The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-03-22
THE TEEMING WEST.
The Prairie Lands of Western Canadf
Being Filled with Excel
lent Settlers.

The salient fact that presents itself
in taking a bird'seye view of the
Canadian West, is that of intense ac-
tivity in every department. Whether
the glance be turned upon the dis
trct east of Winnipeg, the Red River
Valley south or north, the Dauphin
and NJ. & N. w. district, the South
western, or whether it take in the
great central division along the main
line of the C. p. r. stretching away
out to the Rockies and from there
bending north and south to Prince
Alberta and Edmonton, Mcleod and
thbridge-whether the examination
be made in any of these directions the
same activity, growth and hopeful
ness is observable.
The Canadian west is not only a
good place to locate permanently, but
it is also good place to invite their
relatives and friends to come to.
This is the spirit that seems to ami
mate the west at the present time
and it's effects are to be seen on every
hand. To enumerate the towns where
handsome and substantial blocks and
residences have gone up this year
would be simply to give list of the
towns and villages along the railway
lines. And this movement has not
been confined to these centers OF pop
ulation, but in many cases 1T has been
overshadowed by the improvement in
farm buildings.
So far as one can see, this is no
passing phase, no repetition OF any
temporary boom following a period
of good crops and fair prices. 1t is
a movement more spontaneous, more
general more marked than anything
that has gone before, and seems to
| indicate that the Great West, like
Samson, bursting the encompassing
bands, has awakened to period of
activity and development that will
surpass anything we have known in
the past and which will only be par
| alleled by the opening out of some
! of the most fertile of the western
states of the union.
Look at some of the figures. Over
q thousand schools in Manitoba and
the number going up by leaps and
bounds. Something like five hundred
schools in the Territories. Winnipeg
as representing the gateway OF the
west, the third city in the Dominion
in regard to bank clearings, postal
business and probably in regard tc
customs: the custom return at Win
nipeg running about thirty to forty
per cent. greater month by month
than in the fiscal year of 1918, the
largest previous year for actual bust
ness entries, when over 100000 was
paid through the Winnipeg Office fol
duty. The C p. r. and Canada
Northwest land sales together run
ming over $1,5OO,000 for the year
These, and a thousand more sign!
show how the west has leaped into
new life.
This is an inspiring and cheering
spectacle, but it brings with it grea
responsibilities. The business mer
realize this, the banks realize it, anC
have spread their agencies through
every busting little town clear ou'
to the coast, the churches realize it
and one denomination alone ha!
opened an average of about thir
ty new stations in each of thu
past two years, and will increas'
this in the year now entered upon
the government departments real
ize it, and there is talk of redistribu
ton and additional members. TIL
educational branches realize it ant
new schools are springing up every
where. Over 10000 settlers came il
from the United States alone las
year, and these with the people VIII
came in from the east prove the mos
rigorous Westerners. They lose n
time in developing their farms. i
filling their grazing lands with stoc
and in every district is to be foun
evidences of thrift and prosperity.