. The story of the Dominion : four hundred years in the annals of half a continent ; a history of Canada from its early discovery and settlement to the present time ; embracing its growth, progress and achievements in the pursuits of peace and war. figure it had stood for twenty years. In 1896 it was $2,754,774,in the next year over $6,000,000, in 1898, $13,000,000 and, in 1899,over $21,000,000. The main cause of this expansion was the discoveryand development of the great Yukon District in respect of its bound-less resources in gold-seamed ore. There was also the discovery ofgold in the Lake
. The story of the Dominion : four hundred years in the annals of half a continent ; a history of Canada from its early discovery and settlement to the present time ; embracing its growth, progress and achievements in the pursuits of peace and war. figure it had stood for twenty years. In 1896 it was $2,754,774,in the next year over $6,000,000, in 1898, $13,000,000 and, in 1899,over $21,000,000. The main cause of this expansion was the discoveryand development of the great Yukon District in respect of its bound-less resources in gold-seamed ore. There was also the discovery ofgold in the Lake of the Woods region of Ontario and the immensewealth in the same connection which was found to exist at Rosslandand throughout the Kootenay District of British Columbia. Between1896 and 1899 the gold production of the Yukon, known to Canadianauthorities, increased from $300,000 to $16,000,000, and the quantityof gold dust carried away yearly by American miners, and uncontrolledby the Government, must have made the figures of total productiondouble the latter amount. Silver has also been found to be a largeproduct of Canada, though not in later years a very profitable one, r. w 00 > H ro >> r/ w p o fO o GH a:> JO 5: o c cr S !». I THE GROWTH OF NATIONAL PROSPERITY 607 while nickel in great masses has been found along the northern shoresof Lake Superior and is being rapidly developed as a result ofinflowing British and American capital. The total figures of mineralproduction in the Dominion speak for themselves and amounted to atotal value of $10,000,000 in 1893, $22,000,000 in 1896 and $48,000,-000 in 1899. Meanwhile, the farmer and the farmers position had been chang-ing greatly. The pioneer log-houses and shanties of the older Prov-inces had given place to comfortable farm-houses and large forest and wilderness had been replaced by smiling fields, orgardens, or fruit farms. The wooden home-made furniture of earlytimes had disappeared, and even the antiq
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