Chapter I: Front Matter

CANADA
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

BY
ARTHUR E. COPPING

WITH SIX FULL-PAGE COLOUR PLATES BY
HAROLD COPPING
AND THIRTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS IN
BLACK-AND-WHITE

CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD.
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
1911

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

TO THE
HON. FRANK OLIVER
Minister of the Interior, Canada

CONTENTS

1. The Dominion’s Destiny
2. Retrospect
3. Quebec Province
4. Niagara and White Coal
5. The Lumber King
6. Toronto and its Exhibition
7. Manitoba: Clues to Prairie Farming
8. Among the Dukhobors
9. The History of the C.P.R.
10. The New Hudson Bay Route
11. Experiences of Immigrants
12. Winnipeg and the Centenary
13. Key to Canada’s Mineral Wealth: A Warning to British
Capitalists
14. New Saskatchewan
15. Indians and the Missionary
16. Northern Alberta
17. New Trans-Continental Lines
18. The Story of the Salmon Fisheries
19. British Columbia—and Some Reflections
Index

COLOUR PLATES

Parliament Buildings, Ottawa
Quebec from the St. Lawrence: Winter Time
The Permanent Exhibition at Toronto: One of the Buildings
Sunflowers Growing on the Prairie at Verigin: Food for the Dukhobors
A Corner of Montreal Harbour
Big Trees in Vancouver, B.C.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Dufferin Terrace and Lower Town, Quebec The only Slum in Canada: Little Champlain Street, Quebec Old Fort Garry, Winnipeg New Union Station, Winnipeg Asbestos Quarry at Thetford, Quebec Province Farmland Scenery, Ascot, Quebec Province Gathering Maple Syrup in Eastern Canada Tobacco Growing, Quebec Province Typical French-Canadian Family Niagara: Above the Canadian Falls Niagara: The Canadian Falls Pumpkins Grown in Quebec Province Market Day in Montreal: Scene in the Jacques Cartier Square The First Step in Farming: “Breaking the Prairie” The Oat Harvest: 80 Bushels to the Acre Wheat Growing in the Eastern Townships: Lending a Hand at Stooking Typical New Town in Saskatchewan, Viewed from the Prairie Street Scene in a New Town Encampment of Chief Moskowekum of the Cree Tribe Threshing by Machinery in the Prairie Provinces Winnipeg of To-day Zones of Mineral Wealth Sun Dance of Blackfeet Indians Edmonton: Distant View from Strathcona Edmonton: East End of Jasper Avenue Bow River, Alberta Province Building the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway: The Track-Laying Machine at Work Shawatlans Lake and Falls, Prince Rupert Water Front, Prince Rupert Terminus, G. T. P. Railway Government Buildings, Victoria, B.C. Tourists in Vancouver City, B.C. A Salmon Cannery on Fraser River Chinese Quarter, Vancouver, B.C. Fruit-Picking in British Columbia Scale Map of Canada

CANADA
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW