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THE DAILY EXAMINER.
| JULY 16 1887. NOTES
Ofa Trip to the NorthWest and British €olumbia.
| The 14th July was devoted to a trip over jthe Manitoba Southwestern Railway which is a branch of the C.P. R. This road runs ehrough Southern and Southwestern Mani- |toba, and serves a beautiful country. Here '1 saw my first prairie--a strange and novel ‘sight. Imagine, yourself, wherever yougo, the centre of a boundless plain, perfectly ‘level, covered with short wavy grass, and ‘stretching out to meet the horizon on every lside. Not a tree or bush of any kind
Nothing but
to be seen. grass and sky as far as the eye can reach. And _ this |
‘for miles, and you have a prairie. It makes one think of the ocean in its buund-
lessness, and the mind easily brings itself to fancy that the occasional settlers’ house far off against the sky is a ship making its way across the waters.
Our journey, however, was not all over prairie, for the road runs through the Pembina Valley and there is a good deal of moderate hill and dale in places.
Shortly after leaving Winnipeg we cross- ed a ditch called the *‘ Stinking River ’’— |a most appropriate name, 1 should judge. ‘Now and then one passes what are called throughout the Northwest, ‘* Sloughs,” \unifurmerly pronounced **Shies.” These ‘are large ponds of marches, land locked, i yet not large enough to be called lakes, | Occasionally one sees small copses, which are always called ‘‘ bluffs” in this country, ilike oases in the desert, though that is not la good simile, for the praine here is any- ‘ching but a desert. On the contrary, it |looks equal to any field, and the crops we |passed appeared, despite the dry weather, ‘to be in excellent condition. The copses ‘are grateful as relieving the eye, which, if ‘not accustomed to the sight, soon tires of ithe monotony of the open prairie.
The track of the Southwestern is finish- ied to Borssevain, 185 miles from Winnipeg, ‘and we made the journey and return, in- ‘eluding all stops, 18 about 16 hours.
The whole trip partook of the nature of a 'triuumphal progress. At Morden, Manitoba, Pilot Mound, Clearwater, Cartwright, 'Killarney and Boissevain, arches were erected and addresses of welcome were pre- sented to the Premier. All these ad- dresses were remarkably well written. {Boissevain, then the end of the track, is ‘quite a thriving little place, though scarcely ‘tour months old. Here we met among others, a stalwart, brown, handsome young man named Thompson who is engaged in farming. Heis a nephew of Sir Bartle Frere.
The Lakes of Killarney are rather pretty. Near Clearwater is the only piece of trestle on the rvad, which is very level.
My opinion is that the country through which this road runs is second to none in | Canada, and I venture to predict that large }tuwns will one day arise and flourish where these scattered haniets are now seen.
Here { may notice the fact that the C. P. R. are about introducing the 24-hour sys- tem of time, Theday begins at midnight and goes on to midday, which is 12 o’clock as of old. Then, instead of beginuing the numbers anew, we go right on: 1 p, m. is 13 o'clock, 3 p. m. 15 o'clock, 6 p. m. 18 o'clock, 9 p. m. 21 o'clock, and midnight is 24 o’clock. Itiswhen one travels long distances that the advantages of standard time are made apparent. Instead of chang- ing our watches constantly and tien being always wrong, we do so every 15 degrees, and then make the change of exactly one hour. When leaving Ottawa cur time was that of the 75th meridian—the time of every city between Chicago and Quebec. At Port Arthur we put our watches on an hour. We shall put them on another hour at Broadview, and still again at Donald, B. C. In regard both to the 24 o’cluck sys- tem and that of standard time, Mr. San- ford Fleming is to be congratulated.
We left Winnipeg for Regina by special train on the morning of the 16th July, accompanied by Mr. Egan, the Superinten- dent of the C. P. R., trom Port Arthur to Donald. We made a very fast run, reach- ing Regina shortly before 18 o’clock-—-356 miles in ten hours, including several stops.
Portage la Prairie, 56 miles west of Winnipeg, is a thriving town, surrounded by a beautiful farming country. That por- tion of it extending for a radius of ten miles around the town is perhaps the very choicest farming land in Manitoba, and that is saying a great deal. Here, as every- where else in the Northwest, are to be seen Ogilvie’s elevators. Their numbers run into the thirties, so I judge he must be doing a good business.
At Carbery, 105 miles west of Winnipeg, an address was presented, as also at Virden.
srandon is a thriving community, having a pupulation of close on 2,500. As we sur- veyed it from the station my friend at my elbow told me how, five years ago, he camped one evening on the spot where the town now stands, then the virgin prairie.
At Moosomin, which is the tirst station west of the Province of Manitoba, the long continued dry weather became very apparent. Up to this point, everything looked well, though lacking rain, but at Moosumin and. west we be began to speak of the drought. We passed the celebrated
3ell farm at 40 miles an hour. I am told the crops are almost a total failure through, lack of muisture.
