Canada and Newfoundland

INDEX

• Abitibi, large production of news-print at, 92.
• Agriculture, in Newfoundland, 11;
• in Quebec, 47, 48;
• possibilities of Manitoba, 154.
• Air plant, a polar orchid along the Yukon Trail, 236.
• Airplanes, fail in attempt to reach Fort Norman, 205.
• Alberta, coal deposits estimated to be one seventh of the world’s total, 200;
• extent of pure bred cattle and dairy industries, 208.
• Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company, pioneer in Alberta irrigationwork, 207.
• Alfalfa, largely produced in southwestern Saskatchewan, 176.
• American “branch plants” in Canada, 104.
• American capital and investments in Canada, 105.
• American owned pulp-mills and timber tracts in Canada, 96.
• Americans, number of, in Canada, 2, 193.
• Anderson, Charlie, his lucky strike in the Klondike, 275.
• Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia’s apple-growing district, 34.
• Anyox, British Columbia, copper mines at, 223.
• Apples, largely grown in Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, 34;
• in the Okanagan Valley, 223.
• Asbestos, most of world’s supply produced in Thetford district, Quebec, 47.
• Astrophysical Observatory at Victoria, British Columbia, 225.
• “Athabaska Trail,” poem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 205.
• Automobiles, American, in Canada, 104.
• Banff, finest mountain resort of Canada, 215.
• Bank of Montreal, one of the world’s great banks, 73.
• Banks and the banking system of Canada, 69, et seq.
• Banting, Dr. F. G., discoverer of Insulin, 99.
• Barley, production in the Winnipeg district, 149;
• large crops at Edmonton, 200;
• in Peace River Valley, 202.
• Baseball, popular in Nova Scotia, 35;
• in Toronto, 101.
• Bassano, great irrigation dam at, 206.
• Battleford, Saskatchewan, noted for its fur trade and lumber mills, 179.
• Beach, Rex, in the Klondike, 278.
• Bears, abundant in the Yukon, 234.
• Beatty, E. W., first Canadian-born president of the Canadian Pacific, 165.
• Beaver, the first fur exported by the Hudson’s Bay Company, 169;
• abundant in the Yukon, 234.
• Beck, Sir Adam, at the head of Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission, 110.
• Bell Island, visit to the Wabana iron mines on, 26.
• Belle Isle, Strait of, 4.
• Big game of the Yukon region, 253.
• Black, George, demonstrates to Ottawa Parliament possibility of winter automobile travel in the Yukon, 239.
• Bonsecours Market, at Montreal, 66.
• Boyle, Joseph W., successful gold-dredging operations in the Yukon, 271;
• the story of his career, 281.
• Branch plants, American, in Canada, 104.
• Bras d’Or Lake, an inland sea, 39.
• Bright “Dickie,” a character of old-time Calgary, 211.
• British American Nickel Company, operators of mines at Sudbury, 130.
• British Columbia, timber resources of, 90;
• production of silver in, 124;
• agricultural and mineral resources, 220 et seq.
• Buffalo, last wild herd reported to be near Fort Vermilion, 202;
• largest herd in America at Wainwright Park, Alberta, 217.
• Cabbage, as raised at Dawson, Yukon, 265.
• Cabot, Sebastian, reported that fish obstructed navigation on Newfoundland coast, 13.
• Cabot Tower, commemorating discovery of Newfoundland, 6.
• Calgary, Alberta, huge irrigation works of the Canadian Pacific Railway at, 206, 207;
• the city and its industries, 209.
• Camping and hunting in Ontario province, 139.
• Canadian Bank of Commerce, established in the Klondike, 280.
• Canadian Banking Act, provisions of, 72.
• Canadian Banking Association, of semi-official status, 73.
• Canadian Klondike Mining Company, established by Joe Boyle, 284.
• Canadian National Railways, eastern terminus at Halifax, 31;
• extent of, 158;
• work abroad to induce immigration, 190;
• transcontinental route from Prince Rupert to Halifax, 229.
• Canadian Northern Railway, growth of, 162.
