CONTENTS

PAGE
[List of Illustrations] [vii]
[Publisher’s Foreword][xi]
[Introduction][xiii]
CHAPTER PAGE
[I][Nova Scotia][1]
[II][Barrels][9]
[III][’Longshoremen][15]
[IV][Sea-Coast Homes of the Maritime Provinces][21]
[V][Low Tide in the Bay of Fundy][29]
[VI][Cape Breton][35]
[VII][Newfoundland][41]
[VIII][Labrador][49]
[IX][Saint Pierre et Miquelon][57]
[X][Quebec][65]
[XI][Les Iles De Madeleine “The Necklace”][75]
[XII][Percé][85]
[XIII][Wayside Crosses and Garden Shrines][93]
[XIV][Saint Anne L’Eglise][101]
[XV][M. Jobin][109]
[XVI][Romance of the Two-Wheeled Cart][121]
[XVII][Bubble, Bubble, Bubble][131]
[XVIII][Woodcarving][137]
[XIX][Indian Lorette][145]
[XX][The Abenaki Basket-Makers][153]
[XXI][“To Market, To Market”][163]
[XXII][Ontario][169]
[XXIII][Ontario Continued][175]
[XXIV][The Prairie][183]
[XXV][Romance Clings to the Skirts of Winnipeg][189]
[XXVI][Mine Host—The Mennonite][199]
[XXVII][The Pas: Gateway of the Great Northland][207]
[XXVIII][British Columbia][215]
[XXIX][The Doukhobors: a Community Race in Canada][223]
[XXX][Doukhobors: a Community Race—Continued][231]
[XXXI][Steveston][237]
[XXXII][The Indians of Alert Bay][243]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[Her Daily Portion][4]
[“How’s Fish?”] [5]
[Interior of an Apple-Barrel Cooperage in the Valley of the Gaspereau][12]
[In the Orchard][13]
[Tarring the Boat][18]
[A Nonogenarian Grandfather Placidly Catching up the Meshes of an Old Net][19]
[Within Sight of Home, Sambro, Nova Scotia][24]
[Door-way of the Lighthouse-keeper’s Home at Cape Sharp, Nova Scotia][25]
[In the Raquette, Digby, Nova Scotia][32]
[The Bay of Fundy is the Greatest Natural Drydock in the World][33]
[On the “Gallery”][38]
[Boyhood Dreams of the Day when “their Turn Will Come”][39]
[Fit Subject for a Millet][40]
[Dusk, South Bay, Ingonish][41]
[Belleoram][44]
[Path End][45]
[The Water-Carrier][48]
[Knitting][49]
[Hearty at Eighty][52]
[An Eskimo Grandmother][53]
[Nearing the End][60]
[An Island-woman of Saint Pierre et Miquelon][61]
[The Rag Mat][68]
[Spinning][69]
[Tadousac has Lost None of its Scenic Beauty][72]
[An Old Trading-Post at Baie St. Paul][73]
[The Wool for the Homemade Looms is Grown on the Sheep Grazing on the Slopes of Les Demoiselles][76]
[Seumas O’Brien, Author and Sculptor][77]
[The Sampler][80]
[The Lassie with Breton Cap][81]
[At Percé on the Gaspé Coast][88]
[A Little Angler][89]
[La Croix, the Age-old Milestone of the Quebec Highway][96]
[La Calvaire][97]
[In a Convent Garden][104]
[Saint Anne de Beaupré! Saint Anne L’Eglise! The Capital of the Faith—the Place of the Miracle][105]
[M. Louis Jobin in his Work Shop][112]
[Many of the Seats in these Tiny Carts are built up so that the Driver Sits above his “Horse”][124]
[Bad Roads, or no Roads at all never Betray the Ox into the Ditch][125]
[A Wayside Pot][134]
[Call of the Sea][140]
[The Figure on the Bow][141]
[Family Graves][148]
[The Snowshoe][149]
[The Twickenham of Canada][156]
[“Pour Madame’s Boudoir”][157]
[Stepping Stones][164]
[The Flower of St. Roch’s][165]
[An Old Ontario Homestead][172]
[Ontario, a Land of Campers and Camp-Fires][173]
[View from His Britannic Majesty, George III’s Chapel to the Mohawks, near Brantford][176]
[Fort Mississauga, Niagara-on-the-Lake][177]
[Home of Alexander Graham Bell][180]
[On the Canal][181]
[Canada, “the Bread-Mother” of the World][184]
[Steady, There!][185]
[“The Stooker,” as the Prairie Calls Him][188]
[At the Window][192]
[“... And There in the Cucumber Field is Old Kitty”][193]
[A “Knight of the Field” Defending the Wheat][196]
[Foot Bridge to Trappist Monastery, Saint Norbert][197]
[Curing a Pelt, which, Sooner or Later, Graces the Shoulders of Some Lady of the Land][200]
[On the Girls’ Side][201]
[Kaslo After Rain][208]
[Mountain Goats, Snowflakes Against the Blue Sky][209]
[A Madonna of the Kootenays][216]
[Drawing Water from the Columbia][217]
[In a Community Door Yard][224]
[Doukhobor Women Winnowing][225]
[Domesticity][228]
[Pulling Flax][230]
[Washing Flax in the Columbia][231]
[Close of the Season][236]
[Chrysanthemums a-bloom by a Steveston Doorway][237]
[The Family Tree of the Pacific Coast Indians][248]
[Spirit of the Untamed][249]

PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD

We are proud to announce what we think will come to be regarded as a really outstanding book of travel. We think it fitting that the first important book in this category which we have published should treat of our own country.