We arrived at Regina about 6 p. m., and
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Geceral O missive Merchants, were received by an enthusiastic crowd. Aj
udicrous mistake occurred at the outset. The Premier did not show himself immed:- ately the train stopped, and the impatient
ister, and cheered him lustily, which greet- ing Ben, at my suggestion, suitably acknow-
leyed, Thesb little mistakes bling rvvti-
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fied, we proceeded to Government House, where our party was cordially we comed by the LieutenantGovernorand Mrs. Dewdney.
Government House is very unlike the idea suggested by the name. Placed there four years ago, it was originally a Chicago portable house, similar to those used for ofticers’ quarters by the Mounted Police—a one story summer house. It has been added to considerably, but it still preserves its modest character. Inside, however, one” is struck by the evidence of what a lady’s taste can effect. Everything is most comfortable —the drawing room very pret- tily arranged, and at the Governor's hospi- table board it is difficult to realize the tact that one is in the heart of that immense territory which but yesterday was the home of the Indian and the buffalo,
Regina is situated on a boundless plain that meets the sky in every direction. It is apparently a thriving place, and is des- tined, no doubt, to become an important distributing point. The farmers, however, were in very low spirits, owing to the long continued drought. Everything was suf- fering greatly therefrom. The grass on the prairie was shrivelled up and the ground cracked in «very direction by the intense heat. They had had no rain since May. This, no doubt, was very hard, especially as the spring gave promise of an abundant yieid.*
About two miles from the town flows the ‘Pile of Bones’ Creek—in Indian, ** Was- cana ’’—which by the way would have been a much prettier ~ame for Regina than the Latin one it bear., but the matter was left to the Queen, and Her Majesty fixed upon Regina. Wascana is more in “harmony with Assinaboia, which latter, as Mr. Nicholas Flood Davin finely says, reminds one of the rolling Greek of Homer.
Near the Creek is the Police Barracks, and at no great distance on the side towards the tuwn is Government House. Here the town was originally to have been, but the Government and the C, P. R, had some diflerence of opinion on the subject. The upshot was that the railway people built the station two miles further on; and where the station was, there of course the town grewup. To my mind the iown should certainly be where the Barracks and Government House are. It is now in a depression of the prairie, which, though comparatively slight, is suflicient to make the place very wet in spring and fall. The town suffers, too, from being so long drawn out—first, the station, then the town, then about a mile further on the Indian oftices and the Council Chamber (a very nice building), then another mile Government House, and then the Barracks beyond that again.
The day after our arrival the civic and other addresses were presented to the Premier in the Town Hall, which was nicely decorated with flags and green boughs—where they got the boughs puzzled me, for there was not a vestige of a tree in sight. I found out afterwards that there is a little light growth of timber some ten miles off.
This was followed by a military review of the Mounted Police at the Barracks. Here 1 saw the cell in which Riel was contined, and the spot where he was executed ; a portion of the gallows was. still standing. No two opinions, I may say, exist any- where in this country as to the justice of his fate. Several settlers told me of the térrible suspense they suffered during the outbreak, fearing an attack from the Indians at any moment. Among other messages Riel sent tothe Indiars was an assurance that withthe extirpation of the white men the buffalo would return to the country, and thus the old condition of things would be restored.
I also saw confined in the police cells ‘‘Dressy Man,” a wizened up looking old Cree Indian. He is said to have been im- plicated in the Frog Lake massacre, and is believed to be the man who mutilated the body of Policeman Cowan. The old gen- tleman, who maintained, throughout, a de- precating attitude, persisted in wearing a moth-eaten fur cap drawn down over bis ears, though it was the height of summer, and the thermometer stood at 90. He made many signs expressive of the esteem in which he held us, which, I am _ afraid, were prompted by a wish for freedom rather than by any inherent regard for us.
The next day was Sunday and I drove into town to church. The Catholic Church is a tiny one, not yet furnished, and with- out an organ. It was well filled with a devout congregation. Mass was said by the Reverend Father Graton, who is the priest in charge.
Driving home we meta band of Sioux Indians from the American side journey- iug quietly along. The men were not of the party, being, | was told at some dis- tance, hunting, or perhaps looking for a
crowd mistovk bis valet for the First Min-|
suitable camping ground. There were some ten or a dozen old Red River carts ‘(in the structure of which vehicles there is not a particle of iron) laden with cooking | utensils, camp furniture, boughs, &., with here and there a papoose sticking out. At the head of each horse walked a squaw, geverally provided with a pole. Accom- panying the procession were several woltish looking dogs. The whole cavalcade pre- sented a dreary spectacle.
I dined at the ofticers mess, and there met Superintendent Jarvis, a son of the late Chief Justice of P. E. Island, who is regarded asa first rate officer ard a rattling good fellow.
In his company I had the pleasure of @ drive over the prairie. Iwas rather sur- | prised at the size of the Pile of Bones |Creck. I remember very well that in 1882 when the site of Regina was determined upon, the chief objection urged against the ‘present place was that there would not be nearly enough water to supply a town. But L an told there is now ample provis- lion for 30,000 people, which is a greater
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{number than Regina will be likely to con- {tain for some time. — “This year (1887) lem told that, thanks toebun- ' dant rains, the grass on the prairie near Regina jand westward is full three feet high, and all Other vegetatiun relatively lusurjant,
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