• Canadian Pacific Railway, eastern terminus at St. John, N. B., 41;
• extent of its railroad and steamship service, 158, 160;
• work abroad to induce immigration, 190;
• begins huge irrigation project near Calgary, 206, 207;
• leads in exploiting Canada’s scenic wonders, 218.
• Canadian relations with the United States, 85.
• Canso, Strait of, railroad trains ferried across, 39.
• Cantilever bridge, world’s longest at Quebec, 45.
• Cape Breton Island, port of province of Nova Scotia, 38.
• Cape Race, chief signal station of the North Atlantic, 3.
• Cape Spear, most easterly point of North America, 6.
• “Card money,” circulation of, 74.
• Caribou, abundant in Newfoundland, 11;
• in northern Ontario, 140;
• in the Yukon, 234, 253;
• meat sold at butcher shops in Dawson, 253.
• Carmack, George, discoverer of gold in the Klondike, 274.
• Carrots, a successful crop at Dawson, Yukon, 261.
• Cartier, Jacques, early explorations of, 45.
• Catholicism, Quebec the American capital of French, 57.
• Cattalo, cross between buffalo and cattle, raised in large numbers at Wainwright Park, 218.
• Cattle, pure bred, in Alberta, 208;
• transportation of, on the Yukon River, 242.
• Cattle ranches being supplanted by farms in Alberta, 206.
• Château Laurier, government railroad hotel at Ottawa, 81.
• Chaudière Falls, source of power for Ottawa manufactures, 80.
• Chicken Billy and his ten-thousand-dollar potato patch, 259.
• Chinese labourers, not admitted to Canada, 190.
• Chippewa, immense hydro-electric development at, 113.
• Chisana, abandoned town on the Yukon River, 244.
• “Circle tour,” the Canadian Rockies, Yellowstone Park, and Grand Canyon motor route, 215.
• Clay Belt, the Great, agricultural possibilities in, 139.
• Clergue steel plant, at Sault Ste. Marie, 135.
• Climate, at Edmonton, 200;
• at Prince Rupert, British Columbia, 228;
• at Dawson, Yukon, 256.
• Coaker, Sir William, organizer of Newfoundland Fishermen’s Protective Union, 21.
• Coal, great importance of the Sydney mines, 39;
• amount saved by development of Canada’s water-power, 108;
• Alberta’s deposits, the greatest in the Dominion, 200;
• immense deposits, near Crow’s Nest Pass, 221.
• Cobalt, Ontario, world’s richest silver deposits at, 119.
• Cobalt, immense production of the mineral at Cobalt, Ontario, 125.
• Cochrane, “Billy,” breeder of “wild” cattle at Calgary, 210.
• Cochrane, Senator, owner of large cattle ranch in Alberta, 207.
• Cod fisheries, of Newfoundland, 13;
• of Nova Scotia, 36.
• Coffee, George T., lucky miner in the Yukon, 266.
• Coke ovens, at the coal deposits near Crow’s Nest Pass, 221.
• Columbia River, source of, in the Kootenays, 220.
• Conservation of forests in Canada, 89.
• Copper, rich deposits in Newfoundland, 12;
• in the Kootenay country, 221, 222.
• Copper sulphate, by-product of Sudbury mines, 130.
• Cornwallis, Lord, city of Halifax, founded by, 32.
• “Country banks” of coal, the settler’s recourse, 201.
• Creighton Nickel Mine, largest producer in the world, 127.
• “Cremation of Sam McGee,” poem by Robert Service, 257.
• Crow’s Nest Pass, railway line through, 217, 220;
• immense coal deposits near, 221.
• Cucumbers, a hot-house crop, at Dawson, Yukon, 261.
• Curling, a popular game in Canada, 68.
• Dairy cattle and products of Alberta, 208.
• Dawson, the capital of the Yukon, 250 et seq.
• Deer, plentiful in Nova Scotia, 57.
• Divorce, no laws for, in Newfoundland, 9.
• Domestic servants, scarcity of, 192.
• Dominion Agricultural Department, originates improved wheat varieties, 183.
• Douglas fir, principal timber of British Columbia, 91.
• Doukhobors, fanatical colonists from Russia, 194.
• Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, poem, “The Athabasca Trail,” 205.
