INDEX
Adventures, life full of them, [2].
Agriculture, [54];
ranching, [127];
mixed farming, [129];
fruit, [164];
irrigation, [169];
bees, [170];
improving livestock, [171], [177];
“We have to Learn,” [174];
enormous production, [178];
need of co-operation, [178], [183];
“semi-tropical,” [179];
the small farmer, [181];
grain growing and dairying, [183], [191].
Air patrol, [166].
Animal and plant life: pre-historic, [4];
modern, [14], [15], [131], [197];
beaver, [35];
his achievements and value, [35], [192], [193];
buffalo, [18], [20], [45], [48], [54], [129];
wholesale slaughter, [61];
collecting his bones, [127];
present increase, [192];
coyote and antelope, [17], [131];
bred for wool, [72];
maize [11];
trees, [140];
far north, [188].
Arctic Ocean: Hearne’s arrival, [47];
Mackenzie’s, [50].
British brotherhood of nations, [28], [156], [200].
British Navy’s task, [160].
Climates, [169], [175], [179].
Coats, Capt., [47], [58], [85].
Columbia River, [50].
Coppermine River, [46].
Dominion formed, [88];
width North to South, [189].
Edmonton in 1846, [60];
Empires, British and United States, [156].
massacred by Indians, [48].
Exploration, Spanish and British, [25];
Norse, [26];
French, [26];
Cartier, Champlain, [26];
La Salle, [27];
Frobisher, Hudson, [28];
Radisson and Groseillers, [30];
Vérendrye, [41];
Kellsey, Hendry, [44];
Hearne, [46];
Mackenzie, [49];
Thompson, [50];
Fraser, [51];
Lewis and Clark, [51];
Franklin, [64];
McClure, [65];
Drake, Cook, [69];
Palliser, Hector, [84];
Amundsen, [66];
Stefansson, [188].
Fleming, Sir Sandford, [159].
fires, [161];
air patrol, [166].
Fort Carlton, [61].
Fort Chipewyan, [49].
Fort de la Corne, [45].
Fort Cumberland, [48].
Fort Pitt, [62].
Fort Rouge, [42].
Fort Vancouver, [72].
Fossils: giant lizards, [5];
trilobites, [7];
mammoth, [8];
horses, [19].
Freighting, [141].
French Cession of Canada to British, [27].
Fur trade, [26];
French monopoly, [32];
buffalo skins, [35];
beaver in fashion, [37];
scene at trading post, [39];
“Free Traders,” [41];
the traders’ life, [56];
fur farming, [192];
statistics, [193].
Gas, natural, [170].
Great Slave Lake, discovery, [48].
Hudson’s Bay, [28];
Company formed, [33];
its powers, [37];
French raids and competition, [40], [49];
traders sent up country, [44];
Scottish-Canadian rivals, [45];
North West Company formed, [49];
Companies at war, [52];
the rivals unite, [56];
Company’s rule extended to Pacific, [56];
Simpson’s journeys, [59];
Company and Indians, [85], [91];
Territory enters Dominion, [88];
Company continues, [151], [188].
Hudson Straits navigation, [57].
Indians, origin of, [9];
southward migration, [11];
industry and art, [11], [12], [21], [74];
baking and gardening, [12];
Mexican and Peruvian civilization, [12], [13];
the Six Nations, [13];
lacrosse, [13];
Algonquins, [14];
mound builders, [16];
a night raid, [16];
travoys, [20];
story telling, [22];
racing and betting, [63], [73];
slavery, [73];
Flat-heads, [74];
kindness and barbarity, [85].
Indian tribal fighting, [21], [23], [85];
Sioux and Cree, [31];
Saulteaux and Sioux, [61];
Blackfoot and Cree, [63], [87].
Indian treaties, [93];
refugees from United States, [95];
Sitting Bull, [96].
Indians and Métis, [99];
Indians farming, [139].
Kane, Paul: artist’s journey in 1846, [60].
King and president, [136].
