Through Canada in Harvest Time: A Study of Life and Labour in the Golden WestT. F. Unwin, 1903 - 363 páginas |
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Página 166 - Poor tenant bodies, scant o' cash, How they maun thole a factor's snash; He'll stamp and threaten, curse and swear, He'll apprehend them, poind their gear: While they maun stan', wi' aspect humble, An' hear it a', an' fear an
Página 14 - ... utilities, operated mostly in the Middle West, have reached substantial agreement to sponsor the next phase of this research in a cooperative arrangement with the Avco-Everett Research Laboratory, and additional work on this should commence very soon. In the field of transmission of electric energy the great progress that has been made in recent years in the development of high voltage, which has given us the highly successful 345-360 kilovolt alternating current transmission lines in operation...
Página 236 - Although the cedars and Douglas Firs are the trees of greatest economic importance to British Columbia at present, and the coast forests where they grow are the only ones likely to be worked for some years to come, they by no means exhaust the forest wealth of this province. The big trees form a mere littoral fringe.
Página 136 - It is characterized by a maximum of bright, still, cloudless days, a scanty snow-fall, and frequent and prolonged breaks of warm weather, heralded by the chinook wind, of which more hereafter.
Página 355 - I contrasted the darkness, moral and physical, that have followed in the train of industrial development in England, with the Arcadian freshness of the Canadian landscape. I had become convinced that great multitudes of British people will migrate to find brighter homes in Canada and to help in furthering industry and commerce.
Página 285 - ... a year, derived from selected rich ores found near the existing lines of transportation. In 1893, however, the value of the production of the lode mines of the province rose to...
Página 194 - Craigellachie on November 7, 1885, the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was driven by Sir Donald Smith (Lord Strathcona).
Página 157 - Large tracts of land there are that could profitably be utilized for grazing ; and there is every reason to expect that in the course of a few years...
Página ix - THE author dedicates this book to the workers of England, Scotland, and Ireland, hoping that it may inspire many to seek new homes in a land which, though it may not " flow with milk and honey," assuredly offers to all who are not impatient of toil better opportunities of attaining comfort, independence, and fulness of life, than are to be found in any of the Old World states.
Página xiii - Portions of this book have appeared in a series of articles in the Leeds and Yorkshire Mercury and in the Leeds Mercury weekly supplement.