• Dredging for gold in the Yukon, 267, 269.
• Dunsmore, Lord, as a pioneer names town of Moose Jaw, 179.
• Edmonton, Alberta, the gateway to the northwest, 197 et seq.
• Electric current, low cost of in southern Ontario, 106, 108, 111.
• Electrically heated water for winter mining in the Klondike, 285.
• Elevators, how conducted in the Canadian wheat belt, 186.
• Farm labour, how obtained for the Canadian wheat fields, 184.
• Farmers, American, movement to the Canadian wheat belt, 193.
• Farmhouses, well built in Nova Scotia, 38.
• Farming, on the edge of the Arctic, Fisheries, of Newfoundland, 13;
• of Nova Scotia, 36.
• Fisheries of British Columbia, extent of, 230.
• Fishermen, Newfoundland, their hard lives and small incomes, 20.
• Fishermen’s Protective Union, activities of, 21.
• Flax seed, production in the Winnipeg district, 149.
• Fleming, Peter, plans harbour development of Montreal, 62.
• Floating dry dock, at Prince Rupert, 229.
• Flour industry, location of principal mills, 186.
• Football, popular in Toronto, 101.
• Forest fires and protective measures, 89.
• Forest reserves, set aside by government of Ontario, 139.
• Forests, denudation of Canadian, 88.
• Fort Garry, present site of Winnipeg, 151.
• Fort McMurray, on the route to the new oil fields, 203.
• Fort Norman, trading post for the new oil region, 203.
• Fort Smith, capital of the Northwest Territories, 203.
• Fort Vermillion, last herd of wild wood buffalo reported near, 202.
• Fort William, the great wheat centre, 135, 141.
• Fox, Black, price of fur declining since advent of fur farming, 173.
• Fox farms on Prince Edward Island, 40;
• near Indian Lorette, Quebec, 44.
• Fraser River, gold discoveries on, the first in British Columbia, 223.
• Freighters, Lake Superior, 146.
• French, dispute British claims to Newfoundland fisheries, 14;
• attempts to hold Nova Scotia, 15;
• driven from Cape Breton Island, 39.
• French, the language of Quebec, 49.
• French Canada—Quebec, 42.
• French Catholicism, Quebec the American capital of, 57.
• Fruit growing in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, 224.
• Fundy, Bay of, the forty-foot tides of, 38.
• Fur, and the great organizations concerned in its marketing, 166 et seq.
• Gas, natural, at Swift Current, Saskatchewan, 180;
• at Medicine Hat and near Edmonton, 201.
• Gates, Swift-Water Bill, his great strike in the Klondike, 277;
• partnership with Jack London, 278;
• partnership with Joe Boyle, 282.
• Glace Bay, first transatlantic cable landed at, 39.
• Gold, but little found in Labrador, 11;
• production of, in the Porcupine district, 125;
• in the Kootenay country, 221;
• first discovery in British Columbia, on the Fraser River, 223;
• supply being exhausted in the Klondike, 250;
• the wonders of the Yukon, 266.
• Gouin reservoir, immense water-power development in Quebec, 47.
• Government ownership of railroads, how brought about, 162.
• Governor-General, the, his position in the Canadian government, 84.
• Grain-carrying ships, of the Great Lakes, 146.
• Grain elevators, at Port Arthur and Fort William, 141 et seq.
• Grain sacks, manufacture of, a leading industry of Montreal, 63.
• Granby Company, miners and smelters of copper in British Columbia, 222.
• Grand Banks, the cod fishing grounds, 4, 19.
• Grand Forks, British Columbia, smelter closed down after a record production, 222.
• Grand Trunk railway, growth of, in Canada, 162.
• Grande Prairie, largest town in the Peace River Valley, 202.
• Great Divide, crossing the, 213.
• Great Slave Lake, on the route to the new oil fields, 204.
• Grenfell, Dr., sailors’ mission of, at St. John’s, 8.
• Gulf Stream, its influence on Newfoundland, 4, 5.
• Halibut, large production of the British Columbia fisheries, 230.
• Halifax, chief city and capital of Nova Scotia, 31.
• Halifax explosion, one of the greatest ever known, 33.
