Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1913 — HOLIDAYING IN THE WINTER [ARTICLE]

HOLIDAYING IN THE WINTER

an immense amount of money SPENT BY WESTERN CANADIANS IN WINTER SEASON. v "An unusually large number of Western Canada people are leaving or preparing to leave to spend the Winter in California.” Theabove item of news was clipped from a Western Canada paper early in December, in the same paper were items of news conveying the Intelligence that hundreds of Western Canadians were also taking a trip abroad, spending the Christmas season “at home/’ as they yet term the old land. The Scandinavian element participated largely in the holiday business- 0f... the railroads and the steamships, but they all had. return tickets. Early in December the east bound trains and boats were loaded, and an estimate furnished by the railroad people gave upwards of twelve thousand as the number who would make the Christmas holiday visit abroad; This does pot mean that these people are leaving to avoid the eoldness of the winter, nor for any climatic conditions whatever. They have come out to Canada and have done so well that they can afford the hundred and fifty or two hundred dollars or more that it takes to carry them across and back. When they came to Canada they did not have that much money all told, but now they are wealthy and on their return will bring some of their friends with them. ( Then there are those, too, who on their wheat farms have made suflicient money that they can afford to take a holiday, and what better winter holidaying ground could they havq than California? How many in other farming districts of the continent could afford the money and the time that these people can? —Advertisement