Fort Smith, capital of the Northwest Territories, 203. Fort Vermillion, last herd of wild wood buffalo reported near, 202. Fort William, the great wheat centre, 135, 141. Fox, Black, price of fur declining since advent of fur farming, 173. Fox farms on Prince Edward Island, 40; near Indian Lorette, Quebec, 44. Fraser River, gold discoveries on, the first in British Columbia, 223. Freighters, Lake Superior, 146. French, dispute British claims to Newfoundland fisheries, 14; attempts to hold Nova Scotia, 15; driven from Cape Breton Island, 39. French, the language of Quebec, 49. French Canada--Quebec, 42. French Catholicism, Quebec the American capital of, 57. Fruit growing in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, 224. Fundy, Bay of, the forty-foot tides of, 38. Fur, and the great organizations concerned in its marketing, 166 _et seq._ Gas, natural, at Swift Current, Saskatchewan, 180; at Medicine Hat and near Edmonton, 201. Gates, Swift-Water Bill, his great strike in the Klondike, 277; partnership with Jack London, 278; partnership with Joe Boyle, 282. Glace Bay, first transatlantic cable landed at, 39. Gold, but little found in Labrador, 11; production of, in the Porcupine district, 125; in the Kootenay country, 221; first discovery in British Columbia, on the Fraser River, 223; supply being exhausted in the Klondike, 250; the wonders of the Yukon, 266. Gouin reservoir, immense water-power development in Quebec, 47. Government ownership of railroads, how brought about, 162. Governor-General, the, his position in the Canadian government, 84. Grain-carrying ships, of the Great Lakes, 146. Grain elevators, at Port Arthur and Fort William, 141 _et seq._ Grain sacks, manufacture of, a leading industry of Montreal, 63. Granby Company, miners and smelters of copper in British Columbia, 222. Grand Banks, the cod fishing grounds, 4, 19. Grand Forks, British Columbia, smelter closed down after a record production, 222. Grand Trunk railway, growth of, in Canada, 162. Grande Prairie, largest town in the Peace River Valley, 202. Great Divide, crossing the, 213. Great Slave Lake, on the route to the new oil fields, 204. Grenfell, Dr., sailors’ mission of, at St. John’s, 8. Gulf Stream, its influence on Newfoundland, 4, 5. Halibut, large production of the British Columbia fisheries, 230. Halifax, chief city and capital of Nova Scotia, 31. Halifax explosion, one of the greatest ever known, 33. Hamilton, Ontario, prosperity due to cheap electric power from Niagara, 117. Hayward, Edward, his murder near Lesser Slave Lake, and the running down of his murderer, 295. Hematite ore, in the Kootenay country, 221. Hidden Creek copper mines, largest in British Columbia, 223. Hill, James J., prediction of Canada’s future population, 189.