The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-06
THE TEEMING WEST.
Western Canada Prairie Lands Being
Filled with Excellent settlers.

Western Canada Prairie Lands Being
Filled with Excellent settlers.
The salient fact that presents itself
in taking a birdseye view of the Ca
madam West, is that of intense activi-
ty in every department. Whether the
glance be turned upon the district
east of Winnipeg, the Red River Val
ley south or north, the Dauphin and
NJ. & M. w. district, the Southwestern,
or whether it take in the great central
division along the main line of the G.
p. r., stretching away out to the
Rockies and from there bending north
and south to Prince Alberta and Ed
monitor, Mcleod and Lethbridge-
whether the examination be made Ia
any of these directions the same ac-
tivity, growth and hopefulness are OBJ
servable.
The Canadian West is not only a
good place to locate permanently,
but it is also a good place to invite
ones 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 a list of the
towns and villages along the railway
lines. And this movement has not
been confined to these centers of popu.
lation, but in many cases it has been
overshadowed by the improvement in
farm buildings.
So far as one can see, this is no pass
ing phase, no repetition of any tenn
porary boom following a period O:
good crops and fair prices. 1t is q
movement more spontaneous, more
general, more marked than anything
that has gone before, and seems to in
dictate that the great West, like Sam
son, bursting the encompassing bands
has awakened to a period of activity
and development that will surpass
anything we have known in the past
and which will only be paralleled by
the opening out of some OF the most
! fertile Of the western states OF the
union.
Look at some of the figures. Over .
thousand schools in Manitoba, and the
number going up by leaps and bounds;
something like 500 schools in the terri
tories. Winnipeg as representing the
! gateway of the West, the third city
in the Dominion in regard to bank
clearings, postal business and proba
bly, in regard to customs, the customs
return at Winnipeg running about 81
. to 40 per cent greater month by month
than in the fiscal year of 1878, 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 Canad;
Northwest land sales together running
over 81 100000 for the year Thes'
and a thousand more signs show how
the West has leaped into new life.
This is an inspiring and cheerln!
spectacle, but it brings with 1t grea
responsibilities. The business mel
realize this, the banks realize ii ant
have spread their agencies through
every bustling little town clear out Z
the coast; the churches realize it, AM
one denomination alone has opened al
average of about thirty new station
in each of the past two years, and will
increase this in the year now entered
upon; the government department
realize it, and there is talk of reds
tribution and additional members. Tn
educational branches realize it, an
new schools are springing up every
where. Over $4,000 settlers came il
from the United States alone last year
and these, with the people who cam
in from the East, prove the most rig
orous westerners. They lose no tim
in developing their farms, in fillin
their grazing lands with stock, and Il
every district is to be found evidence
of thrift and prosperity.