Canada, as it is
Book details
- Title
- Canada, as it is
- Author
- Charles William Jefferys
- Publication year listed
- 1905
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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- Free online reader; no registration required
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About this book
Canada, as it is
Author: Fraser, John Foster (Sir), 1868-1936. (author)
Year: 1905
Fraser, John Foster (Sir): 1868-1936. English journalist and traveller; visited Canada in 1903 and 1904 ( Who was who , 1929-1940). // Also published, London: Cassell & Co., 1908 (viii, 303p.); London & Toronto: Cassell, 1909 (viii, 303p.); new edition, London & New York: Cassell & Co., 1911 (xii, 303, [1]p.). The 1911 edition has four colour plates by Charles William Jefferys (including one of a cattle round-up on an Alberta ranch) and an introduction by Lord Strathcona. A journalist's overview, with an emphasis on questions of immigration, settlement, and preserving the British connection. Includes text on the "wheat funnel," Winnipeg, settlement on the prairies, Saskatchewan, and boom lands in Alberta, as well as on other regions of Canada.