Lake and river route to West, [59].
Liquor and Indians, [55].
Mackenzie River, [49], [189], [190].
Métis, the, [49];
a hospitable family, [133].
Migrations of men, [2], [9], [24], [148].
Minerals: coal, [7], [81], [167];
gold, etc., in B.C., [75], [161], [165];
potters’ clay, [171].
Missionaries: Evans prints in Cree, [86];
peacemaker Lacombe, [87].
Mississippi, [27];
discovery, [31].
Mountains, birth of, [7];
first sight of Rockies, [43];
an Alpine paradise, [165].
Mounted Police and frontier crime, [91];
force organized, [92];
Col. MacLeod’s reign of law, [93];
in the Arctic, [189].
Northern Territory and Islands: caribou pasture, [187];
reindeer, [188];
Government stations, [189];
wireless, [190].
North-west Passage, [26], [29];
Franklin’s last voyage, [64];
passage discovered, [66];
Amundsen gets through, [66];
Captain Cook’s attempt, [69].
Ogilby, John, his book, [36].
Pacific Coast: Mackenzie’s arrival, [50];
claims of Spain and United States, [70];
frontier agreement, [71];
early ranching, [72];
Kane’s visit in 1847, [72];
Coast Indian ways, [73];
colony under company, [75];
gold rush, [75];
company rule ended, [76];
Cariboo trail, [77];
Judge Begbie keeps order, [79];
Province of British Columbia formed, enters Dominion, [81];
United States and San Juan Island, [81];
the Province to-day, [159].
Pemmican, [19];
war, [54].
Politics: the art of living together, [153].
Portage la Prairie, [42].
Prairie primeval, [14];
first inhabitants, [16];
the prairie in 1905, [129];
to-day, [167].
Provinces formed: Manitoba, [90];
British Columbia, [81];
Alberta and Saskatchewan, [151];
Dimensions, [180].
Railway, Transcontinental, proposed, [84];
its necessity, [117];
built by Canadian Pacific Co., [120];
last spike driven, [122];
irrigation, [169];
Winnipeg yards, [184].
Red River rising of 1870, [89].
Riel rebellion of 1885, [98];
Duck Lake fight, [99];
Frog Lake massacre, [101];
Big Bear and Fort Pitt, [102];
army from the East, [103];
Cutknife Hill, [106];
Fish Creek, [111];
Batoche, [112];
Indian chiefs’ surrender, [112];
battlefield twenty years after, [139].
Rupert’s Land, [38];
enters Dominion, [88].
Saskatchewan rivers discovered, [43].
Saskatoon, [142].
Schools and colleges, [180], [185], [195].
Settlement: Lord Selkirk’s pioneers, [53], [85];
door opened by railway, [124];
Eastern Canadians, [124], [132], [140], [148];
British newcomers, [126], [133], [141], [149], [164];
from United States, [130], [135], [147], [152];
French-Canadians, [138];
a pioneer family in the North, [161];
“The land is Canada’s,” [176];
new plans needed, [181];
homesteading, [191];
Canada and “New Canadians,” [195];
racial blending, [198].
Shipping, [160].
Territorial Government, [153].
Thompson River, [49].
Unicorn, [36].
Victoria, [159];
observatory, [159].
War, the, [164].
Western Canada: size and variety, [3], [158], [180];
pre-historic state, [4];
ignorance of its capacity, [83];
S. J. Dawson finds a “Paradise of Fertility,” [83];
the West in 1905, [128];
Central Alberta, [129];
hospitality, [135];
a stopping place, [147];
the country now, [158];
simple and high living, [163];
better houses, [172];
telephones, [172];
tree planting, [173];
nomadic instinct survives, [174];
automobiles, [177];
“Extravagance,” [177];
recreation, [185];
national defence, [185];
music, [197];
“The Spirit of the West,” [201].
White men reach America, [23].
Winnipeg: Fort Rouge founded, [42];
Wireless, [166].
Yukon, [190].
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