Evening star., 1905-11-11
CANADA WAKING Up
Frank Carpenter Writes Of
Land Beyond the Lakes.
ITS VAST RESOURCES
SOME OF THE NEW STATES AND
THEIR POSSIBILITIES.
Montreal in 19O5-An Interview With
the Mayor--Boodling and Munich
pal Ownership.
Copyright. 1905. by Frank G. Carpenter.)

Copyright, 1905 by Frank G. Carpenter)
MONTREAL.
I have come to Canada to investigate the
Industrial revolution going on In the north
srn 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
soil We have gridroned our country with
railroads and established great cities. We
have gone down into the mines and erected
mighty factories and foundries. and as a
nation, are growing SO rapidly that the
other powers upon earth are bowling down
before us as the Israeites did before the
golden calf. Canada is at It's beginning.
1t was born at about the same time as the
United Statas, but it has been sleeping
I'll now. 1t Is, in fact, undeveloped coun-
try, its resources almost unknown and to
q large part unexplored.
Canada's Enormous Extent.
Have you ever thought how much land
Canada has? The possessions of John Bull
on this continent greater than those of
Uncle Sam. His Britannia majestey Is the
land grabbsE OF the universe, and his prop
e,ties here are bigger than anywhere else
In the world. Canada is twice the size of
India; 1t 10 bigger than Australia and it is
thirty timca as big as Great Britain and
Ireland. 1t contains one-third of the land
OF the whole British empire. Indeed 1t il
continent in itself; for 1t Is almost as
large as Europe and bigger than the United
States, including Alaska. Porto Rico, Ha-
wall, Samoa and the Philippines all put to-
gether.
An Unknown Empire.
Canada has states the names of which
we hardly know. We pat ourselves on our
backs when We thi4aa of Alaska and it's
faG lnrfY Tt
Sbout one-Hfth of all the land that we own.
Hhe province OF Mackenzie, which borders
the Arctic ocean farther eastward is al
most as big as Alaska, and Yukon, which
lies just west of It. containing the Klon-
dixie. would make four states big as
Ohio.
Have you ever heard of Ungava? IT lies
between Labrador and Hudson's bay, just
north of the province of Quebec, and it is
bigger than Texas, Kansas and New Jer-
sey combined. Keewatin, on the western
side Of that bay, Just north of Ontario and
bounded on the west by Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan and Mackenzie, has 100000
square miles, or enough to make ten states
the size of New York: while the icy terri
tory OF Franklin above, with It's great
whale-fshing grounds, is larger still
Everything in Canada is big. The old
provinces are enormous. Quebec Is ten
times as big as Indiana. Ontario just over
she way above the Great Lakes, is bigger
than France or Germany. 1t Is bigger
New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Manitoba is about as large as Missouri,
.and, the Canadians claim, almost as rich.
3rhe new provinces of Saskatchewan and
-Alberta. which have just been created are
empires in themselves. Each of them has
an area something like that of France or
Germany, and parts OF them will raise more
wheat than either of those countries. They
are crossed by the Canadian Pacific rail-
way. and other railroads will soon open
up their northern sections. Those provinces
I1N~ " a m or 90 n
farmers. and am told that an American
Canada is growing up right across the bor-
der. British Columbia, the mighty prov
ince of the far west. Is another empire
through which the new railroads will CO.
Its western portion has a climate some-
what like that of Washington or oregon.
and the mountains are sail to be rich In
gold. copper and other minerals.
Canada-A New Country.
This gives some idea of the new Canada.
/ say new because the oldest things are
new when first known. and Canada is
Just becoming known to the world. AS
far as the original discovery is concerned
1t is the oldest part of North America.
Left Ericsson, a Norwegian, discovered
Newfoundland and Nova Scotia by sailing
down from Iceland almost 500 years before
Columbus came across the Atlantic and
landed upon the West Indies. John Cabot
was the next arrival. little after Column
bus, and II was about a generation later
that the French sent out Jacques Cartier
who discovered the mouth of the St Law
renee and sailed up throagr it to Quebec.
The next year he made his way as far as
Montreal and gave the French lheir title to
Canada by right of discovery. The French
settled that part of Canada. There are a
million and half French Canadians today
and the people of that region still speak
French and have papers published in that
language.
Every American knows OF the conquest OF
Canada by the British. Its story has been
that of British colony from then until
now and II is British dependency today
The country has grown slowly in popula-
ton until recently. It has now altogether
less than five and a half millions, but K
has had more than 10000 American ims-
grants within the past two years and peo-
pie are coming in by the thousand from
the different parts OF northern Europe
what this immigration amounts to, the set
Elements OF the Americans and what they
are doing. and the general development of
zee Iar westera lands OF the country will