CANADA OF TO-DAY—SOME VIEWS OF DOMINION CITIES AND INDUSTRIES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 3, 15 July 1908, Page 23

CANADA OF TO-DAY—SOME VIEWS OF DOMINION CITIES AND INDUSTRIES.

Montreal lias a population of about 300,000. Its buildings, constructed chiefly of grey sandstone, are imposing, and the parks are splendid. It is the chief railway centre of the country, and has modern and extensive shipping facilities, no less than fourteen Atlantic steamer lines trading with the port.

Among the most valuable assets of the Dominion are the vast forests, which extend for thousands of miles. In the year I SOO only some 2,000 loads, equal to 52 tons, of lumber, were sent to Great Britain, while in 1005 the wood exported was valued at $37,777,008. The timber is sent to many parts of the world, and even we in New Zealand are importing some, the steamer Yeddo, which arrived last week in Auckland, bringing a million feet of Oregon pine.

THE RESULTS OE THREE CENTURIES OF PROCRESS.

In the year 11)05 Canada exported wheat ami Hour to the value of $18,402,899, and most of this came from Manitoba, which is the great wheatgrowing province of the Dominion. The Canadian-Pacific Railway, which has a mileage of 8,298 miles, has great collecting stations where the grain is dealt with in bulk by the elevators, whence it is railed to the shipping ports.

The city of Winnipeg, in 1871. had a population of 241. To (lay its citizens number over 50.000. The Hood of immigration into Manitoba is respon sible for the remarkable development of this centre, which is known as the Prairie Metropolis. It is lighted with electricity, and the main street, 100 feet wide, paved with cedar blocks for over two miles, is one of the handsomest streets in Canada.