B Bad Lake, plunder and bloodshed at, 24 Banff, 256 Barley, most suitable kinds, 88 Barr colonists and the Government, 159 —— colony, the, 147 Battleford, 148 Bird-life on the prairie, 260 Birds of Northern Saskatchewan, 203 Bitumen deposits in Athabasca, 186 Blackfeet Indians, beliefs of, 205 —— ——, teaching the children of, 206 —— ——, the, a spiritual awakening among, 207 Booth, Mr. J. R., an interview with, 56 ——, ——, on manual labour, 72 ——, ——, some personal incidents, 62 Breaking the prairie, process of, 85 British capital in Canada, advice and a warning, 189 British Columbia, 256 —— ——, beauty of scenery, 256 British Columbia, coal in, 177, 188 —— ——, conditions of union, 110 —— ——, copper in, 178 —— ——, platinum in, 178 —— ——, extent of forests, 257 —— ——, fruit farming in, 259 —— ——, gold in, 174, 178 —— ——, gold-copper ores in, 178 —— ——, lead deposits in, 178 —— ——, mercury found in, 178 —— ——, salmon fisheries of, 242 —— ——, silver-lead mines of, 178 —— ——, undeveloped state of, 132 —— ——, value of minerals, 187 —— ——, wolfram deposits in, 179 —— —— and the Canadian Northern Railway, 234 Buffalo, exterminating the, 29 “Buffalo Bill,” 30 Business ethics, Canadian, 189 C Canada a century ago, 166 Canada-Atlantic Railway, early experiences of the, 70 Canada, discovery of diamonds in, 183 ——, division of, 14 ——, early history of, 5, 11 ——, mineral output of, 193 ——, mineral wealth of, 173 ——, mining richness of, 177 ——, population statistics, 4, 111 ——, railway extensions in, 131, 231 ——, struggles for, between England and France, 12 ——, unification of, 14 —— and the U.S.A. correspondence of mineral deposits, 180 —— ——, mineral values compared, 181 Canadian boundary defined, 13 Canadian National Exhibition, the, 82 —— Northern Railway, growth of the, 232 —— Pacific Railway, _see_ C.P.R. Canadians, characteristics of the, 261 ——, economic freedom of, 262 Canneries, labour conditions at, 251 ——, number of, on Fraser River 249 Canning, new method of, 251 —— industry, inception of, 247 Cannery, operations in a, 248, 250 Calgary, 113 ——, irrigation at, 125 Castlegar, 106 Cattle-raising in Manitoba, success of, 93 ——, suitability of Northern Saskatchewan for, 201 Cazakoff, Mr. M. W., on the Dukhobors, 106 Cereal crops, perfection of, in Northern Alberta, 223 —— produce of Saskatchewan, 195 Champlain, Samuel de, 12 Charles II., interest of, in Hudson Bay, 15 Chaudière Falls, harnessing the, 60 Chesterfield, 143 Chibougamau district, mineral richness of, 34 Chief Pie-a-Pot, eviction of, 120 Chinese labour in the Canneries, 251 Christianity among the Red Indians, 206 Chromite mines, location of 179 Church Missionary Society, work of the, among Red Indians, 204 Churchill, 138 —— river district, agricultural experiences in, 196 Churchill district, fertility of, 135 Climate, excellence of Northern, for agricultural operations, 140