The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-01

| the Canadian Section of THE SUN, fee
justified In calling attention to one out
standing fact, namely: The total vdlne
| Of Cdnddd's exports Of dairy produce
IN 1918 ,ods the largest Of that Of any
country In the toorld Nth the exception
| Of the United States, whose large ex-
port OF condensed milk under the war
demand gives It the lead. The exports
from Canada were as follows:
Cheese. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $S76ss,b ss
Condensed milk, milk and cream sc7s,ss;
Total. .............. s5o.5ss,oot
Now for a bit of "Reminiscences, lead
ing up to some present day matters Of
interest:
The first introduction Of domestic
cattle into what is now Canadian terri
tory is said to have occurred in the year
1913, when Deron de Lery sailed from
France with The object of founding a
colony In the New World. Becoming
discouraged. he landed his live stock,
consisting Of cattle and horses, on Sable
Island, of the coast of Nova Scotia. The
cattle multiplied and existed on the ISL
| and for over 100 years. being finally ex-
terminated about 1880 by colonists from
Massachusetts, who organized expedi-
tons for the purpose Of killing the cattle
tally, the ponies exist there to this day
jacques Cartier brought over some
cattle on his third and last voyage to
the St Lawrence in 1541.
Dairy Farm Nearly 500 Years Old.
The next attempt to introduce domes-
tic cattle into what Is now Canadian
territory was in 1906. when Poutrincourt
n NJ Ian ay,t
founded by De Monts at Port Royal
tnow Annapolis. N. 81 in 1904; but the
first permanent introduction OF cows into
Canadian territory was undoubtedly
made by Champlain, at Quebec, in 1908
or 1910, ten years before the landing Of
the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth Rock.
In 1923. Champlain's colony had a
farm at Cap Tourmente. few miles be-
low Quebec city. with about seventy
head of cattle. A dairy farm has been
conducted on the same site continuously
since Champlain's time. The French
Canadian breed Of COWS in tho province
OF Quebec Is descended from these orig
inal cattle of Normandy and Brittany
brought over, by Champlain, and from
those which De Tracey landed from the
same source In 1866.
After 1892. when the AcadIan settle
ments in Nova Scotia and New Bruns-
wick began to acquire a permanent
character, a considerable number of cat
tie were procured. Following the expul-
sion of the Acadians In ITS, there was
largo migration into New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia from the New England
colonies, and these settlers brought
large number of their. cattle and other
farm animals with them.
In l7SS-l7s4. after the Revolutionary
War, the Loyalists who left the United
States for British territory also brought
cows into the Maritime Provinces, into
the Eastern Townships" of Quebec and
and into parts of the Province OF On
tario.
Cattle Shipped Over Rockies.
Cows were introduced into the terri
tory west of the great lakes by the
Hudson Bay Company and by Lord
Selkirk's settlers on the Red River in
1912. In 1923, a herd of 400 cattle
was driven from the United States into
the Red River settlement and disposed
of to the settlers.
Even as early as 1887 the Hudson
Bay Company had carried cattle over
the Rocky Mountains into the northern
Interior Of British Columbia for the use
OF the posts in that territory.
In 1913, when the Hudson Bay Com
pany realized that the boundary ques-
ton was likely to be settled. and the
Joint occupation OF the Oregon territory
terminated. 1t established a fort on what