• Hamilton, Ontario, prosperity due to cheap electric power from Niagara, 117.
• Hayward, Edward, his murder near Lesser Slave Lake, and the running down of his murderer, 295.
• Hematite ore, in the Kootenay country, 221.
• Hidden Creek copper mines, largest in British Columbia, 223.
• Hill, James J., prediction of Canada’s future population, 189.
• Hockey, the great game of Canada, 68.
• Hogs, raised at Dawson, Yukon, 260, 262.
• Hollinger Mine, largest gold mine in North America, 125.
• Holt, Renfrew and Company, great furriers at Quebec, 171.
• Homesteads in the Yukon, 265.
• Horse raising, in Alberta, 209.
• Hot-houses for cucumbers and tomatoes at Dawson, Yukon, 261.
• Hudson Bay, railways projected to, 155.
• Hudson’s Bay Company, history of, 166 et seq.
• Hudson Strait, chief difficulty in navigation of Hudson Bay Route, 156.
• Hull, wet suburb of dry Ottawa, 80.
• Hunting, in Newfoundland, 11.
• Hunting and camping in Ontario province, 139.
• Hydraulic mining, in the Yukon, 267.
• Hydro-electric Commission, work of, in Ontario, 102, 103, 106, 107.
• Hydro-electric development in Quebec, 46;
• of Niagara Falls, 106;
• of Welland River at Niagara Falls, 113;
• at Sault St. Marie, 134.
• Hydro-electric development and the paper and pulp industry, 96.
• Hydro-electric plant, supplying St. John’s, 15.
• Hydro-electric project at Ogdensburg proposed for furnishing power to United States and Canada, 100.
• Ibex Range, as seen from the Yukon trail, 236.
• Ice Palace, formerly erected each winter at Montreal, 68.
• Icelanders, a colony of, near Winnipeg, 152.
• Immigration, Canada’s desire for, 188 et seq.
• Indian Head, government forestry experiments at, 178.
• Insulin, specific for treatment of diabetes, discovered at University of Toronto, 99.
• International Joint Commission, approves project for improvement of St. Lawrence waterway, 100.
• International Nickel Company of Canada, Ltd., owners of rich Sudbury mines, 127.
• Iron, one of the world’s largest deposits in Newfoundland, 12;
• the wonderful Wabana mines, 24;
• in the Kootenay country, 221.
• Irrigation in Alberta, 206;
• in the Okanagan Valley, 224.
• Japanese labourers, not admitted to Canada, 190.
• Jasper Park, greatest of Canada’s western game and forest reserve, 217.
• Keeley Mine, rich silver veins of, at Cobalt, 124.
• Keno Hill, new silver district in the Yukon, 124.
• Kicking Horse Pass, where the railway crosses the Great Divide, 216.
• King, Charles, his capture and conviction of murder by the Mounted Police, 295.
• King Solomon’s Dome, in the centre of the Klondike gold region, 274.
• Kirkland Lake gold district, production of, 125.
• Klondike, the supply of gold being exhausted, 250;
• romances of the, 274.
• Kootenay country, resources of, 220, 221.
• Kootenay Lake, steamer trip through, 221.
• Labrador, cod fisheries of, 19.
• Labour, how obtained for the Canadian wheat fields, 184.
• Lac Beauvert, a mountain resort of the Canadian National Railways, 217.
• La Chine Rapids, so-named by Cartier, 61.
• Lachine Canal, near Montreal, 64.
• Lacrosse, one of the most popular Canadian games, 67.
• Lake of the Woods, a beautiful camping and hunting district, 139.
• La Rose, discoverer of silver at Cobalt, 122.
• Land grants to the Canadian Pacific Railway, 190.
• Laurentian Mountains, oldest rock formation of the continent, 48.
• Le Roi Copper Mine at Rossland, British Columbia, 222.
• Leacock, Stephen, at McGill University, Montreal, 63.
• Lead, in the Kootenay country, 221.
• Left-hand driving, the custom in Newfoundland, 25.
• Life insurance, amount held by Canadians, 78.
• Lignite coal, in Saskatchewan, 180.
