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Title: The web of empire : a diary of the imperial tour of their Royal Highnesses the Duke & Duchess of Cornwall & York in 1901
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, 1841-1919 Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1922, ill Martino, Eduardo de, d. 1912
Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936 Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867-1953
Publisher: London, New York : Macmillan and company, limited
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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stern limit of our Empire, we have seen everywhere many and varied proofs of its steady and certain progress, material and political; but I doubt whether in the whole course of that experience a more striking to be found than in the comparison of the Fort Garry of our childhood with the Winnipeg of to-day. Then, - as you say, a village hamlet in a solitude, broken only by presence of the passing hunter and fur-trader ; to-day the a i JJLSd 8YOHJOOHD8 .03<ILMWIW 4d 1 Garry, andnaif-breed insurgentsin the following year it wase Red River Expedition under Colonelw Lord) Wolseley, and from that date its rapidprogress begins. Already it has 42,000 inshows unmistakable signs ofThe villa quarter is very but some of the st \d as a y has still the unfinished appearance of :f the American Far We present inhabitants who came with dition is Colonel McMillan, now the Province. At his official V pleasant luncheon-party; after whi hnesses drive to the Manis. Universit aally the new building. Here
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xi CANADA : WESTWARD JOURNEY 387 several Indian Chiefs in European costume are pre-sented, and a number of pupils of the Indian TechnicalSchool are put through their drill. Three thousandschool-children sing the National Anthem and theDominion Hymn. In the evening the Royal partydine with the Lieutenant-Governor, and, after witness-ing a torchlight procession, start for Regina, the capitalof the North-West Territories. Friday, 2jth September.—When we awake in themorning we find the ground covered with snow ; butthe real winter has not yet begun, for the thermometeris hardly below freezing-point, and in many of the fieldsthe stooks of wheat are still standing. We are now inAssiniboia, one of the four large Provisional Districtsalready carved out of the North-West Territories. Itis evidently a rich agricultural country, for we see atall the stations gigantic grain-elevators ; but it is notthe treeless, monotonous prairie. Here and there arepatches of wood, especially in the vicinity o

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