\ ‘.‘~.éi'2=`_- ` ' __ _ lHi5 chliitloilieiow tluliitilli sei iliac I , '-er to ~» - e__ N v ‘ i `m""' »-»»_.Z %o%K%€ %AIvl;Y FOUNDED ‘ml _"` ` ' -~ I ~ _-V---Z .. '.T.T’.'i°".*;;"t ' #mit -if .. -_.V - ' 3' 'i 0 RURALUUI-YilNt1 CHARLOTT - - » ss _ . ._- _._ . ‘__-Q17; *__* T -> " mhYl_`_i_4` N; y`A mr" _ y A _g ET0WN» PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, CANADA, wEDN1~tso.»\\', lfrznnmpy ,_ ,gm -5 1_1. ,m___,_m___`_ _ “'\ 9 ,ir e \.- si 2 5§ 3; fi 'S4 3*: wa- 3'< :EE LDVANC IC ~ ~ IN ADVA NCP! _ , - -_ -_ _ _ f _ _, , _*___ ,_,_, __ ,_________ ,__ u ‘z<_ ». “‘\,`-3 ».¢ mu I’ --.1-rv ,-- __.._,. __ ,sl ..v 'J' -t vi' le ll' -as ,C-_ ITHE FIRST ` hum- \ ny r. oonnony. "` 'A [lance at "The West from a ca i Window" along any one of the many 1 _ '-1 ` \. . . 7 _ . -_-,_ 9.-.~.f`.!"" ff, ,.2-Qh . ._ in _ t _ “J ff\‘. /L ._T N d';-1'* . `\ sl.. , Z- .,~. _ ` ipwdlf - -lo ._ _-_ ` - - ,YI . I Y ` g l , s , ` ,_ W, __ i qs' Proouces I' Udsrn 'lines which help to link the “mmm In me mn§'!hak°_ sshncis with the Pacino, will son- me the most casual observer that Canadian Northern has either bought ‘D railway is a producer. Where idny. there was only a desert m of sale and silence in the south veal and a wilderness of waving wild QYQM in the Northwest. there are to-' DJ scores of cities, thousands of IGWILI, hundreds of thousands of Iolnol and millions of prosperous _Clad Ind] vtrlmen, red clovtlw, und #Il ren p ay ng under the app e trees. All this the ruil\vl\y has produced. Probthly nowhere on the contin- aut has the railway done more for the ticvelopmont ol’ the west than it has done in Canada, und none of the railways has done so mncll from so lvlnsll a beginning as has been accum- -ghed by the tv-.llfldian Northern. 'hirtoen ye.il'.». ..,, lilo rrtil\vay_con- lridoiillg firm of l\‘i-ul..--./.ie & Mzlnli Igquired a charter for ll ruiilvay in the extern Province of Manitoba. 'rho endrter carried a grant oi' mnny thinl- ssnd acres of land, wortll all tile it-:ly Lrom fifty cents to one dollar por llvre. hhese mon knew tllut ily lluilliing :l gllway and providing tl-nllsportiliion sb' could "create" a value, a now Utd permanent value for these lnlltls. Elo they began billlding. As fast as s short section was coluplotnd they BGSU! operating, and nn intcrestinl; fact is that each und evcry nlilc rolli- Nlted earned operating expenses llliil romething more. In this wily the two shrewd builders laid tile folllldliiloli of s fortune. Mr. William l\ial‘kr~llzil~, lilo pre- sident, and Donald lilllnn, \‘icc-pl~e- aunt, lnlttla a team that llils licvcr _vi passed oil the road to sllccc.i1\‘11d0¥- Am' if you don‘t know, a paradox is eol\.\\”- thing whiohsis what it never was and looks like what it never will iw- Flerce thinlh, son; simply fierce. l “lt's like this, Wllen she's mad she spurts convorsation with a static head ‘ of 280 pounds. The madder she-:Pill the harder it is for her to talk. Anti when she gets clean nlumh nrilllfinl you can’t (IR a word out of hor with J cold chisel. "Get me right, though- H°W°"°‘"- otherwise and nevertheless, a silent lomsn is the sosh hlsmedest _work °l " I most of it. oonents in the Dominion, as well as in the Provincial Parliallénents (fog tllse oust ten years. I-le ma cs an 0 s gg th h | friends from the Premier down to W ° °u d be developed the doorman, makin absolutely no Every day, for thirteen