Free homes and cheap railway lands! :
one hundred million acres! open for settlement along the lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Manitoba, Assiniboia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, the four great provinces of the Canadian North-West ; with maps, and illustrations made from photographs.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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[Montréal, Québec] : [Canadian Pacific Railway], 1890.
- Note
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Two maps included on verso of text separated by a banner, "The Canadian Pacific Railway traversing the great fertile belt of Canada."
Advertises the topography, soil and climate of the Canadian North-West and offers advise to settlers. It includes an extract from the St. Paul and Minneapolis Pioneer Press, May 1888. "Manitoba, the garden of the Northwest, the country which is now and will be still more in the future the storehouse of this continent; the land of wheat, the best that has ever been grown; the fertile belt, with its millions of acres of the best available land; the country which offers an unsurpassed home for the millions who will yet till its fertile prairies, a country second to none, and first in its productive yield."
- Physical Description
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1 sheet (23 pages) :
illustrations, 2 maps ;
69 x 80 cm, folded to 23 x 11 cm
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