• Live stock, transportation of on the Yukon River, 242.
• Live stock production in Newfoundland, 11.
• London, Jack, in the Klondike, 278.
• London, Ontario, greatly increased consumption of electricity due to low price, 112.
• Louise, Lake, in the Canadian Rockies, 216.
• Lumber, production at Sault Ste. Marie, 135;
• production of the Saskatchewan province, 176, 179;
• immense quantities shipped from Vancouver, 225.
• Lumber industry of Canada, the, 88 et seq.
• Manitoba, extent of the province, its topography and resources, 154.
• Maritime Provinces, of Canada, the, 31.
• Marquette, Father, establishes first Jesuit mission in the new world at Sault Ste. Marie, 135.
• Marquis, valuable variety of wheat originated by Dominion Agricultural Department, 183.
• Matches, manufacture of, at Ottawa, 80, 88.
• Medicine Hat, natural gas wells at, 201.
• Mennonites, at Winnipeg, 153;
• colonies of, from Russia, 194, 195.
• McGill University, Montreal, 63.
• Miller, Joaquin, in the Klondike, 278.
• Mine props, cut in Newfoundland for use in English and Welsh mines, 11.
• Mining wonders of the far North, 266.
• Mond Nickel Company, operators of mines at Sudbury, 130.
• Monel metal, how produced, 129.
• Montreal, Canada’s largest city and financial centre, 60 et seq.
• Moose, plentiful in Nova Scotia, 37;
• in Ontario province, 140;
• in the Yukon, 234, 253;
• meat sold at butcher shops at Dawson, 253.
• Moose Jaw, an important commercial centre of Saskatchewan, 179.
• Mosses, along the Yukon trail, 236.
• Mother’s pension, in Ontario, 103.
• Motor tourists, welcomed in Quebec, 50.
• Mountain goats, abundant in the Yukon, 253.
• Mountain sheep, abundant in the Yukon, 253.
• Mount Robson, highest peak in Canada, 217.
• Mount Royal, from which Montreal is named, 61.
• Municipal ownership in Port Arthur and Fort William, 143.
• Muskrat, a valuable fur when dyed and prepared, 172.
• Names, fanciful, in Newfoundland geography, 12.
• National debt of Canada, greatly increased during the World War, 188.
• Natural gas, at Swift Current, Saskatchewan, 180;
• at Medicine Hat, and near Edmonton, 201.
• Nelson, British Columbia, in the heart of the mining country, 221.
• New Brunswick, its resources and industries, 40.
• New Caledonia, nickel production of, 127.
• Newfoundland, size and strategic importance, 4;
• population, 7;
• education and church activities, 7;
• political relation to British Empire, 8;
• system of government, 9.
• Newspapers in the early Klondike days, 280.
• News-print, production of the Sault Ste. Marie mills, 134.
• Niagara Falls, hydro-electric development of, 106, 113.
• Niagara Falls Railway Arch Bridge, cost of lighting American half more than double Canadian, 108.
• Nickel, largest production in the world at Sudbury, Ontario, 127;
• the different uses of the metal, 131.
• Nickel-steel, the many uses of, 131.
• Nipissing silver mine at Cobalt, 122.
• Northcliffe, Lord, built plant in Newfoundland for supply of pulp wood paper, 11.
• Northwest Company, opponent of the Hudson’s Bay Company, finally absorbed, 170.
• Notre Dame, Church of, at Montreal, 65.
• Nova Scotia, travels, in, 31 et seq.
• Oats, production in the Winnipeg district, 149;
• large crops at Edmonton, 200;
• in Peace River Valley, 202.
• Oats hay, a farm crop at Dawson, Yukon, 261.
• Ogdensburg, N. Y., site of proposed hydro-electric plant for supplying Canada and the United States, 100.
• Oil fields, the new operations along the MacKenzie, 203 et seq.
• Okanagan Valley, famous as fruit-growing region, 223.
• Ontario, Province of, richest in mineral and agricultural wealth and industrial development, 103;
• the frontier of the province, 137.
• Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission, work of, in Ontario, 102, 103, 106, 107.
• Ottawa, capital of the Dominion, 79 et seq.
