Excerpt from On Canada's Frontier: Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure, and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-Traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada

IF all those into Whose hands this book may fall were as well in formed upon the Dominion of Canada as are the people of the United States, there would not be needed a word of explanation of the title of this volume. Yet to those who might otherwise infer that What is here related applies equally to all parts of Canada, it is necessary to explain that the work deals solely with scenes and phases of life in the newer, and mainly the western, parts of that country. The great English colony which stirs the pages of more than two centuries of history has for its capitals such proud and notable Cities as Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, Halifax, and many oth ers, to distinguish the progressive Civilization of the region east of Lake Huron - the older provinces. But the Canada of the geogra phies of to-day is a land of greater area than the United States; it is, in fact, the British America of Old. A great trans-canadian railway has joined the ambitious province of the Pacific Slope to the provinces of old Canada with stitches of steel across the Plains. There the same mixed surplusage of Europe that settled our own West is elbowing the fur-trader and the Indian out of the way, and is laying out farms far north, in the smiling Peace River district, where it was only a little while ago supposed that there were but two seasons, winter and late spring. It is with that new part of Can ada, between the ancient and well-populated provinces and the sturdy new Cities of the Pacific Coast, that this book deals.' Some refer ences to the North are added in those Chapters that treat of hunting and fishing and fur-trading.

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