Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-11-04
EDITORS RETURN HOME
TRIP OF NEARLY 1000 NILES THROUGH
CANADA is COMPLETED.
Visit the Cities Of Brandon and Winnipeg.
Where They are Royalty Entertained.
and Get to st. Paul in Time to
Take in the State Fair

passed across the Saskatchewan line into
Manitoba, stopping at Souris, where a
couple of hours were pleasantly spent
J in a drive through the wheat fields.
This is a town of 1,500 people, and one
of the most prosperous in the province
The country about has been settled
since 1880, and is in a splendid condi-
| ton.
A short run from here brought us to
| Brandon, one of the most prosperous
and progressive cities of Canada, second
in size to Winnipeg in Manitoba and
1873 miles west. 1t is situated in the
beautiful valley of the Assiniboine river
and has a population of $4,000 The
central experimental farm of the
| Dominion is located here, and we
greatly enjoyed drive to this farm,
noting with surprise the development of
grains, vegetables, fruits, flowers, and
| forestry. Also to the Indian school and
insane hospital, large modern institu-
| tons. Brandon has the largest area of
high class wheat land tributary to it of
any city in Manitoba, and is in fact in
the center of the greatest wheat pro-
ducing district in the world The city
is beautifully laid out, and its streets,
stores, and public buildings compare
very favorably with American cities of
larger proportions.
We left Brandon at 1900 o'clock 6
o'clock, American time) and running
through beautiful, rich wheat country,
arrived at Cerberry an hour later. This
town is situated in the beautiful plains
district, and for thirty miles to the
north and east is beautiful level and
productive plain. Here we were also
given drive to the wheat fields, and
at 1915 o'clock left for the city of
Winnipeg, from which point we had
started couple of weeks before on the
long trip to the northwest arriving
early in the evening.
; This is the largest city in Western
Canada; the capital of the Province of
Manitoba, and the commercial, political
and industrial centre of the province
1t has a population approximately OF
l25,OOO people, although only 81 years
lago its population did not reach lis
souls. 1t is situated on the Red river
and the Assiniboine river. and its
growth during the last ten years has
oh ho,
doubled its population twice in that
time. As the seat of Government for
the Province of Manitoba it possesses
in addition to the Legislative Assembly
Buildings a considerable number of
very handsome public ediiices connected
with municipal. provincial. and Do
minion governments. In addition to the
handsome and centrally located city hall,
Winnipeg possesses magnificent new
normal school, stately and attractive
library building, new post-office build
ings, while some of its beautiful streets,
such as Main street, Portage avenue,
and Broadway. are among the finest
thoroughfares on the continent of
America. 1t is a carefully and econ
omically governed city, its streets being
wide, well graded, paved, and, for the
most part. we'll shaded with trees In
addition to a number of high schools
there are at least 80 large and sub
stantial public schools The Main street
lof Winnipeg. which was originally Old
Fort Garry, is built upon the trail
north to the timber countries of
Saskatchewan. Winnipeg has $40 acres
of park playground, owns its own
quarries. water works, asphalt plant,
and street lighting system. 1t is
essentially the western centre of the
wholesale and hardware houses of
Canada I occupies 1903 acres with
a total assessed property of $l0o,lSS,SS3.
There are 3l7 miles of sidewalks. and
25S miles of paved and graded streets.
Besides a police force of 100 men, it
has a force of l39 firemen on constant
duty, together with nine district fire
stations scattered throughout the city.
Although not great manufacturing
centre il has about l40 profitably oper-
ated factories of one kind or another,
including flour mills, packing factories,
and iron works. 1t is becoming one OF
the great railway centres of this part OF
North America, and in addition to the
magnificent station depot and buildings
of the Canadian Pacific railway, con-
tracts have been let and construction
commenced for the erection of great
union station, which will ultimately
house the Canadian Northern, as wei
as the National Transcontinental rail
way, and when finished it will be one
of the most imposing, as well as the
largest and most convenient railway
building i'll the Dominion. It's geo
graphical position is almost midway
between the Atlantic and the Pacific
and its enormous and diversified inter
ests permanently ensure for it a great
future. and greater development thar