Wild flowers, abundant in the Yukon, 235. Williams-Taylor, Sir Frederick, interview with, on Canadian banking, 73. Winnipeg, a fast-growing city, 148 _et seq._; its importance in the fur trade, 166. Winter sports in Quebec, 50. Wireless telegraph, fisheries of Nova Scotia controlled by, 36. Wolfe, General, captures Quebec from the French, 43. Women, opportunities for, in Canada, 192. Yellowhead Pass, railway line through, 217. Yukon Gold Company, dividends paid by, 269. Yukon River, a trip on the, 241. Yukon Territory, by motor car through the, 232. [Illustration: (Map of Canada)] Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced. Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations. The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.