The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-25
canadian Pacific land sales were

The sales Of other land companies were
proportionately large. The persevering
efforts Of the Canadian innigra ton
agents in Britain had been gradually pro-
duclng some effect and have been aided by
the reports of the huge crops requiring the
importation Of harvest hands in thousands
from eastern Canada and Britain to gar
ner them. The active part taken by Ca
nadlans in the South African war decid-z
eddy attracted attention to the land in
which such heroes were bred. But the
thrush OF Americans to fill up the vacant
lands of the west more than any other cir
cumstance opened the eyes Of the British
em1grant to the advantages of taking the
direct road to Canada. When so many
American farmers found Canada Offering
SO much better inducements than their
own country, British agricultural emf
grants naturally concluded that Canada
must be also "a. better. field for their ener-
gies. So now we hear of 1thousandsSof
Engllshmen, such as were wont before to
flock to the United States, NOV making
preparations to; share with their American
cousins taeS sdvantages so freely offered
on the Canadian prairies. From both
American and British sources the stream
of iHmigrati ton this season is certain to
exceed all past movements of population
into Canada, and it's western plains will
thenceforward become settled as rapidly
as were the prairie states Of the American
union. a.E;
Manitoba and the territorial districts. iof
Assiniboia, Saskatchewan j and Alberta,
between the forty ninth and fifty fifth par
allels, possess an area Of. s379 900 square
miles, almost every mile (which. is val
liable either for It's arabic, grazing or tim
Der lands or it's waters. ~
Here it is proper to state in elucida-
ton of references to climate, that, were
there no mountains intervening between
them and the PACIFIC ocean, the Canadian
prairies would possess a climate even
warmer than hat@cnjoyed by the cou1l2
tries Of western Europe under the same
ATTITUDES. The Rocky mountains bar the
passage Of the warm winds from the Pa
citic ocean. but through gaps and passes
admit blasts Of hot air to be waited over
and thus modify thelclimate of the cou,1-
try lying ;hundreds Of miles east5!of tile
range. This wind which blows wherever
it listeth, whether emitted by the! Crows
Nest Pass over the land of the cowboy,
in southern Alberta, is. known as the
Chinook. whose influence, gradually de-
creasing as it moves east,extends at least
as far as Battleford and Moosejaw. So
great is it's influence nearer the mountains
that the usual effect of great height
above sea level is neutralized, and Cal
gary, near the foot Of the mountains. 500
miles west of Winnipeg has mean tenn
peratures of 5S.S in summer, s13.9 in win
ter and 37.A for the year. as against Win
nepegs $50 SUMNER o. below zero win
ter, and 1878 annual mean; temperatures;
while the altitude of Calgary is. 1889 feet
and that of Winnipeg is only 76o feet
above sea. level When it is considered
that, Observation-Disclosures feet Of altitude
makes as much difference in temperature
as one degree of latitude. the power; of
the Chinook current S7in overcoming the
normal law of nature is manifest. Bur
again this law; which has been specially
modified by the Chinook in South Alberta,
comes into. play as from tho height of
land along. the. International boundaryszthe
altitude above the ssaTapid1y declines to
the ilorthHard;E& So that %Edmonto on, (which
is further from the mountains and 200
miles further north. than Calgary. and
whose hot air fue through the Jasper
Pass is of less capacity being 1,231 feet
lower, enjoys a summer temperature of
half a degree higher than Calgary.
Manitoba is too far west to. suffer. from
the bad effects OF the cold Arctic current
which flows along the, Atlantic coast of
Canada and which is responsible for the
hyperborean ideas entertained by many
Europeans and Americans about the whole