Chapter I: Front Matter

NOTE TO PAGE 56.

Sir Charles Tupper tells me that I was totally misinformed. I am sorry to have been led astray, and have pleasure in making the correction, which was received, unfortunately, after the chapter had been worked off.

[Picture: Dr. Barnardo’s Distributing Home for Children, Peterborough,
Ontario]

PICTURES
OF
CANADIAN LIFE

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A Record of Actual Experiences

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BY
J. EWING RITCHIE

AUTHOR OF ‘EAST ANGLIA,’ ‘BRITISH SENATORS,’ ‘ON THE
TRACK OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS,’ ETC., ETC.

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_WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS_

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London
T. FISHER UNWIN
26, PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1886.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Introductory.—Canadian Territory and 1
Population
II. Off With The Emigrants—The Voyage Out—The 16
‘Sarnia’—The Cod-Fishery
III. Arrival at Quebec 33
IV. At Montreal, and on to Ottawa—Interviewing and 45
Interviewed
V. Toronto—The Town—The People—Canadian 74
Authors—The Leader of the Opposition
VI. Off to the North-West—Niagara—Lake 104
Superior—The Canadian Pacific Railway—At
Winnipeg
VII. Life on the Prairie 148
VIII. Amongst the Cow-Boys 174
IX. In the Rockies—Holt City—Life in the Camp—A 194
Rough Ride—The Kicking Horse Lake—British
Columbia
X. Dangers of the Rockies—Prairie Fires—The 225
Return—Port Arthur—Emigrants
XI. Back to England—Canadian Hospitality—The 245
‘Assyrian Monarch’—Home
XII. Colonization in Canada 255

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE Dr. Barnardo’s Distributing Home for Children, _Frontispiece_ Peterborough, Ontario Falls of Montmorenci—Quebec—Junction of the River 48 Ottawa and St. Lawrence, Montreal King Street, Toronto 78 Second Year on a Prairie Farm, Canadian North-West 134 Calico Island, Saskatchewan River, Canadian 135 North-West Hunting Scene on the Souris River 145 Souris Valley, Manitoba 147 Pioneer Store at Brandon in 1882 162 Harvesting on the Bell Farm—Indian Head, N.W.T. 172 Mount Stephen in the Rocky Mountains, On the Line 197 of the Canadian Pacific Railway Thunder Bay, Lake Superior 242