The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-17

IL AAAG AeAEE Hal AADAAA AlAAtEafAr We nave
received from the state Departments Of the
Dominion Of Canada n number Of docu-
ments relating to the condition, capabiIi-
ties, and prospects Of that country. These
are prepared for distribution i'm those
countries from which streams Of emfgrants
are constantly flowing TO the uudeveloped
and waste places Of the earth and for the
people Of those countries they will be found
to be documents containing most valuable
information. Here they have not the same
Importance, but we have found them to
be, nevertheless, full Of most interesting
matter. Among themis a speech delivered
by the Marquis of LOrne, the Governor
General Of the Dominion, at q dinner given
To him at Winnipeg, the capital Of Mani
toba, after his return from a journey
through the more settled portions of the
northwest territory Of Canada and the
States Of .he Union which adjoin it. This,
both for its elOquence, and for the ready
wit and fullness of observation which
characterize it, gives us IN exalted idea Of
the character and capabilities of the dis
tinguished speaker. At the same time we
have gathered from it information as
to the character and resources of North
western Canada, which has been a surprise
to US. 1t is, indeed, but lately that the
Canadians themselves have learnt the
value of this great region, and its ability to
support in prosperity an enormous popula-
ton. 1t is no wonder, therefore, that by
the outer world it is still popularity sup
posed to be an ~inhOspitabIe wilderness, and
that the ~favOrite scheme of Canadian states
men and business men, the Canadian Pacific
railway, has been locke upon by many as
q wild and foolish undertaking.. Neverthe-
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territory, which that railway will traverse
for 500 miles Of its course, that United
States Consul Taylor was thinking when in
one of its Reports to the Government of his
country, he said: "Taree-fourths of the
wheat-producing belt of North America are
north of the national CU. s. boundary
Through this country, in the latter part OF
the summer of 1851, Lord Lorne and his
party drove nearly 800 miles after leaving
the furthest point to which the railway
had at that time penetrated. His state
ments about it are, therefore, those of an
eyewitness He says of it 1.-THE Province
is a green sea over which the summer winds
pass laden with the scent of rich grasses
and flowers, and over this vast extent il is
only as yet here and there that a yellow
patch shows some gigantic wheat field"
1t is to open out this vast prairie that the
Canada Pacific railway is being built. and
not for the mere within or sentiment of con-
Meeting he two great oceans by a line ex-
clusively Canadian. 1t is n matter of his
tory now how rapidly the similar country
of the Western States of the Union has
attracted and absorbed vast populations
and it is a simple and sure deduction from
that history that this northwest territory
of Canada will, now that it is fairly opened,
become the seat of a great producing popu-
-fati0n, Snrthat by rs aid Cafrad& will
make strides, both in numbers and wealth,
such as those she has hitherto enviously
watched her great and favored neighbOr
making. For the land is abundantIy sup
piled by nature with internal communica-
tions through the great river Saskatchewan.
This river, some of whose sources at the
base of the Rocky Mountains are close to
those from which the great Missouri takes
its rise, has many branches, all flowing
westward through this land of promise till
they unite to form the great river which
discharges itself into Lake Winnipeg. The
river and its branches are available for
steamers of considerable size through 1900
miles of their course, so that, with the
assistance of the Canada Pacific railway
and its numerous branches, the settler viii
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are to be found in the most favored cOun-
tries. The Marquis of Lorne, therefore,
cannot be accused of viewing matters
through rose-colOred spectacles. Another
authority says of the country "The prairie
division of the Dominion contains, pro-
baby the largest continuous tract of country
in the world adapted to the growth of wheat
and other cereals, and peculiarly fitted for
embarrassing, especially on the Western
plateau where cool and abundant water Is
combined with an exceptionally moderate
climate"
Not many years hence the country thus
described will have secured railway COM
municatiOn with the Pacific Ocean. From
where it leaves the prairie land to its ter
minus at BurraTd Inlet, the distance is less
than five hundred miles, and the company
which is constructing the line is under
obligations to complete it before the end of
1891. The difficulties of construction which
they will have to conquer are said to be
very much less than those which the Cen
trail Pacific Railway had to contend with.
With the completion of that line, and the
settlement of its northwest territory, a new
era sets i'm for the Dominion of Canadian
era of prosperity and of material strength
which, but very few years ago. her most
imaginative statesmen did not venture to
dream of. Lord Lorne had, therefore,
reason on his side when, after a humorous
reference to the Vaccinations of certain
English and American writers as to the
future absorption of Canada into the Amer
lean Union, he went on to say:
Gentlemen believe that Canadians are we'll
able 20 take care Of themselves, Of their future
and the outside world had better listen TO them in
stead Of Promulsating weak and Wild theories II
its own loud aPpalauseJ But, however Uuccr-
tain, and / may add, foolish may be such fore
casts, Of one thing we may be sure, which i this.
that the country Won call Canada and which yoUr
sons and your children's children viii be proud To
know by that name Is a land which viii be a land
Of power among the nations Cheers Mistress
Of n zone Of territory favorable for the maintenance
Of numerous and homogeneous white population
Canada must. to judge from the increase in her
strength during the past and from the many and
vast opportunities for the growth Of that strength
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