Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1883 — Canada’s Magnificent Territory. [ARTICLE]

Canada’s Magnificent Territory.

“In regard to the steady and spontaneous growth of the northwest territory, not in Manitoba alone, but all along the line of the Canada Pacific railway, it can only be said to be beyond precedent in the history of the world The soil is inexaustible. Last year over 30,000 emigrants from Ontario and the States settled on the free grants of lane riven to actual settlers. These pioneers took over $10,000,000 into that section and expended this money in the devel opment of farm lands. There are, to my personal knowledge, extensive coal districts in the valley of the Saskatchewan and at Edmonton, though as yet almost entirely undeveloped. Ah, it is a magnificient country, and the coming century will.see it the home of millions of free, prosperous and enlightened people.” ■ “But is not the climate very severe in the far northwest?” “Not in comparison with the climate of the Atlantic coast. As you move westward upon the Pacific slope, warm southern winds sweep over those boundless plains from April to October, and vegitation is so rapid as to be almost tropical in its luxuriance. I have seen abundant crops of wheat, oats, and barley harvested in less that four month After seed-sowing. In the Manitoba region, as you well know, the. climate Changes very rapidly, and the short but severe winter there experienced has been the only obstacle to its settlement. Yet, for all that, the city of Winnipeg has sprung into a prosperous condition, and is now the leading city of southern, British, America.— Cor. Chicago Heraid. ■ • It is said that ex-Governor Blackburn,’of Kentucky, intends to found an institution in Louisville for the cure of inebriates and opium-eaters.