Front matter
Reading edition
PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, OTTAWA
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