WINTER IN CANADA.

Grey River Argus, 22 January 1912, Page 1

WINTER IN CANADA.

_A foa-etastc of the s'everc^cold receiv. ly recorded in Canada was 'experienred by an Australian! visCting Winnipeg. Writing to a Sydney firiend, under date November 16, he s ays : — ■ The temperature here to-day is 14 below zero, and it does go as low as 48 below in the winter proper. Fancy Australians living here ! "Yet,, notwithstanding" all these weather condivions, people from the .Old Country flow in 1 here by the thousands. So much for the Canadian Pacific; Railway Company and the Canadian Government advertising. Australia shouJdwake uyi and endeavour to geb part of this human stream to flow there. . Of icourse* the labouring- class are leaving here mow by thousands, going to warmer parts, east, I believe and it is estimated tliat- there is 27 per cent of the wheat crop not harvested yet, on account of so much : rain and itlhe early winter. L&st Sunday, when I was in Chicago, about 900 miles- from here, there was a\ •blvzzardj which caused. several deaths, and two people were frozen to 1 death in the streets by falling dowb and being unable f.b getl up. If you were to see the fur coats which are Mised here you would ask youself wihat wild "animal thei r came off. AH ; the hotels I have been in are steam-heat-ed ; the same wit ! h Mie trams' and trains. Ik is quite a picture to look at the trains as they come .in t ! o a station after passing through .hundreds of miles of snow.