The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-10
INVADING CANADA
The Northwest Colonization Company lr
the Van Of a HIstory-Mak-

The time is coming when it will be
recognized that the great northwestern
American land companies, which have put
Canadian lands before people who hardly
thought of the existence Of Canada for
merly. will be acknowledged to have taken
a spacious part in determining the future
of no small portion Of the American con-
timent. These companies having swept
over the field in Wisconsin,, Minnesota,
Iowa and the Dakotas, yes, Nebraska, too.
were In fine fettle and keen training for
the exploitation of Canadian lands. They
had early in their operations appreciated
| the worth Of prairie Canada. and when
the hour came to strike, they struck.
When the hour Of Canada's destiny struck,
as some phrase maker has it, the Ameri-
can land companies made a strike.
In the van Of the great companies that
altogether have bought 25, 900, 900 acres
half the area Of Minnesota-in western
Canada, is the Northwest Colonization
company, 422-434 Endicott building. ST.
Paul AS the Minnesota Lard and Colo
nization company, this aggregation of en-
terprise had sold hundred Of thousands
! of acres of Minnesota park region lands
being parts of Northern Pacific and Great
Northern land grants. before it entered
Canada at all. At first operating in Mani
toba only, it soon extended it's field OF
ownership into Assiniboia, at that time
taking on the name Of the Northwest
Colonization company.
o. A. Robertson. one Of the stronges
men in the land business IS president
F. E. Kenaston, the well-known Mime
apols banker and manufacturer, is vice
president; F. B. Lynch is secretary; H
w. Donovan, assistant secretary; S. A
Harris, treasurer, and J. G. Wood, assist
ant treasurer.
/ AS an operator in Canadian lands, thi:
company has proceeded with the same
energy, the same scrupulous regard TO
agreements, the same accommodating
spirit, the same generosity that charac
terized it as a Minnesota corporation ant
a seller of Minnesota lands. 1t has sim
ply joined the northwestern trend Of thu
land business. The Illinois man moves int
Iowa, the Iowa man moves into Mime
sofa or the Dakotas, the Minnesota mai
moves north in his own state or Wiscon
sin or the Dakotas, and the northern Min
, nesota and Dakota men cross the boun
, Diary into Canada. Lately they have be
gun to leap from Iowa and Illinois t
Canada In a single jump.
The Northwest Colonization compan.
was on the ground early enough to picl
up some of the best wholesale bargain
to be found in Manitoba, even at a tim
when the Manitobans did not fully appre
ciate the worth of their own lands. II
Assiniboia this company bought from tn
Canadian Pacific Railway company SOM
southeastern portion of Assiniboia which
, is considered by many experts not onl.
the best part Of Assiniboia, but the bes
hard wheat land in the whole world, TIL
company's sales during the past season
have been very large and the number o
inquiries it Is receiving and the group
of land seekers it is weekly dispatchin
. to it's tracts, indicate that the movement
of settlers into its part Of Assiniboi
and Manitoba will soon be larger tina
ever. At the Illinois state fair last wee
the company was efficiently represente
by John H. Douglass whom more tina
a hundred people promised to visit tn
company's lands this fall and winter.
: All signs point to an interest in Cana
dian lands this coming year far surpassin
3 anything Canada has ever known. Eng
. lish and French, as we'll as America
capital Is pouring in, and sharp advanc
in land prices is predicted by all tn
knowing ones. The vast nav Of the Ian
t hungry millions Of America Is even equs
s to the task Of hastily devouring all tn
cheap lands of far-f1ung Canada.