years, the or built u. mile of railway. building ywnk oities created by it and the wonderful industrial development 510115’ the line. has enabled Don Mann, and his interests to command the at- tention of the foreign investor, with out whose cooperation Canadian re- sources oannot be developed as rapidly tAs indicated itn itho stray horse S 0r&,tha gp* e err tory, new com DHS I e wo great provinces of o Saskatchewan and Alberta, ues an n empty empire ten years ago In 1899 this vast area produced only 'I 000 000 bushels of wheat. In 1009 the new West, and the knowledge of the west, gained when contracting on the first Canadian Tmllsrontinental line. en- sblod them to pick the best sections for their line. General Grenville M. Doligo has stated that the discovery of Sillerlnnn Pass wus due to the fact that ll build oi’ bud indians has chas- ed him down n rlllgo which ran fnr out into the plain, and- along which tile Union I’ucii’io was later built. Don. Malin tolls an equally interesting' story of tile discovery' of'what is known as the "Nortll Country" and the Great Saskatchewan Valley which hus since come to be called "Britain'e Urearl basket.” About all Mr. Mann possessed at tllc time was his outfit. He was on the firing lille grading the Canadian Pacific across i1 part of the Northwest morning he markoli lilo absence of nil his horses. \\'ltllout waiting to lvllko the llloll llc lJr>rro\vod u sub- coilil‘iit‘tol"s icnln rind set out after tlir nllilllrtls. 'l‘llul'e was no settle- iliclit for tll't_v or ll hlllidretl miles to illn llrurl-sl IIildson's ll:l_\' post. Ho to free illenlselvos oi’ lliosrpiitocs and fr-ot .soillutliing in lilo wild. ivhll 1'o1lrl\li tile llliitilllo. This liliid Tho Gxlllricnve in bulldlns’ in the Province of Saskatchewan alone pro- duced 84,000,000 bushels of wheat, 102,000,000 bushels of oats. 8,000,000 bushels of barley and 8,000 bushels of flax. With a single exception the wheat yield of the Province of Sas- katchewan exceeds the yield of any state in the Republic to tho south, alnld the pro‘vince is only four years o l . The simple story of the develop- ment that has taken place here since on Mann's horses strayed rorth, tllo wonderful vdakening of this last west, the real Empire building, in which this big, brainy Scotch-Canadian has played such an important part, reads like the verlest romance. Very early ill his career he learned that, strong as his hands were and willing to work. his head must help. Having taken a contract to build some railway and Territories, when, rising early one snow sheds fn the heart of tile Rock- ies. ho harnessed the Columbia River, shot the wild rnplds und l‘ili'iotl ills material. outfit lilld supplies ill. suv- ing $25,000 in tile costvof tlllllsportli- tion. If, in the work oi' llllillllllg, Mackenzie und Mann como ill coll- tnct with iron ore. as they dill on lilo trnvr=lloll for days ilvfore coming Canadian Northeril Ontario. they forlll in sight of the horses. The wind was 11 company for the development oi' hlou-ini; stellrlily llowll from the north the property. At Atikokan. in \\'<~:iiloll.