Out in the Prairie Provinces, where new cities and towns are “rising like an exhalation,” there is plenty of summer and winter enjoyment, although, of course, many of the people are far too busy in laying the foundations of their future prosperity to be able to sacrifice much time to mere recreation. Prairie dwellers told me, however, that the winter is to them, as to the people of the Eastern Provinces, the playtime of the year. The harvest of the prairie has been got in. There is a slackening down of business until the spring. The people in the rising cities have more time at their disposal to foregather at all sorts of meetings for social enjoyment. The young man is a great institution of the prairie town. He goes out in his thousands from the Old Country; he crosses over from the United States. The Y.M.C.A.’s (which are run in Canada on the broadest and most progressive lines) cater for the young man. They and the churches, which appreciate the value of the young man and realise that he will not be content with purely religious meetings alone, cater generously for him. The Y.M.C.A.’s are splendid clubs provided with gymnasia, swimming baths, facilities for the playing of billiards, basket-ball, and other competitive recreations. Then football has solidly established itself in Canada, as cricket has done during the summer months, and the sportively inclined young man of Regina, Medicine Hat, or Calgary is as keen on playing or watching a good game as the young man in Old England, though I believe he does not allow his interest in such games to become so absorbing as to distract his attention from his business, in which he sees the means of forcing his way to the front in the new country of his settlement. The young man of the Prairie Provinces is a great camper-out in the summer and finds plenty of interest on the prairies, whether in watching the rapid growth of the harvests, in studying the varied flora (which is exquisitely beautiful), or in the Nimrod pursuit of wild birds and wild animals. For the bookish young man there are literary societies even in towns that are not a dozen years old, and it is a very “one-horse” prairie town indeed that does not possess a theatre and an opera house, while the picture palace is everywhere.