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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 — John Shaqi

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

Name: 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
Author: Kennedy, Howard Angus

Kennedy, Howard Angus

Northwest, Canadian

VIII. OUR FIRST AND LAST INDIAN WAR                                 98
           _Riel’s Second Revolt, 99. The Indian Peril, 99. Duck
        Lake Fight, 99. Battleford Besieged, 100. Frog Lake
        Massacre, 101. An Army from the East, 103. The Railway
        just in Time, 104. Relief of Battleford, 105. The Fight on
        Cutknife Hill, 106. Fish Creek, 111. Victory of Batoche,
        112. Surrender of the Chiefs, 112. The Hunt for Big Bear,
        114._

                              THE NEW TIMES

    IX. OPENING THE DOOR OF THE WEST                                 117
           _The Railway to the Pacific, 117. A National Necessity,
        118. How it was Got, 120. Difficulties of Construction,
        121. Finished in Five Years, 122._

     X. OUR FATHERS AND MOTHERS COME IN                              124
           _British Settlers in the East, 124. Their Children
        Colonize the West, 126. Immigrants Direct from Europe,
        126. Early Isolation, 126. King Steer and King Wheat, 127.
        Collecting Buffalo Bones, 127. The Ranching Era, 127._

    XI. RIDING THE PLAINS IN 1905                                    128
           _A Ride through Two New Provinces, 128. Calgary, 129.
        Livestock in the Park Lands, 129. Untouched Prairie, 129.
        “We are Canadians Now,” 130. Wild Life, 131. Antelope and
        Railway, 131. Thin Thread of Settlement, 132. Hospitable
        Métis, 133._
           _Turn the Key and Walk in, 135. A Man from Iowa, 135.
        Kings and Presidents, 136. Law and Order, 137.
        French-Canadians’ Return, 138. Revisiting a Battlefield,
        139. Indians Farming, 139. A Sylvan Home, 140._

   XII. LEARNING TO BE CANADIANS                                     141
           _Freighting, 141. The Blacksmith’s Wife, 141. Health in
        the Air, 142. Scandinavians, 142. “Who are the Slavs?”
        143. Small Beginnings, 143. A Spinning Bachelor, 143. A
        Doukhobor Village, 145. The Long Migration, 148. The
        Newcomer Learns, and Teaches, 149._

  XIII. THE TREE OF FREEDOM                                          151
           _Twin Provinces Born, 151. How to Cultivate the Tree of
        Freedom, 153. The Political Art of Living Together, 154.
        Loyalty to Union, 155. The Two Empires, 156._

   XIV. ON THE WINGS OF THE WEST                                     158
           _“Cultivating our Garden,” 158. Seeing the West from
        the Air, 159. Victoria, 159. Federal Observatory, 159.
        Ships, 160. What the British Navy Means, 160. Vancouver,
        160. Fish, Forest, and Mine, 161. A Pioneer Family, 162.
        “Simple Life and High Standard of Living,” 163. Fruit
        Valleys, 164. Westerners and the War, 164. Sea of
        Mountains, 165. Airplane, Wireless, and Forest Fires,
        166._

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