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Canada and Newfoundland

Chapter 43: SEEING THE WORLD WITH Frank G. Carpenter
By Frank G. Carpenter
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A travel writer's survey of Canada and Newfoundland offers on-the-spot descriptions of coastal fisheries and iceberg-strewn harbors, French-Canadian parishes and Quebec shrines, the industrial cities of Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa, and the agricultural expanses of the prairies. The narrative moves from Maritime fishing villages through lumber camps, mines (iron, silver, nickel), and hydroelectric developments to transcontinental railways, western ranches and the mountain passes of the Rockies. Northern chapters examine Yukon goldfields, Klondike dredging and Arctic-edge farming, while recurring themes include transportation, resource exploitation, settlement patterns and the interaction of human industry with dramatic landscapes.

Doubleday, Page & Company, in response to the demand from Carpenter readers, are now publishing the complete story of CARPENTER’S WORLD TRAVELS, of which this book is the tenth in the series. Those now available are:

Millions of Americans have already found Carpenter their ideal fellow traveller, and have enjoyed visiting with him all the corners of the globe. He tells his readers what they want to know, shows them what they want to see, and makes them feel that they are there.

CARPENTER’S WORLD TRAVELS are the only works of their kind. These books are familiar talks about the countries and peoples of the earth, with the author on the spot and the reader in his home. No other one man has visited so much of the globe and written on the ground, in plain and simple language, the story of what he has found. CARPENTER’S WORLD TRAVELS are not the casual record of incidents of the journey, but the painstaking study of a trained observer, devoting his life to the task of international reporting. Each book is complete in itself; together they form the most vivid, interesting, and understandable picture of our modern world ever published. They are the fruit of more than thirty years of unparalleled success in writing for the American people, and the capstone of distinguished services to the teaching of geography in our public schools, which have used some four million copies of the Carpenter Geographical Readers.