Canada West

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Excerpt from Canada West: Useful Information for SettlersThe agricultural settlement of the Province, aside from the Selkirk colony already referred to, may be said to have com menced when Manitoba was first linked up with the outside world by means of the Canadian Pacific Railway, in the early eighties of the last century. Hardy pioneers had been ¿ocking into the country even in advance of the railways, and, driving their yokes of oxen, with their wives, children and worldly pos sessions loaded on waggon or Red River cart, they plodded day after day into the wilderness, seeking the most favourable loca tion to establish a home. The land they received free from the Government on condition that they carried out certain residence and improvement duties, but the lot of the early pioneer was by no means an easy one. The fertility of the soil was unbounded, but until settlement became somewhat general the ripening crops were frequently destroyed by early frosts, or the harvested grain was licked up by prairie fires which swept over the leagues of unbroken plain. The farm machinery of the time was crude and poorly adapted to prairie conditions, and the farmers them selves had little knowledge of the best practices to follow. Worse still, they had no competent advisers, as in those early days Government experiments in agriculture under prairie conditions had not been carried far enough to warrant definite conclusions. Railway services were expensive and inadequate, marketing facilities were undeveloped, the wonderful systems of grading and inspection which have since made Western Canada farm products the standard of excellence everywhere, had not yet been brought into existence.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.