~x field of iron ore, and lilllllntlintely flies. Straight north for i`oilr whole created bl:l§t&_i,`ul'lillr-s~s to prove lo tho llnys illoy lcd him, into :L liew voull- worlll the \‘:1noof’tlleir limi. l-`l:ldiil;; try will-l'o tile lvild grass llllll pezlrlnc that nrlirly all tho large milling coin- grolv \\'nist-lligil to ililll, and lle`s six plinlos had ostzllliishcd along tho lini- of the plonvecr western rclil\vn_v, they i the Canadian Northern, the scores of \ _ D lie found ills horses, and kept them. lnlnlctllately forlneti a powvrfiil niill- Also he kept the secret nf \\'ll:lt he had ing f?0IflDill’i.\'. f‘fl\lFt‘tl m0d0rn mills to set-li. Wllon lit- be-gun building for be erected along their lines. llnli tlln llillise-lf. to in- l»x;lt‘t, for Miivlccllzlc & success ol’ this sillmidlnry colnpariy is Mann. lil- ill-:tilt-ti ills pnthfinders for like the .success oi' almost ovcryllilm; illo north rrlililtry that had been over- to which the firm of Mackenzie and lnoilvll or shunned ll_v ellrlior lullltlcrs' Mann have turned their hands. . A few years ago a railway, some ho tool; llvcr und lu-ross it and tllrllngll two hundred and fifty miles long, it lie sent llnirom of stool. Along this reaching from Regina, the capital oi' lille, ill tell short 'yrnrl-1, pl-ospr-rolls Saskatchewan. to Prince Albert, :lt tho towns llzlve sprung up. ']‘l\c prnirio far northern ell t- of the uhoatflr-ill rlliilt-nv Illtl-rost.~l, llnll tile lilstol'_\‘ tvilstes lluvo liven L-iiungml to \\'a\‘lrlg fields. llis ruil\\':l,\' llns tillsorbad null ittlton ovl~l‘ tilt- Mllllitoha tlove1'nnl<~llt ill' illll llliolwolllillltl ltnllwliy oi' Cllliatill provvs thiit it tlrwcrlltlicnt railway is ll lvliilc llinll's llilrllvn. 'Pho success of an oihf‘r\\'lso ilclleilcont l’l'ovIdellce. "'l`iiat silent treutnlellt effect .ls what brinigs the silver tllrends among the gold. Tlmt's what makes mar- ried mon lellrn to bcgullc the thing they ill-ll ily seeming otiierwistfas the poet- so aptly expresses it. I‘m going io tell _vou, son, a conversational wom- nn wifo°ls a sore trial, and offense rind il stumbling block. lint you take it from me, when you frame her up alongside of tile silent sister sort of silnpil-l sorrow site is five ares to the deck. Yrs, sir, she is illnt. “I tell you, son. this silent grotich business is n problem. lt's il study. I put it dowll that _nny nlnll who can invont un nntilloto is going to Ile rich. fllnlous null happy nil nt tht* ,HMM time. And listen, l‘vl= Rot a 8\"’fll» schenlc. Tliorrfs n sure way to beat il, and your crnfty Uncle llonry had tilougllt it out all for himself. Anil tried it too, by grat-iolls. lif=.not as dumb, llrivnu cnttlo, luv n hero. "Ali right, I collins llonln tht* 0lh€‘\‘ night nntl found that I was persons mm grntll with little wife. She could nut sue inf* with rl Ycrkes telescope. 1 had to go look in the glass to find out it I was really home. I dont snow what was the matter 'with hor 'but whatever it was it was my fnuit, of course. “'.»\\l,‘ I says, 'posterity never dill anything for me, so you c uid notice lt.' l says, ‘but,' I says: 'l xl certain- ly built on the general ground plan oi’ a public benefactor. I will try this lit- tle scheme out and put the double cross on s. lowering futurlty,' I says. "Ali rlght..Wl1en I got sort .of braced I sings ont: 'I-Iuh,' I says, 'I dunno what this house would be if some one didn't come in once and rl while and psy some attention to somo- t.hin¢. That front door bell won’t ring. lt's busted,' like that, I says. Of course I knew it wasn’t busted, but I just wanted to start her oil. " 'The bell rings perfectly 1veli,' she says. , "Beef I had her from the start. Oh, ‘ this is s bang up idea of mine. All right. Then I comes back at her sort of mean. . _ "'Notlllng of the sort! I s s. 