CHAPTER XXIV.
THE PRAIRIE.
CANADA, “THE BREAD-MOTHER OF THE WORLD”.
STEADY, THERE!
HE Canadian Prairie may be compared to a vast stage set through the length of three entire provinces for the enactment of one great epic entitled “WHEAT”.
Wheat is the greatest piece of realism staged in Canada. And its companion-piece, in point of size and importance, is “Fish”—The Maritime. Taken together they seem to point to Canada as the living parable of “the loaves and the fishes.” The ovens of Quebec as well as the ovens of all the other Provinces look to the Prairies for fulfilment.