The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-11-12
GREAT FUTURE OF
The NEW CANADA
Frank G. Carpenter Begins Series
Of Letters From the Lands
Beyond the Lakes.
"a VAST UNEMPLOYED REGION:
The New States and Their Possi-
bilitiesThe Great
Granery.
A VAST UNEMPLOYED REGION.

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BY Frank G. carpenter.
Special Correspondence Of The Times.
Dispatch.) A.
f MONTREAL, November Ia have y
come to Canada to investigate the in-s
#dustrial revolution gong on in the north
ern part Of our continent. The United
States IS largely developed. Our public
lands are almost all taken up. we have
chopped down the trees and dug up the
SOL We have Eridironed our country !.
with railroads and established q great
cites. We have gone down into the
mines and erected mighty factories and
GLoundrles ana as nation, are growing NJ
SO rapidly that the other powers upon s.
earth are bowling down before us as tho *
lsraelites did before the golden calf
Canada islat Its beginning. It was born sE
at about the same time as the United
States but It has been sleeping unt,I n
now now. It Is, in fact, an undeve,oped co,n-s s
try, It's resources almost funknown and
10 large part s,lnexplored. n s.sg
Canada s Enormous Extent.
Have you ever thought how much land \
Canada has The possessions Of John Bull u
on this continent are greater than those
OF OF Uncle Sam. His Britannia majesty ID f
the land grabber OF the universe, and his
properties here are bigger than any
Where else In the world. Canada ID Y
twice tn size of ndla; It Is bigge thar, 2
australia and 1t IS thirty times as Sic 81
I as Great Britain and Ireland It3containsS
one-third Of the land Of the whola ~ IL
l ls1 empire Indeed lit Is continent In
ITSELF; for Il $is almost as large as Europa NJ
and bigger than the United States. 5iY,-S@
Guiding Alaska, Porto Rico Hawaii. WI
samoa Ca and the Philippines all put to.5is.
An Y Unknown Empire.
canada has has. states the names OF which "
We hard lyi know. We pat ourselves On nIII. II
> backs when We think Of Alaska and Eita N
d ast developing resources. 1t n containaIs 4
about Z. on s. OF ali the land that We n
4 own me ne province OF Mack emile, which,
borders the Arctic Ocean farther aaat.S3s
ward. Is almost as big a. Alaska aTd
Yukon ,l which lies Just west. Of il, con
tanning the klond Ike, would make Sfo,i,rrJsg
States Is big as Ohio &
Rave you ever heard Of ungaya? SIt9
J l'es between Labra dor and Hudson Bay
Just north Of the province OF Quebec N.Y.
ana It's bigger than Texas. Kansas andSl
New Jersey combined. Keewatin. On r hns
western side Of that bay,F,tust north 81 ss
Ontario and bounded on the west bY
Manitoba Saskatchewan ana Mackenzie, VI
has 40, 900 square miles, or enough to n
make ten States the size OF New York KS
while the Icy territory Of Franklin
above. with its great whale fishing "
grounds Is larger still. slfss
Everyt thing In CanadaBi Is big. The old III
provinces are enormous. Quebec Il ten III
times as big as Indiana Ontario Just Isl
over the way above the Great Lakes. il IN
bigger than France or Germany. IT IL W
bigger than all New. England. with the
addition Of New York, Pennsylvania and M
Virginia. Manitoba Is about as large 40 I
Missouri, and, the Canadians claim, al
most as rich The new provinces OF S
Saskatchewan and Alberta. which have
Just been created, are empires In them-
selves Each Of them has an area 4
something like that OF France or Ger-
wheat than either Of those countries.
They ire crossed by the Canadian Pas
cific Railway, and other railroads will
soon open up their northern sections. III
Those provinces arc being rapidly colo.
nized by American farmers. and am Ii.
told that an American Canada Is grow M
Ing up right across the border. British
Columbia. the mighty province Of tho far
West, is another empire, through which, 4
portion has climate somewhat liks q
that OF Washington or Oregon, and the
are said to be rich Ia gold,
copper and other minerals. N
Canada-A New Country.
This gives some idea OF tho new Cans Of
ada. say new because the Oldest things
arc new when first known, md Canada w
Is just becoming known to tho world.
AS far as tho original discovery IA con- 4
eerned it Is the Oldest part at North
America. ss.s
4 Left Ericsson, Norwegian, discovered Il
and Nova Scotia by sails n
Ing down from Iceland almoAt $40 ysara
before Columbus came across the Atiahs
&c and landed upon tho Wast Indies,
John Cabot was the next arrival. lttla
after Columbus. and 1t waA about n
later that the Trench sent
out Jacques Cartier, who discovered the q
mouth OF the st. Lawrence and sntied "A
W through 1t to Quebec Thu next year
le made his way as far nA Montreal,
and gave the Frendh their titld to Gan.
ada by right OF discovery The Fronch
, million and ha'f French Canadians
,o-day, and the people Of that region q
stu speak French and have papers pub
lished In TINT lnrEnave, l
Every American knows Of the conquest
IT Canada by the British. Its story
las been that OF British colony from
hen until now. and 1t is a British de-
tendency TODAY. T'ta country has grown 4
slowly in population until recently, y
las now altogether less than five and
half millions, but It has had more than
M con American irnmivrnn's w'thl a ss. =.
,ast two wears and neople ars coming IN
~ the thousand from the different pats
II northern Europe. What this lmnH-
raton = mounts tn. Tire "stt'r'r'ants &
he Americans and what they are dolns,
md the general development OF ths taF
Western lands OF the country will form q
arge part OF my writing during ths N
our
New Thinpsi in Canada.
7 want 10 tell you something about the
lew things going on here, The country
4 being onened IN by railroads and there
are al sorts OF new lines OF TRANSPORTER a
Ion proposed, both by water and By
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