[Frontispiece: SALMON FISHING IN THE FAR WEST (MORICETOWN, BRITISH COLUMBIA)] CANADA THE SPELLBINDER BY LILIAN WHITING WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR AND MONOTONE LONDON & TORONTO J. M. DENT & SONS LTD. MCMXVII _All rights reserved_ TO CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS whose foresight and energy, whose courage and genius lifted Canada's pioneer railway to a very high level of service and success; extended its operations from the Atlantic to the Pacific; opened thousands of miles of new scenic beauties and prepared a region which will ere long become a vital centre of population and strength to the British Empire; and whose passing to the larger and more significant activities of "the life more abundant" (by the tragic wreck of the s.s. _Titanic_, April 15, 1912) has left an unforgettable breach in the official family of the Grand Trunk System, an irreparable loss to his associates, to whom he was a beloved, constant, and forceful inspiration--this effort to interpret something of the romantic charm and richness of the resources of the Dominion is inscribed by LILIAN WHITING. "The shadow of his loss drew like eclipse Darkening the world. We have lost him; he is gone; We know him now; all narrow jealousies Are silent; and we see him as he moved, How modest, kindly, all-accomplished, wise, With what sublime repression of himself." TENNYSON. CONTENTS CHAP. I. The Creative Forces of Canada II. Quebec and the Picturesque Maritime Region III. Montreal and Ottawa IV. Toronto the Beautiful V. The Canadian Summer Resorts VI. Cobalt and the Silver Mines VII. Winnipeg and Edmonton VIII. On the Grand Trunk Pacific IX. Prince Rupert and Alaska X. Prince Rupert to Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, and the Golden Gate XI. Canada in the Panama-Pacific Exposition XII. Canadian Poets and Poetry XIII. The Call of the Canadian West Index List Of Illustrations Salmon Fishing in the Far West (Moricetown, British Columbia) .... Coloured Frontispiece Falls on Grand Forks River Cape Santé (Quebec), St. Lawrence River Sunset on Canyon Lake A Canoeing Party, Ontario Dufferin Terrace, Quebec, from the Citadel Harbour of St. John, New Brunswick Interior of Notre Dame, Montreal Montreal City Ottawa--Showing the Parliament Buildings and Château Laurier The Bigwin Inn, Lake-of-Bays, Ontario Sir Arthur and Lady Conan Doyle and Party View in Jasper Park Cobalt, Ontario Union Station and Fort Garry Hotel, Winnipeg Mount Edith Cavell and Cavell Lake Charles Melville Hays Hudson Bay Mountain and Lake Kathlyn, Bulkley Valley Indian Totem Pole, Alaska Junction of Skeena and Bulkley Rivers, British Columbia Indians spearing Salmon in Bulkley Cañon Prince Rupert, British Columbia Pure Bred Jerseys, Western Canada Mount Robson, British Columbia Looking towards Mount Munn from the Valley of Flowers Bulkley Gate (150 feet high), Bulkley River