This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...as year by year fresh land is broken up by emigrants. The line from Winnipeg has gained Fort Churchill by way of the Nelson Valley. The other lines extend to the Sas Tcatchewan waterway. Both the Saskatchewan and the Churchill valleys may one day be traversed by cross-continental lines converging upon Fort Simpson on ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...as year by year fresh land is broken up by emigrants. The line from Winnipeg has gained Fort Churchill by way of the Nelson Valley. The other lines extend to the Sas Tcatchewan waterway. Both the Saskatchewan and the Churchill valleys may one day be traversed by cross-continental lines converging upon Fort Simpson on the Dixon outlet to the Pacific. The development waits the exploitation of goldflelds in the Rockies and the ploughing of wheat-lands in Athabasca, no longer a separate district. (See Figs. 29 and 30). At Medicine Hat, where the line forks before crossing the Rockies to Vancouver, we approach the foothills of the great range and enter the ranching country. Alberta is worldfamed for horse and cattle-rearing. As we have already noted, the province is warmer than the wheat territories. It is sheltered by the mountains, and in winter the cold is tempered by the warm south-west wind, which blows through the passes of the Bocky Mountains from the Pacific Ocean (See Fig. 13). Coming from the land of the Chinook Indians, this genial wind is called the Chinook. As a result of this wind, snow seldom stays on the ground for more than three days at a time. The country is well-watered by glacier-fed streams from the Rocky Mountains. Some of the giants of the range overlook this province (See Fig. 30). The main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway negotiates the Rockies by means of the Kicking Horse Pass. It enters at Banff, a tourist centre with a National park, and emerges at Donald, on the Columbian side and at the foot of the towering peak Sir Donald. Calgary is the ranchers' capital and the railway focus of Alberta. Fort McLeod, due south, on the minor fork of the C.P.R. and at its intersection with the South Saskatcheivan river, is another transit-cent...
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