• Paper, Quebec leading producer of, 46;
• greatly increased production of, in Canada, 92;
• process of manufacture, 93.
• Paper mills, at Ottawa, 80, 88.
• Parliament buildings, at Ottawa, 82.
• Peace River, the town of, 202.
• Peace River Valley, agricultural possibilities in, 202.
• Petroleum, in Alberta, 201;
• the new field along the Mackenzie, 203.
• Petty Harbour, typical Newfoundland “outport,” 16.
• Phoenix, British Columbia, copper mines at, 222.
• Pilgrimages to Ste. Anne de Beaupré, 52.
• Porcupine gold district, production of, 125.
• Port Arthur, the great wheat centre, 135, 141.
• Port Nelson, projected terminus of the Hudson Bay Route, and port for wheat shipment, 155.
• Portage la Prairie, a prosperous farming section, 175.
• Potatoes, success with in Dawson, Yukon, 259.
• Poultry raising in the Arctic, 260.
• Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, noted for its fur trade and lumber mills, 179.
• Prince Edward Island, smallest but richest province in the Dominion, 40.
• Prince Rupert, northern terminus of Canadian National Railways and nearest port to the Orient, 226 et seq.
• Public ownership, in Toronto, 101 et seq.;
• success of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission, 107.
• Pulp wood, chief product of forests in Newfoundland, 11;
• great production of Quebec, 46;
• Canada’s resources in, of great importance to the United States, 91, 96.
• Pulp mills, at Ottawa, 88;
• great increase in numbers of, in Canada, 92;
• at Sault Ste. Marie, 134.
• Quebec, and its history, 42;
• population, 46.
• Queenston Chippewa hydro-electric plant below Niagara Falls, 113.
• Radio, fisheries of Nova Scotia controlled by, 36.
• Rabbits, destruction of trees by, 234.
• Railways, in Newfoundland, 10;
• transcontinental, of Canada, 157;
• government-owned in Canada, 162.
• Rainfall, excessive, at Prince Rupert, British Columbia, 229.
• Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan, 177.
• Religious denominations in Newfoundland, 7.
• Remittance men, in Calgary, 210.
• Revillon Frères, chief competitor to the Hudson’s Bay Company, 170.
• Rideau Canal, at Ottawa, 80, 81.
• Rideau Hall, residence of the Governor-General, at Ottawa, 84.
• Rockies, Canadian, beauty of the, 213.
• Rocky Mountain Park, finest mountain resort of Canada, 215.
• Royal Bank of Canada, connections abroad, 77.
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police, training camp at Regina, 177;
• district headquarters at Dawson, 251;
• the story of the service, 288 et seq.
• Russian church, at Winnipeg, 153.
• Rye, production in the Winnipeg district, 149.
• St. Boniface, old French-Canadian settlement near Winnipeg, 152.
• St. Helene Island, once owned by Champlain, 64.
• St. James, Cathedral of, at Montreal, 65.
• St. John, chief city of New Brunswick, 41.
• St. John’s, capital and chief port of Newfoundland, 3, 5;
• around about the city, 8.
• St. Lawrence River, International plans for improvement of, 99.
• St. Mary’s River, hydro-electric development of, 134.
• St. Paul’s Church, Halifax, first English house of worship in Canada, 35.
• St. Pierre Island, headquarters of bootleggers, 15.
• Sainte Anne de Beaupré, the Shrine and its miraculous cures, 52.
• Salmon fishing, in Newfoundland, 11.
• Salmon fisheries of British Columbia, 231.
• Sanderson, John, first homesteader at Portage la Prairie, 175.
• Saskatchewan, greatest wheat province of the Dominion, 175 et seq., 181 et seq.
• Saskatoon, second largest city of Saskatchewan, 179.
• Sault Ste. Marie, hydro-electric development of, 134;
• one of the oldest settlements in Canada, 135.
• Sealing industry, of Newfoundland, 21.
• Selkirk, Lord, his colony in Manitoba the first wheat farmers, 182.
• Service, Robert, the poet of the Yukon, 249, 257, 279.
• Settlers, Canada’s inducements to, 191.
• Shawinigan Falls, hydro-electric development of, 46.
