It is, by the way, a curious feature of the country that it dispenses with small payments. A box of matches, a newspaper, a tram ride—for each of these, five cents is the charge. A bronze coinage exists, but it can hardly be said to be used; indeed, in the west, shopkeepers refuse to accept it. The only thing you can buy for two cents, so far as my experience goes, is a postage stamp of that value. But note the happy significance of this disdain of coppers. Money is a utility constantly accessible to all classes in Canada, every form of manual and mental labour yielding in that country an easy margin beyond the living wage: wherein lies the difference between Great Britain on one side of the Atlantic and Greater Britain on the other—between the small country at the zenith of its development and the large country that offers ever-widening opportunities to industrious humanity. Of what the Dominion is, and of what it will become, I have attempted to afford some glimpses in this book, which haply may assist in stimulating young Britons to cross the sea and enter into their inheritance. And with Canada’s expansion we may dream of the day when our Empire, grown strongest on the North-American continent, shall join with the sister democracy of the United States in leading the world to universal peace. INDEX A Acadia, settlement in, 12 Agricultural pests, 261 —— possibilities in the North West, 134 —— produce of Saskatchewan, 195 —— prospects in Northern Alberta, 223 —— —— in Northern Saskatchewan, 195 Agriculture, height above sea level, its relation to, 39 Aix la Chapelle, treaty of, 12 Alberta, 222 ——, coal in, 177, 187 ——, gold in, 178 ——, undeveloped state of, 133 Alaska, coal in, 188 Angling, Quebec’s famous, waters, 43 Animal life in Northern Saskatchewan, 201 —— —— in the Great North Lands, 227 —— —— on the prairie, 260 Antimony, where found, 179 Appalachian region, minerals of the, 181 Arsenic, where found, 179 Asbestos, discovery of, 34 ——, location of quarries, 179 ——, value of annual output, 42 Ashwapmuchuan river, experiences on, 38 Assiniboine, 236 Athabasca river, richness in bitumen, 186 ——, salt deposits in, 186