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  ON CANADA'S FRONTIER

  Sketches

  OF HISTORY, SPORT, AND ADVENTURE AND OF THE INDIANS, MISSIONARIES
  FUR-TRADERS, AND NEWER SETTLERS OF WESTERN CANADA

  BY

  JULIAN RALPH

  ILLUSTRATED

  [Illustration]

  NEW YORK

  HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE

  1892




  Copyright, 1892, by Harper & Brothers.

  _All rights reserved_.




  TO

  THE PEOPLE OF CANADA

  THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR WHO, DURING MANY LONG
  JOURNEYS IN THE CANADIAN WEST WAS ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE TREATED WITH AN
  EXTREME FRIENDLINESS TO WHICH HE HERE TESTIFIES BUT WHICH HE CANNOT
  EASILY RETURN IN EQUAL MEASURE




  PREFACE


If all those into whose hands this book may fall were as well informed
upon the Dominion of Canada as are the people of the United States,
there would not be needed a word of explanation of the title of this
volume. Yet to those who might otherwise infer that what is here related
applies equally to all parts of Canada, it is necessary to explain that
the work deals solely with scenes and phases of life in the newer, and
mainly the western, parts of that country. The great English colony
which stirs the pages of more than two centuries of history has for its
capitals such proud and notable cities as Montreal, Quebec, Toronto,
Halifax, and