Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-10-10
A Glimpse of Canada
Especial Correspondence
Winnipeg, Canada.


or something better. You go to bed
in Minneapolis wishing to be in Win
nipeg, and 10 and behold when you
wake, there you are! So different
and the surroundings and so easily
and peacefully the trip has been made
that it semes as if it was dream.
The last thing you remember every
thing was American, now everything
is typically British. More English
than England is the helmeted "Bob-
bic" that guards the entrance to the
station. Next door at the Royal Al
exandria, you find yourself in the
presence of a thoroughly Cosmopoli-
tan gathering. Every quarter Of the
globe seems to have it's representa-
ton, testing the wonderful stories
they have heard of Canadian prosper
ity. But in the afternoon when the
big, snowy lobby is turned into a tea
room, every space being occupied
by tea table, at which is served a
most refreshing and fragrant cup OF
tea, with the usual accompaniment
of toasted mullins and iced cake, the
| men being in the majority, you can
not realize that you are where few
years ago, the outposts of civilization
stood. But the Royal Alexandria is
but token of what will be seen on
| every side. We were fortunate to
have friends who were very alive
to the interests of the city. In their
splendid automobile we visited ev-
erything of interest. Splendid man
sions, boulevards, and parks mark
the city not only as center OF bus
mess activity but from civic and ar
tistic standpoint make it notable. A
group of relocated soldiers in the
distance, a party of equestrlans out
for a trot on their English nags, with
their stiff grooms in attendance, the
clean cut trig girl, with her glossy
hair and fresh complexion, all COM
bine to make this city foreign to what
lies lust across the border. We found
the city in gala attire for the visit OF
the Duke of Connaught and his family.
The Duke is very popular for 1t mas
been a long while since Canada has
had a member of the Royal family Tor
it's Governor-General. Princess Par
tricia or "Princess Pat" as she is al
fectionately called by every one, the
Dukes oldest daughter, is one OF the
most popular members Of the Royal
family. Like princess in real
fairy story, she is said to be IN love
with an untitled officer of the British
army and in spite of the royal
frowns and the royal laws, proposes
to marry him. Whether this is true
or not she is very human young Wo-
man of fine type
Western Canada was not settled
with those from its eastern provinces
that moved west as the United States
was. but it's population left the Ole
country for the purpose OF developing
the west, hence the fact that every
thing seen in the west is so mueh
more characteristic than IS found
in the eastern provinces. The peo-
nile, their clothes, the furniture, even
their food, bears unmistakable tes-
timony to the loyalty with which these
new corners turn to their old home.
The Americanization Of Canada Is III
the dim distance. In spite of the TACT
that many of the leading papers still
talk reciprocity, you find but few per-
sons in favor if it. The consefVa-
+;vos have new cause of congratuia-
tiop at this time as wheat is brlns-
inq a better price in Winnipeg imam
in Minneapolis. The superior price Oh
wheat usually to be gotten IN MIME
apolis was one of the most powerful
arguments used to the farmer IN Ia
vor of reciprocity.
Winnipeg is called the BREAD baS-
ket of the World" and as you look out
Of the ear window at the intermlnaoSe
stretches of wheat fields and remen-
Der they stretch in an almost ut-
broken line thousand miles west, II
should seem as if the name was DC
served. Saskatchewan alone mas
over five million acres in wheat. VIM
nipeg is just beginning plans TO pipe
natural gas for heating and lghtlng'
The cost to be twenty millions OF del
la-sl write this amount out IN 1uil
for if l put it in figures l am sure
most of my readers would think the
tvne-setter had made mistake; II
Is hard to believe place which was
co long the abode of trappers and
traders, alone, would so soon become
. n,etropolis. One of the remarkable