[20] The Canadian Pacific Railway has a special plan for providing for such settlers, by itself building houses and breaking land. It is a well-known fact in Western Canada that new emigrants from the old country find it much more difficult to get a start than do Americans or people from Eastern Canada. This fact was recently called to my attention, on a visit to Alberta, by an English farmer of several years' experience. [21] I am indebted for a number of the ideas and facts expressed in this paragraph to Recollections of an Indian Agent, Quar. Or. His. Soc., Vol. VIII, No. 1, March, 1907, pp. 12-18. [22] Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 1861, p. 160. [23] Id., 1862, p. 419. [24] Id., 1863, p. 52. [25] Id., 1861, p. 160. [26] Report Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1860, pp. 173-761. [27] Rpt. Com. Ind. Affairs, 1862, p. 397. [28] The Weekly Oregonian. Sept. 7, 1861. [29] San Francisco Daily Bulletin, July 24, 1862. [30] Recollections of an Indian Agent, Quar. Oregon His. Soc., Vol. VIII, No. 2, June, 1907, p. 108. [31] Report of Henry A. Webster. Rpt. Com. Ind. Af., 1862, p. 407. [32] T. W. Davenport. Recollections of an Indian Agent, Quar. Or. His. Soc., Vol. VIII. No. 2, June, 1907, p. 108. [33] Rpt. Com. Ind. Af., 1863, p. 459. [34] San Francisco Daily Bulletin, Jan. 28, 1864. [35] Rpt. Com. Ind. Af., 1860, p. 185. [36] Rpt. Com. Ind. Affairs, 1861, p. 159. [37] Rpt. Com. Ind. Af., 1862, pp. 400-401. [38] Recollections of an Indian Agent, Quar. Or. His. Soc., Vol. VIII, No. I, March 1907, p. 14. {See transcriber notes} [39] Recollections of an Indian Agent, Quar. Ore. His. Soc., Vol. VIII., No. 1, March, 1907, p. 14. [40] Id., p. 7. [41] 36 Cong., 1st sess., Sen. Doc. I, p. 802. [42] Recollections of an Indian Agent, Quar. Or. His. Soc., Vol. VIII, No 1, March, 1907, pp. 18-19. [43] Id. No. 2, June, 1907, p. 105. [44] Cf. on these points Id. No. I, pp. 4 & 5. [45] Rpt. Com. Ind. Af., 1860, p. 184; 1862, p. 263; 1863, pp. 52, 65, 82-84, 449-451, and 473; 1864, pp. 73-4, 85. [46] British Columbia Papers Connected with the Indian Land Question, Report of I. U. Powell concerning the Songish reserve, pp. 121-2. [47] Rpt. Com. Ind. Af., 1861, p. 77. [48] Recollections of an Indian Agent, Quar. Or., His. Soc., Vol. VIII., No. 2, June. 1907, pp. 127-8. [49] San Francisco Daily Bulletin. July 24, 1862. [50] 36 Cong., 1st Sess., Sen. Doc. 11, No. 2, p. 108. [51] Recollections of an Indian Agent, Quar., Or. His. Soc., Vol. VIII. No. 4, Dec., 1907, p. 355. [52] It should be carefully noted that this statement of policy has no reference to the Canadian policy. The two are clearly distinguishable.