'It don’t ringbecause it's|busted.% guess I ought to know. Seems like every- .think is busted around Mrs.” I says, lasdins he: out #2 ants another, gl . . and the southern shore of the flir- ilc-aring and wood-producing wiltltrr- ness of the North, was for sniff. ll llnil been operated iiltliffercntiy iillllcrl a lease for some _vollrs by into or lill- hiir systems and was not counted of lllucll value. The names ot' stations] lint l't>:iil\‘ llt~l-l-\.<.'| till- ll \\li do _voll ll~'l\ tlir~lll?" ' . '|`ll¢~ “ii l knew l had her. I Was some sos up over it too. Soi goos out on the front stops nild gives the tiling a push lzondgand strong so iliere woullill't be any mistake. “Vi'oli, slr, you can just see mo ollt on thiit stoop with tilt- llglii of victory ill lli}.'i,ve:~l, just dipp_\' with ex¢‘iiellli»nl like a boy siiinningllis ilrst top, l sort of il_unrt\d it out i was qualifying to have a national holiday named alter sl l'$f»‘$?fl iid.f’l3s2¥§"fti‘.§’<§`lntr.'l<~t llintlv with, ills work in the ¥Vest is a "good luck" had laboured long and late to find n Mr. Mann to guarantee interest on story and if the reader should be way to secure the entrance ol" the line the bonds to pwvide funds for the lured to these new-found Ileids he vvfil ‘31"’PP°1 "WMV “W” 5°’ ' ““°I"'|i° and escape criticism. Finally, one extension of the Canadian Northern to better his condition, for here lies the wilt 09°" I-Hd hll' Wimlll 177° l gternoon I ttho "Athabascn." Mr. :hex coasitmtio gilve Vancouver nllrii \’IiIt;- Land of Opportunity. dir.zi‘l1. ' ' ' -- l nun's pr va c oar, arrival, and that ora nt r onzl irzllisportntioll nc - _ 5 n night tllcre was c meeting. At lengt ties and competition, of which tile “,}E[;,}:,ltsS5Lf`?er,nhS1!;"?i.‘:f,?;, tgilggafgng train was following. It losmid 2 thirty nlinutos were \\'.'l=fotl tryilli.: ill coast country is ill grunt ncod. Ono |mSh,,],_, of “meat per nmfe ln" wig] long time, but in a littls Whlli f.i\0Y hf make ll start. i'l~t».st-lilly, ns .inn oi' of the main rfltlstlns for nliarnntevint: ,mp _,,,,,,,,,,,ed to 94 562 'O00 bu.,h,,,,, the rock bottom of the gulch. Much the /\ldorlllf‘l\ ti‘ll~: lilo story. Don fill' lhlrlfif id ihill U10 \\'llont from tlle|The pmvlnce of SH§`im¢(.‘hewm1 `gmfB' to ills amazement Don was not dead. Mann turlicd to tlln city clerk nlitl Mlrlflio \\t~=t must r1“r\<‘li T1\\'f‘i`l‘»ftol via ]9_4 to me nc,-e_ F,-nm 3 fi]-3 497 H,-r(._.,|lle saw four cars of steel. ten oats-(lf :llskcll for ll .= and llrissetl it o\'f‘r to ilw fill' 'lull :,li!.< l-:' v.lll>llil:ll\ll lvost of \\'ill-‘tt-mrs “H055 Q "Ce 0 ms “"1 |‘lt\l‘k. l~lr‘ pl'|»l`ltll-1-ll :lllrl lirllivti it llipv_-.;’. i¢_\' tlll- norillr\l'll l`t\liitltlll'f\il;;l\ ' ` lawn (_i,,m__ v|-lu, ,,_.,.,,,. H,-:.1 HH, uw Hm_m`_s_ Mu M-_,mn p,.n|mg,,s ,U Anti now from building rnilwlays 1-lr-rl; ill rl-flll lt'-fl it~ rl~.ill I :mil rf-:ll~li tidt- lvntqin tllri west on nll‘““"I""‘7'i" “mi Nan" '"9 'U -‘"1" llrltl tilt-t.'ltf~ll. hir. .\i:lll\l nlnoil ’ 'l`lu- llllllost, lvvol line. If llc silccoetls in!""H‘H"iZ 5ml33*“"t Dl'°5d“0‘18hl9»'- »\i1l.\'f‘i' Il:tl'll¢>ti that he had bilh "IWII" - l ililc lllztll. ltrfwl in tile open. r-lsr lo tllroliklimlt ilu- l’l‘\\`iilt»t-s-_ l`iit- r;lti~ il \\n»- ill< til---1 vsilllt-r in Dsl:-.lilto‘\.