-ton Canadiancheese. The immensity of it staggered them. But 1hat cheese, bothby its size and its quality—for Canada took the highest awards ofthe Exhibition for Ibis product of the dairy—only symbolised the vastnatural resources of the country. The live stock of the Dominion was,1 believe, equally successful with cheese in the results of the competi-tion. And by her magnificent display of minerals, many became awarefor the lirst time that Canada has a wealth in all the products ofthe mine which perhaps surpasses that of any other country in CROITERS THRESHING Comparing Canada with the other colonies of the Empire as afield for the emigrant, it has one obvious advantage—it is so verv much 26 The Advantages of Canada for Emigrants. nearer than any of these. But it is evident, also, that the climatic con-ditions of the Dominion are much more favourable to the English typeof character. In Australia and New Zealand, in India and Africa, theBriton, it would seem, tends to lose characteristics which have alwaysbeen regarded as distinctive of him, and gradually to assimilate to theSouthern type. It is a question whether, in those climates, he doesnot lose something of that depth and seriousness of character, alongwith part of the heroic energy and endurance which have made himthe leader in the enterprise of the world. Certainly a climate whichis intensely hot in summer, and is unbalanced by a strenuous winter,cannot be expected to nourish as vigorous a type as that of the BritishIsles.
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