3. Give your hired help, and the members of your own family, an interest in the farm; whether it be a quarter section of land or a setting of eggs. Get them interested.
4. Work with and for your neighbours. Coöperation is the A B C of success. Always lend a hand to those in need, especially newcomers, and you will be repaid a hundredfold. Above all, value the good-will of your neighbours.
5. Lastly, be a true Canadian all the time, for no other country on earth will appreciate it so much or give so much in return.
CHAPTER XXVI
EDMONTON—THE GATEWAY TO THE NORTHWEST
Come with me to Edmonton, the capital and second largest city of Alberta. It is built on high bluffs on both sides of the Saskatchewan River, and we can see standing out against the landscape the great steel girders of the Canadian Pacific “high level” bridge, which joins the north and south sections of the city. Edmonton has between sixty-five and seventy thousand people. It is noted for its factories and wholesale houses and as a distributing point for the Northwest. There are several meat packing houses here, and the city’s creameries supply forty per cent. of the entire output of butter in the province. It owns its own street railway, and its water, light, power, and telephone systems. It is an important educational centre, and in the University of Alberta has the farthest north college on the continent. It has eight hundred acres of parks and golf links belonging to the municipality.
The city is not far from the site of a Hudson’s Bay Company fort built in 1795. Near by was a trading post of the Northwest Fur Company, its one time rival. When, in 1821, the two companies were amalgamated, a new fort was erected. This was called Edmonton, which was the name of the birthplace of the Hudson’s Bay official in charge. You remember how the English town figures in John Gilpin’s famous ride:
To-morrow is our wedding day,
And we will then repair
Unto the Bell at Edmonton
All in a chaise and pair.