~.. ¢`. l- avr its and that he WU Juli. doin- eay if tlic l1l'oiJo.=itioll slit fortil in the from Edlnuntoll is ein- some to-day as I lit- ilzltl .~'llt~l-l»l-.|~ti in talkin; l:~~s :tr-lt ting out of a bad case of pnsudsonis. .~ .__ ll-nut'-l' .~~l¢l'- Fo--.~l ini' .~ll.~.ii‘v' .iiuivll llll- NEW DRESS GOQDB' ‘ "So I gives it s. good push. Then I ttlli-ltr ll;- 'll '-\l‘l ll' ‘>"' I =»l"‘ ' ___ "1 iisiensgl ditln't hear lnythinl. I oxlxlilly out ' l~..:..:; lor \.'~|itl< .‘\'»-l int I ‘ gives it another shove. Still nothing tim saith nf i»_vvin:~ it lite". l-`t rtrnl- favored us ln securin [gr- tlning. Pl'o|mlll_\' something the mnt- -,will lik t.ill_ nl».~.l_ i`ll. ltZt.l .l.l.= I i~`l'i.11ili pierce éi Frsnch Di`s@lh'n\ tor with the iinttoll. I nnscrewe that ,. .,~-,.-.li_ nil llslll. it lt. lil.» i..-i; lllni. -1'1'fr»s iiootis. Fashions latest, fi: lu a llurry llntl touclles the ends of ml.; out nl' oltlt-r. i`lll lo ll-y it ii1"“l1l_\l¢_Sm\P- We illwllil \o‘\lt`-Rho ihr- wires. Still no ring. lscrews on ,,,,,,,,| _.,,,m_ ,hm__ .|.h_|_ ___.,_ H SM, lpnhllc in on this snap, ga; ws wish tht- lllitton again. anti then who comés . gf-is owl- wllnt‘.~< tin- llllllll-r \-.itil ll'-r. 4" f‘““"" UU’ nn" 90° 5 D495"-' nlosvyillil Oiltvlltlt Wii’f‘. . ie1i\'t>.\' it to ull- l;llll.l :l.lt| llii li is :lil i'_"°nt Pvc" '.n_ure strongly' tliq~¢.'.°°` " ‘\\‘l-ll,‘ silo says, ‘ring lt.' she S-"i.\'s. ` t-onli-ti tlov.-ll' :untill 'i`ill,:'lI t;.l.~~ _-onto `f""'}h““:_lv'_h‘° we frgniss ’@'&"'m 'l)on'i lit- standing there like n foolf; iitllc. Iilli llllyltotv it‘s :l _suoil .~c'll’~-tile, "fmh_eh;rc 1180 13:2? silo sllys. . _ wl.;lt” il it works riglli, that is. itfm, ,.~,r,.,,(,t ,.U|Urin"_ 511° |06," "i llilln't say one single little word. iilll' 80 cents 5 yard. Come today or i was lliinkilns, l was. 'l‘llell site gives tl-ln’t illalne us ii the color.you~ve'nt ll hitch alltlll Ilull' :lull slit' izivvs tlill is suit] ont. 1-NIH. lllltioll ai push. Silvnlv l~l\|l:lll-ll. Silo zivt-.~i it .snino more pllslzt-s :ind no, _ ,»|m_f_ '||,,|," 5|". Rm., and “UN our t "'lllc illdins of lhnl‘lott.ci..\,wn and ""°°-"°'°"°"“*'*'“ -._l . "\\'l-ll..son, tllllt was some days nlzo 1 "“"“".‘ Will’ “fe in th” hah" mill alll- {l:lsn't .~:t\0li ine _\l‘t. Fact is vnliillg away lor something select Hnecelven yn- u_ s_ \1`a|| “_ .1 l'lll not ~'1 :til ilrt-tl tlllximli: i`or hor to V" °"k:“-'_7 “‘lVR"i“¢° ‘li ‘l"l` Ml” tered at the Ctllfolll yn'lf0i'd%;,'f&‘ sw mn' ._Hmm`(_ wh, H Jw 'mm (VNIIU l»o»l-f~'~.’w 1-~tl~lldeor\kih.fr 'tulle B mlm- most critical inspection 3,450 yds oi in-l~ of l;lcr orders, nm! Wfllllil helthe best assorted shipment of eoldr- l»lt-llsl-tl tn rccclae many othrrs. Shell-tl gingham; zl-ping-,_ 4|-l\]|_» cl-¢P°“’,_ . ~ _Y _MY H l:= no novice in lliiyinir, had A lnrze gat,-png mul other prmhd 'oo ul I ' rxprrionre in the Azllrricnn anr1`Llr.na-*‘__q=¢ mim-5 of th, use-*_ dmla ‘nd ._» " A > tiiun lnllritvts and has a lhormlgll coloring, [Or “non 15|0_ Prim. mn Volte'fo:" liyons as Mayor,t.l of nnwlnlillev of lccsi reqiiirenlents.~ l5c, 22c and 25;, B" wp-|¢¢y_ g-A' °°P es o o oo i-i8d \ Paton & oo. 1--Ztldtt. ., 1»aton‘s, _,__h_ _,\~|_____` lt,-,~|7”|' me too. QI If \ _..>, __~__..__.__g -». .ilolliwi :lt l:|sl lll<‘rt-':: noilll: lil lm slllillx l‘l 1-l--st -it mit- llllil\:.~ You .\'f>l~ ill.. s . , _ ,