Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-20
Dominion of Canada.

The Dominion of Canada, the most important colony of Great Britain, is almost as large as our country, in cIuding Alaska, but it's population is less than twice that of New York city. 1t has room and work for many more million people. Canada may be divid- ed into four great regions.
 The winters of Canada are long and cold. The snow is deep, but the sum- mers are long and warm enough to mature crops, even a little maize be- ing raised in the east, so Canada Is great farming country.
 Seven -tenths of the people are farm CTS, producing a great deal more food than they can consume, so they have much 10 export.
 The largest food exports are wheat and wheat four.
 The western prairies, with their black loamy soil. are now the great centers of wheat raising. The. grain lakes to Montreal, where British steam ships load with export grain.
 The farmers of Ontario and Quebec give great attention to grazing and dairying products. They ship many thousands of cattle and sheep to the meat markets of England, besides a great deal of fresh and canned meats and poultry. Canada raises but a Ht- tie maize, so her pigs are fattened on peas.
 The exports of bacon are larger than all the other meat exports together.
 Half the milch COWS of Canada are in Ontario.
 Canada has a larger extent of forest than any other lumber-making coun- try. Pines, hardwoods and spruce make Ontario, Quebec and New Bruns- wick the largest sources of lumber and wood pulp. Hundreds of sawmills near Ottawa on Lake Ontario and Quebec make these cities the greatest centers of lumber trade.
 The yield of gold has quadrupled since the discovery of the Yukon gold | field in 1897. There are many other gold mining regions in British Colum- i bia, Western Ontario and Nova Scotia. About half the worlds supply of | nickel comes from the Sudbury dis trict, Ontario. The United States usu- | ally buys all of it.
 Silver, copper and other metals | abound; but, after gold, coal is the | largest mineral product. Most of ii | comes from Nova Scotia, Cape Breton 1 Island, and the islands of the Pacific | coast.
 progress, though the population is toe small as yet for the highest industria. l development.
 Only the coarser kinds of cotton and woolen textiles are made. Clothing furniture, agricultural implements 1 | leading products. England takes near. | Iy all the leather. and we share largely
 in wood pulp.
 The lakes, 73 miles of canals ana l the St. Lawrence river make a contin. uous inland waterway from Lake Su' perior to the Gulf of St. Lawrence
 Considerable of our merchandise, in, cluding maize, wheat, flour and manu l factures, take this route to Europe Many railroads connect Canada witt the United States. The Canadian Pa ciic railroad across the continent il
 the most direct route for the trade O. Europe with the Orient.
 Montreal, the largest seaport, anC
 center of commerce, is connected b, regular steamship lines with England Scotland and Ireland. All the gulf O St. Lawrence ports are closed by ic,
 in winter. MontreaPs winter trade i done through Halifax. N. S., and Port 1 land, Me!
 The ports of Vancouver and victori;
 are outlets for the Pacific trade. | JOHN B. PURCELL, Age IA. Colchester.