

Transcribed from the 1886 T. Fisher Unwin edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

                             NOTE TO PAGE 56.

Sir Charles Tupper tells me that I was totally misinformed.  I am sorry
to have been led astray, and have pleasure in making the correction,
which was received, unfortunately, after the chapter had been worked off.

  [Picture: Dr. Barnardo’s Distributing Home for Children, Peterborough,
                                 Ontario]





                                 PICTURES
                                    OF
                              CANADIAN LIFE


                                * * * * *

                      A Record of Actual Experiences

                                * * * * *

                                    BY
                             J. EWING RITCHIE

           AUTHOR OF ‘EAST ANGLIA,’ ‘BRITISH SENATORS,’ ‘ON THE
                TRACK OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS,’ ETC., ETC.

                                * * * * *

                       _WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS_

                                * * * * *

                                  London
                             T. FISHER UNWIN
                          26, PATERNOSTER SQUARE
                                  1886.




CONTENTS.

CHAPTER                                                           PAGE
        I.  Introductory.—Canadian Territory and                     1
            Population
       II.  Off With The Emigrants—The Voyage Out—The               16
            ‘Sarnia’—The Cod-Fishery
      III.  Arrival at Quebec                                       33
       IV.  At Montreal, and on to Ottawa—Interviewing and          45
            Interviewed
        V.  Toronto—The Town—The People—Canadian                    74
            Authors—The Leader of the Opposition
       VI.  Off to the North-West—Niagara—Lake                     104
            Superior—The Canadian Pacific Railway—At
            Winnipeg
      VII.  Life on the Prairie                                    148
     VIII.  Amongst the Cow-Boys                                   174
       IX.  In the Rockies—Holt City—Life in the Camp—A            194
            Rough Ride—The Kicking Horse Lake—British
            Columbia
        X.  Dangers of the Rockies—Prairie Fires—The               225
            Return—Port Arthur—Emigrants
       XI.  Back to England—Canadian Hospitality—The               245
            ‘Assyrian Monarch’—Home
      XII.  Colonization in Canada                                 255

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

                                                                  PAGE
Dr. Barnardo’s Distributing Home for Children,          _Frontispiece_
Peterborough, Ontario