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                           HOMES AND CAREERS
                               IN CANADA

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                            PUBLISHER’S NOTE


_After the sheets of this book were printed off, it was found that the
title chosen_, Making Good in Canada, _had been used for
another book that just secured priority of publication. It was necessary
to change the title, but the original title had to remain at the heads
of the pages._




[Illustration: PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS AT OTTAWA.]




                           HOMES AND CAREERS
                               IN CANADA




                                   BY
                                H. JEFFS


                      _WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS_


                                 LONDON
                JAMES CLARKE & CO., 13 & 14 FLEET STREET

                                  1914




                          THE AUTHOR’S THANKS

                                   TO

                        THE HON. DR. W. J. ROCHE

                   DOMINION MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR

                           FOR KINDNESS SHOWN




                                CONTENTS


                                  CHAPTER               PAGE

                    FOREWORD                             vii

                 I. WHY PEOPLE GO TO CANADA                9

                II. THE HOME OF A NATION                  25

               III. THE MAKING OF MODERN CANADA           31

                IV. THE ROMANCE OF RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION   50

                 V. SETTLING ON THE LAND                  70

                VI. CANADIAN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT      104

               VII. “REAL ESTATE”                        146

              VIII. THE HOMES OF CANADA                  164

                IX. LEAVING THE OLD COUNTRY              183




                             ILLUSTRATIONS


                                                                  PAGE

    PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS AT OTTAWA                      _Frontispiece_

    THE “EMPRESS OF BRITAIN” WITH EMIGRANTS AT RIMOUSKI             18

    SIX MONTHS OUT FROM HOME                                        24

    QUEBEC FROM THE RIVER                                           34

    COUNTRY SCENE IN OTTAWA                                         44

    THE POWER PLOUGH IN SASKATCHEWAN                                62

    EVANGELINE’S WELL, ANNAPOLIS VALLEY, NOVA SCOTIA                70

    STEAM PLOUGH IN ALBERTA                                         84

    TORONTO, YONGE STREET                                          104

    GALA DAY AT WINNIPEG                                           116

    REGINA                                                         126

    CALGARY                                                        137

    PLOUGHING AND HARVESTING                                       164

    STRATHCONA MONUMENT AT MONTREAL                                171

    A SASKATOON SCHOOL                                             182

    EMIGRANTS LANDED AT QUEBEC                                     188




                                FOREWORD

This book is the fruits of a visit to Canada in which the author crossed
the country from Montreal to Vancouver, and returned from Halifax, Nova
Scotia. As a journalist and National President of the Brotherhood
Movement, which advises Brotherhood emigrants going out, and arranges
for their welcome by Canadian Brotherhood men, he found all doors open
to him. He had countless talks with men of all classes, native Canadians
and British settlers who had been in the country from two or three to
forty years. Ministers of the Dominion and Provincial Governments freely
answered his numerous questions as to the wisest course to be adopted by
various classes of emigrants, and Dominion and Provincial State
officials gave him all possible information in frank talk and by placing
at his disposal valuable State publications. Ministers of religion,
prominent business and professional men, journalists, “real estate” men,
hosts and hostesses in whose homes he was graciously received, heads of
Emigration Departments, leading officials of the great transcontinental
railways, all contributed to his accumulating stock of information; and,
needless to say, he lost no opportunity of seeing things for himself and
forming his own judgments. In his railway journeys, amounting to 10,000
miles, he fraternised with the commercial travellers on the trains, and
from them, and their discussions and comparison of notes among
themselves, he picked up a vast amount of invaluable information as to
the development, the trading methods, and the prospects of the country.
It has been a long business digesting and reducing the material to
order, but the author hopes that the book will prove helpful to those
seeking a career in a land of illimitable possibilities, and to the
increasing number of people at home who are tempted to invest money in
Canadian undertakings. He is specially concerned