Chapter I: Front Matter

ROMANTIC CANADA

ROMANTIC CANADA

BY
VICTORIA HAYWARD

ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS
BY
EDITH S. WATSON

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
EDWARD J. O’BRIEN

TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
OF CANADA, LTD. AT ST. MARTIN’S HOUSE
1922

Copyright, Canada, 1922, by

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED

Toronto

CONTENTS

PAGE

List of Illustrations vii

Publisher’s Foreword xi

Introduction xiii

CHAPTER PAGE

I Nova Scotia 1

II Barrels 9

III ’Longshoremen 15

IV Sea-Coast Homes of the Maritime Provinces 21

V Low Tide in the Bay of Fundy 29

VI Cape Breton 35

VII Newfoundland 41

VIII Labrador 49

IX Saint Pierre et Miquelon 57

X Quebec 65

XI Les Iles De Madeleine “The Necklace” 75

XII Percé 85

XIII Wayside Crosses and Garden Shrines 93

XIV Saint Anne L’Eglise 101

XV M. Jobin 109

XVI Romance of the Two-Wheeled Cart 121

XVII Bubble, Bubble, Bubble 131

XVIII Woodcarving 137

XIX Indian Lorette 145

XX The Abenaki Basket-Makers 153

XXI “To Market, To Market” 163

XXII Ontario 169

XXIII Ontario Continued 175

XXIV The Prairie 183

XXV Romance Clings to the Skirts of Winnipeg 189

XXVI Mine Host--The Mennonite 199

XXVII The Pas: Gateway of the Great Northland 207

XXVIII British Columbia 215

XXIX The Doukhobors: a Community Race in Canada 223

XXX Doukhobors: a Community Race--Continued 231

XXXI Steveston 237

XXXII The Indians of Alert Bay 243

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Shrine _Frontispiece_

FACING
PAGE

Her Daily Portion 4

“How’s Fish?” 5

Interior of an Apple-Barrel Cooperage in the Valley of the Gaspereau 12

In the Orchard 13

Tarring the Boat 18

A Nonogenarian Grandfather Placidly Catching up the Meshes of
an Old Net 19

Within Sight of Home, Sambro, Nova Scotia 24

Door-way of the Lighthouse-keeper’s Home at Cape Sharp, Nova Scotia 25

In the Raquette, Digby, Nova Scotia 32

The Bay of Fundy is the Greatest Natural Drydock in the World 33

On the “Gallery” 38

Boyhood Dreams of the Day when “their Turn Will Come” 39

Fit Subject for a Millet 40

Dusk, South Bay, Ingonish 41

Belleoram 44

Path End 45

The Water-Carrier 48

Knitting 49

Hearty at Eighty 52

An Eskimo Grandmother 53

Nearing the End 60

An Island-woman of Saint Pierre et Miquelon 61

The Rag Mat 68

Spinning 69

Tadousac has Lost None of its Scenic Beauty 72

An Old Trading-Post at Baie St. Paul 73

The Wool for the Homemade Looms is Grown on the Sheep Grazing
on the Slopes of Les Demoiselles 76

Seumas O’Brien, Author and Sculptor 77

The Sampler 80

The Lassie with Breton Cap 81

At Percé on the Gaspé Coast 88

A Little Angler 89

La Croix, the Age-old Milestone of the Quebec Highway 96

La Calvaire 97

In a Convent Garden 104

Saint Anne de Beaupré! Saint Anne L’Eglise! The Capital of the
Faith--the Place of the Miracle 105

M. Louis Jobin in his Work Shop 112

Many of the Seats in these Tiny Carts are built up so that the Driver
Sits above his “Horse” 124

Bad Roads, or no Roads at all never Betray the Ox into the Ditch 125

A Wayside Pot 134

Call of the Sea 140

The Figure on the Bow 141

Family Graves 148

The Snowshoe 149

The Twickenham of Canada 156

“Pour Madame’s Boudoir” 157

Stepping Stones 164

The Flower of St. Roch’s 165

An Old Ontario Homestead 172

Ontario, a Land of Campers and Camp-Fires 173

View from His Britannic Majesty, George III’s Chapel to the
Mohawks, near Brantford 176

Fort Mississauga, Niagara-on-the-Lake 177

Home of Alexander Graham Bell 180

On the Canal 181

Canada, “the Bread-Mother” of the World 184

Steady, There! 185

“The Stooker,” as the Prairie Calls Him 188

At the Window 192

“... And There in the Cucumber Field is Old Kitty” 193

A “Knight of the Field” Defending the Wheat 196

Foot Bridge to Trappist Monastery, Saint Norbert 197

Curing a Pelt, which, Sooner or Later, Graces the Shoulders
of Some Lady of the Land 200

On the Girls’ Side 201

Kaslo After Rain 208

Mountain Goats, Snowflakes Against the Blue Sky 209

A Madonna of the Kootenays 216

Drawing Water from the Columbia 217

In a Community Door Yard 224

Doukhobor Women Winnowing 225

Domesticity 228

Pulling Flax 230

Washing Flax in the Columbia 231

Close of the Season 236

Chrysanthemums a-bloom by a Steveston Doorway 237

The Family Tree of the Pacific Coast Indians 248

Spirit of the Untamed 249

PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD

We are proud to announce what we think will come to be regarded as a really outstanding book of travel. We think it fitting that the first important book in this category which we have published should treat of our own country.

“Romantic Canada” aims to give, and from the hands of two women singularly fitted to give it, the story of Canada in the romance of its simple industries simply accomplished. It gives the story, in word and in picture, of all sorts and conditions of folk, as they are to be found in the faraway and little-visited territories of the Dominion. Author and artist have left the beaten track, for it is in the highways and by-ways that this particular Canada, which is passing as we grow in population, and as steel links territory to territory the more easily and the more quickly, is to be found. The photographs and discussion of this hinterland of Canada are quite unique in the history of Canadian literature and photographic art.

The author and artist have gone from Canadian coast to Canadian coast. They have thought it not unwise also to include matter descriptive of their travels in Labrador and Newfoundland.

The author and artist and ourselves desire to say “Thank you” to all those who have helped to make this book what it is. Specifically we are indebted to “Asia, the Magazine of the Asiatic Society”, for permission to reproduce the photographs bearing the captions “Domesticity” and “Pulling Flax”; to the “Century Magazine” in the same regard as to “Hearty at Eighty”, “Island Woman of St. Pierre et Miquelon”, and “The Figure on the Bow”; to “Town and Country”, as to “Fort Mississauga”, and “View from His Britannic Majesty George III’s Chapel to the Mohawks, near Brantford”; to the “Canadian Home Journal” as to “Early Home of Alexander Graham Bell”, and “Drawing Water from the Columbia”; and to the Toronto “Saturday Night” as to “An Old Ontario Homestead”.

We are also vastly indebted to the editor and proprietors of “The Canadian Magazine”.