The Province of Saskatchewan, Canada
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Excerpt from The Province of Saskatchewan, Canada: Its Development and Opportunities The prairies of Western Canada need no introduction. The fame of their wonderful magnitude and their unrivalled beauty has already spread the world over, while the romance of the transition from the buffalo hunting grounds of the red man to the wheat fields of the white is already history. At an early date the poet Bryant immortalized them in his lines entitled "The Prairies," wherein he described them as "the gardens of the deserts" and "the unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful." Like the mighty ocean they stretch away in every direction from the eye till their gently undulating waves of verdant vanish in the misty circle of the distant horizon. Day after day the early explorers pushed their way across these unbroken solitides, and night after night pitched their camps under the starry heavens, with the same vista always about them. What visions of the future they saw can only be imagined, but, with the multitudes of gorgeous flowers and the luxuriant vegetation carpeting their route, they must surely have realized that a great heritage of opportunity lay there. Even the transcontinental traveller of to-day, though schooled to expect it, marvels at the outlook. All day long his train rushes on its way, and from the first break of dawn till the lingering twilight shuts out the view the eye strains and fails to see any discord in the symmetry of the prairie gardens. From these mighty plains have been carved out three great provinces, the "prairie provinces" of Canada, of which Saskatchewan occupies the middle location. Their northerly limits extend beyond the plains, however, into the more rugged and complex districts of the Laurentian region, thus giving a field of more varied resources to draw upon and round out their internal completeness. The province of Saskatchewan embraces the heart of the prairies, and the lions share of their choicest lands. To the east lies Manitoba and to the west Alberta. Here in the midst of the great grain belt it has developed within a few short years into the greatest wheat-producing province of the Dominion, and can boast of the most extensive unbroken area of first-class wheat land to be found anywhere in the world. The march of progress is now in full swing and the opportunity to share in the great growth that is to be witnessed in this province in the immediate future is open to all who may desire to cast in their lot with her people. The southerly boundary of the province is the International boundary line between Canada and the United States, being the 49th parallel of north latitude. The states of North Dakota and Montana are immediately adjacent to this line. The northerly boundary is the 60th parallel of north latitude, beyond which lie the Northwest Territories. In length, then, it extends over 11 degrees of latitude and measures 761 miles. Its width gradually decreases from 393 miles, at the International boundary, to 277 miles at the northerly end, extending from an irregular line between longitude 101° 30´ and 102° West, to longitude 110° West. The average width is 335 miles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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