The Book of the West: The story of western Canada, its birth and early adventures, its youthful combats, its peaceful settlement, its great transformation, and its present waysKennedy, Howard Angus
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The Book of the West: The story of western Canada, its birth and early adventures, its youthful combats, its peaceful settlement, its great transformation, and its present ways
Kennedy, Howard Angus
Northwest, Canadian
Northern Territory and Islands: caribou pasture, 187;
reindeer, 188;
Government stations, 189;
wireless, 190.
North-west Passage, 26, 29;
Franklin’s last voyage, 64;
passage discovered, 66;
Amundsen gets through, 66;
Captain Cook’s attempt, 69.
Ogilby, John, his book, 36.
Pacific Coast: Mackenzie’s arrival, 50;
Hudson’s Bay Co., 56, 71;
claims of Spain and United States, 70;
frontier agreement, 71;
early ranching, 72;
Kane’s visit in 1847, 72;
Coast Indian ways, 73;
colony under company, 75;
gold rush, 75;
company rule ended, 76;
Cariboo trail, 77;
Judge Begbie keeps order, 79;
Province of British Columbia formed, enters Dominion, 81;
United States and San Juan Island, 81;
the Province to-day, 159.
Peace River, 189, 191.
Pemmican, 19;
war, 54.
Politics: the art of living together, 153.
Portage la Prairie, 42.
Prairie primeval, 14;
first inhabitants, 16;
the prairie in 1905, 129;
to-day, 167.
Prince Rupert, 33, 161.
Provinces formed: Manitoba, 90;
British Columbia, 81;
Alberta and Saskatchewan, 151;
Dimensions, 180.
Railway, Transcontinental, proposed, 84;
its necessity, 117;
built by Canadian Pacific Co., 120;
last spike driven, 122;
irrigation, 169;
C.N.R., 60, 161, 172;
Winnipeg yards, 184.
Regina, 127, 171.
Red River rising of 1870, 89.
Riel rebellion of 1885, 98;
Duck Lake fight, 99;
Frog Lake massacre, 101;
Big Bear and Fort Pitt, 102;
army from the East, 103;
Cutknife Hill, 106;
Fish Creek, 111;
Batoche, 112;
Indian chiefs’ surrender, 112;
battlefield twenty years after, 139.
Rupert’s Land, 38;
enters Dominion, 88.
Saskatchewan rivers discovered, 43.
Saskatoon, 142.
Schools and colleges, 180, 185, 195.
Settlement: Lord Selkirk’s pioneers, 53, 85;
door opened by railway, 124;
Eastern Canadians, 124, 132, 140, 148;
British newcomers, 126, 133, 141, 149, 164;
from United States, 130, 135, 147, 152;
French-Canadians, 138;
Scandinavians, 142, 187;
Slavs, 142, 152, 194;
Doukhobors, 145, 165;
a pioneer family in the North, 161;
“The land is Canada’s,” 176;
new plans needed, 181;
homesteading, 191;
brush land, 192, 194;
Canada and “New Canadians,” 195;
racial blending, 198.
Shipping, 160.
Territorial Government, 153.
Thompson River, 49.
Trade, Oriental, 25, 160.
Travel, ways of, 20, 57;
in 1872, 159; 189.
Unicorn, 36.
Vancouver, 123, 160.
Victoria, 159;
observatory, 159.
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