The New York herald., 1873-08-05
CANADA'S Dream.
Entering the Family of
Nations.
TAPPING THE SOURCES OF Immigration.
Is There an International Hare and
Tortoise Match to Come or?
THE CANADIAN PACIFIC ROAD.
AN UNEXPECTED PARADISE.
TAPPING THE SOURCES OF Immigration.
THE CANADIAN PACIFIC ROAD.
AN UNEXPECTED PARADISE.
More Rapid Transit to
Hong Kong.

MONTREAL, August 2. 1873.
While the seli-confdent hare fell asleep in the
race the steady podding tortoise lesurely touched
the goal question forces itself upon me, ais
there q national hare and tortoise match in pro-
gress ON this Continent Y'' And, II 80, SIS the nim-
be-footed hare mapping in the expectation of an
easy victory in consequence of having had the for
tune OF long start III advance of her competitor ~
These interrogatories never troubled me until
my base OF observation was changed from the
United States TO the Dominion OF Canada, and lest
there be some who may carelessy misconstrue
my application OF the familiar fable, will remark
that find no such evidences of rapid progress in
Canada as would justify an attempt to cast this
country tCanada) in the role OF the hare. There is
no rush, no hurry to get somewhere else before
anybody else on the part OF the Kanuck people yet
they are quietly taking very long strides up the
pathway OF empire, and they may, one OF these
days, earn Ior their country better reputation
than that Of being merely the great refrigerator
for the family OF nations.
1t is astonishing to find how rapidly the SHOWS
and Ice with which ignorant geographers have
screened half the continent melt away before the
blazing sun of reportorial inquiry and turn into
endless miles OF navigable streams and lakes, avail
able during season full as long as that enjoyed by
the boatmen on the Hudson and on Lake Cham
plain. Because In Saratoga the thermometrical
mercury finds it's way down to thirty degrees below
zero in mid-winter it has been popularly argued
that it easily touches fifty degrees below on the
banks of the ottawa, and congeals for SIX months
in The year Just north OF Lake Superior ana in
that remOter northwest locality where Lord Cor
dons body-snatchers have lately procured invOlun-
tary. board and lodgings for themselves. Until
Waddington made pubic the report OF his explo
rations across the Continent, along the belt OF
between
aels OF north latitude, the London clubs and the
British Parliament to say nothing OF the imperial
press knew less OF the physical aspects and capa-
hilitles, and OF the cmatOlogy OF British America,
than they did OF the Ujijl suburbs be-
fore Staney's return from his polite call
on the obscure celebrity, DR.. Living
stone. To Americans the same region has, except
among few scientific men or a sprinkng OF no.
madic trappers and a chance missionary, remained
virtually a terra aacOg1ata down to the present
time The popular impression has, however, been
dispe,led that the chilled inhabitants OF unsunned
latitudes below Hudson Bay and long Lake Winni-
victuals, topped of with unlimited quantities of
ice cream, the whole rendered gupabie by an
casional variation resulting from the capture Of
some very green seal, thoroughly iced before
being hampercd Nothing that the outside world
imagined OF this newly penetrated district is true
1t seems On the contrary, the reverse OF ali errO-
neOus specnatons is being ably demonstrated to
exist, If not throughout the whole northern con-
tinental cxpanse, at least over wide territorial
area from the great lake borders TO the Pacific
coast
1t was nominated IN the bond' Of Dominion,
that railroad to the British ports on the Pacific
Ocean should be built within ten or fifteen years
after confederation, at the urgent demand of
British Columbia and, In preparing to fulfil the
contract Canada has discovered ut almost amounts
to discovery what was only vaguely related be-
fore, that the centre of her continental POSSESSIONS
is the most fertile for cereals ana grasses in
all North America. The reports OF the government
statisticians in relation to the immense valleys
watered by the Red and Saskatchewan Rivers
have guickened public ambition, and caused gen
eral stampede from the Old humdrum traditional
poncy OF doing everything for the greater honor
and glory of England. The belief is gaining that
the Canadian Northwest is a finer grain, pasture
and timber region than any that the United states
can show, and the consequent cry is, "Let MS de-
velope our own resources. Let us foster enigra-
ton. Let us follow the fOurishing lead OF the
Union. Let Mother England flIrt with the Shah ana
fret about her heathen in India We have the
terlas ior first class state right at hand, and we
may a. well go into the government business on
our own account"
Accordingly the Canadian tortoise has entered
World generation hence.
REfiTTING WITH MODERN IMPROVEMENTS.
Twenty years ago the locomotive made It's debut
in the province OF ontario, and the first screw
steamer from Liverpool entered the st. Lawrence.
Twenty-sx Years ago the Grand Trunk Railway
was commenced, winch was completed In 1860,
when the Prince Of Wales nauguI ated the Victoria
Bridge. seventeen years ago the now powerful
fleet OF steamers known as the Allan Line was
established to ply between Montreal and Glasgow
and Liverpool. the first telegraph wires were
stretched over colonial territories in 1916 In 1869
government
IntercOl0nlal Railway, IRON Rivere du Loup to
Halifax, and the year following surveys were made
for an iron highway to the Pacific through British
territory.
From tins it appears that the people of the pres
ent Dominion OF Canada have only begun to enjoy
the benefits Of the worlds modern improvements
within the last five and twenty years, while during
full twenty years of that period the loyal popula-
ton participated only in such public enterprises as
received the sanction OF home government alike
ignorant OF and indifferent TO the necessities OF its
cis-Atlantc cOonIsts with confederation, in
1867 the first spark OF ambition was kindled IN the
Canadian breast, and the dream OF q great ma.
tionality presented itself to the popular imagina
In 1850, when the United States claimed popu.
among the frst Powers OF Chrstendom' there we're
scarcely more than two million subjects OF the
British crown In all North America. AcOmputation
shows Canadian and Provincial population OF
about five millions, demonstrating that while the
States have not quite doubled their pop ulati0n in
the twenty three years now ending, the increase
in the Dominion lot the same length OF time has
been almost three-lOd-a ratio OF growth that II
maintained to the close of the century will insure
the establishment Of a truly powerful nationality
along our entire Northern frontier.
TOUTING FOR EMIGRANTS.
As only 100000 emgrants settled In Canada be-
tween the years 1851 and 1871, the probability OF
the nigh rate OF increase being continued is rea-
sOnable, for now the government IL taking the
most active measures toinduce the hardy peasantry
and operatives OF Northern Europe and the British
Isles to locate upon It's vast domains along the lake
borders and through the fruitful valley OF the
Saskatchewan. Colonization agencies are being
established in Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales,
Norway, sweden, Denmark, Holland, the German
Empire. France, and switzerland, and by personal
EFFORT as well as by the clever Of printers ink,
the prospective advantages to health and pocket
obtalnablc in land OF SURPRISING agricultural and
mineral wealth, and under q government republi-
can in everything save the name, are systemati.
caly pictured to the Millions whose one prayer Is
that they may soon De able to sail for America.