• Shaughnessy, Lord, an American boy who became president of the Canadian Pacific, 165.
• Sheep, in southern Alberta, 208.
• Silver in the Kootenay country, 221.
• Silver mines of northern Ontario, 119.
• Slavin, Frank, in the Klondike, 278;
• partnership with Joe Boyle, 282.
• “Soo” Canal, the waterway and its traffic, 136.
• Sports, Canadian, 67;
• outdoor games promoted by municipal athletic commission at Toronto, 101.
• Spruce, predominant standing timber of Canada, 91.
• Steam thawing of the ground in Yukon mining, 266, 271.
• Steel industries developed in Sydney district, Nova Scotia, 39.
• Stock raising in southwestern Saskatchewan, 176.
• Sudbury, rich nickel deposits at, 126, 127.
• Sunlight, hours of, at Dawson, Yukon, 264.
• Superior, Lake, the grain-carrying trade through, 141 et seq.
• Swift Current, an important commercial centre of Saskatchewan, 179.
• Sydney coal mines, of immense importance, 39.
• Tahkeena River, crossing of, on the Yukon trail, 235.
• The Pas, an undeveloped mineral region, 154.
• Thomas, C. A., demonstrates possibility of winter automobile travel in the Yukon, 239.
• Thornton, Sir Henry, in charge of the Canadian national railways, 164.
• Three Rivers, Quebec, largest production of paper in the world, at, 47, 92.
• Threshing, methods in the Canadian wheat belt, 185.
• Tides, forty feet high in Bay of Fundy, 38.
• Timber, valuable tracts in Newfoundland, 11.
• Timothy hay, large crops at Edmonton, 200.
• Tomatoes, a hot-house crop at Dawson, Yukon, 261.
• Toronto, the city of public ownership, 97 et seq.
• Toronto University, largest in the British Empire, 98.
• Transcontinental railway systems of Canada, 157.
• Trappists, at Winnipeg, 153.
• Truro, Nova Scotia, 38.
• Turnips, as a crop, at Dawson, Yukon, 264.
• University of Saskatchewan, efforts in behalf of agriculture and ceramics, 179.
• Valley of the Ten Peaks, in the Canadian Rockies, 216.
• Vancouver, chief city of British Columbia and Canada’s most important Pacific port, 224.
• Vancouver Island, copper workings on, 223.
• Van Horne, Wm., strenuous railroad builder, 165.
• Veneer, manufacture of, at Sault Ste. Marie, 135.
• Victoria, capital of British Columbia, 225.
• Wabana iron mines rich under-sea deposits, 24.
• Wainwright Park, Alberta, containing largest herd of buffalo extant, 217.
• Waterfalls that work for the people, 106 et seq.
• Water-power, great developments in Quebec, 46;
• its relation to the paper and pulp industry, 96.
• Welland Canal, building of deeper and larger locks, 99.
• Welland River, hydro-electric development of, 113.
• Wheat, the great movement through Port Arthur and Fort William, 141 et seq.;
• production of the Winnipeg district, 149;
• on the Saskatchewan prairies, 175, 181;
• methods of planting and harvesting in the Canadian wheat belt, 183;
• large crops at Edmonton, 200;
• in Peace River Valley, 202;
• importance of Vancouver as a shipping point, 225.
• Wheat belt, Canada’s, its immense extent and great production, 181.
• White Horse, beginning of the trail to Dawson, 232.
• White pine timber becoming exhausted in Canada, 91.
• Wild flowers, abundant in the Yukon, 235.
• Williams-Taylor, Sir Frederick, interview with, on Canadian banking, 73.
• Winnipeg, a fast-growing city, 148 et seq.;
• its importance in the fur trade, 166.
• Winter sports in Quebec, 50.
• Wireless telegraph, fisheries of Nova Scotia controlled by, 36.
• Wolfe, General, captures Quebec from the French, 43.
• Women, opportunities for, in Canada, 192.
• Yellowhead Pass, railway line through, 217.
• Yukon Gold Company, dividends paid by, 269.
• Yukon River, a trip on the, 241.
• Yukon Territory, by motor car through the, 232.