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C O N C L U S I O N .
I HAVE thought it most convenient to the reader to unite
with the text, as it passes i n description from place to place,
what knowledge of the agricultural and other resources of
the country was obtainable at the time. The reader is probably
weary of description by this time; but, should he make
a similar journey, I am convinced he would not weary of the
reality. Travellers, however, differ strangely i n perception.
Some are observers, with imagination to brighten and judgment
to weigh, and, i f need be, correct, first impressions;
whilst othere, with vacant eye, or out of harmony with novel
and perhaps irksome surroundings, see, or profess to see,
nothing. The readiness, for instance, of the Eastern " fling "
at Western Canada t h i r ty years ago is still remembered, and
it is easy to transfer it to the North.
Those who lament the meagreness of our records of the
fur- trade and primitive social life in Ontario, for example,
before the advent of the U . E . Loyalists, can find their almost
exact counterpart i n Athabasca to- day. For what that Province
was then, viz., a wilderness, Athabasca is now; and it
is safe to predict that what Ontario is to- day Athabasca w i ll
become i n time. Indeed, Northern Canada is the analogue
of Eastern Canada i n more likenesses than one.
That the country is great and possessed of almost unique
resources is beyond doubt; but that it has serious drawbacks,
particularly i n its lack of railway connection with the outer
world, is also true. And one thing must be borne i n mind,
namely, that, when the limited areas of prairie within its
borders are taken up, the settler must face the forest with
the axe.
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| OCR | C O N C L U S I O N . I HAVE thought it most convenient to the reader to unite with the text, as it passes i n description from place to place, what knowledge of the agricultural and other resources of the country was obtainable at the time. The reader is probably weary of description by this time; but, should he make a similar journey, I am convinced he would not weary of the reality. Travellers, however, differ strangely i n perception. Some are observers, with imagination to brighten and judgment to weigh, and, i f need be, correct, first impressions; whilst othere, with vacant eye, or out of harmony with novel and perhaps irksome surroundings, see, or profess to see, nothing. The readiness, for instance, of the Eastern " fling " at Western Canada t h i r ty years ago is still remembered, and it is easy to transfer it to the North. Those who lament the meagreness of our records of the fur- trade and primitive social life in Ontario, for example, before the advent of the U . E . Loyalists, can find their almost exact counterpart i n Athabasca to- day. For what that Province was then, viz., a wilderness, Athabasca is now; and it is safe to predict that what Ontario is to- day Athabasca w i ll become i n time. Indeed, Northern Canada is the analogue of Eastern Canada i n more likenesses than one. That the country is great and possessed of almost unique resources is beyond doubt; but that it has serious drawbacks, particularly i n its lack of railway connection with the outer world, is also true. And one thing must be borne i n mind, namely, that, when the limited areas of prairie within its borders are taken up, the settler must face the forest with the axe. 147 |
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