Get your farm home from the Canadian Pacific : a handbook of information regarding irrigation farming in sunny Alberta, the kingdom of mixed farming
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subject: Canadian Pacific Railway
subject: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
subject: Irrigation
subject: Agriculture
is part of: Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection
creator: Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Department of Natural Resources
issued: 2016-03-03
created: 1915-03
description: Pamphlet describing the benefits of irrigation to farming, and conditions in Alberta.
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note: Get Your Farm Home FROM THE CANADIAN PACIFIC A HANDBOOK OF INFORMATION REGARDING IRRIGATION FARMING IN SUNNY ALBERTA THE KINGDOM OF MIXED FARMING Presented by THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY Department of Natural Resources CALGARY, ALBERTA CANADA 1915 FOREWORD SOUTHERN ALBERTA is one of the finest agricultural districts now available for settlement on the North American continent. Its virgin soil, its low priced lands, its ideal weather conditions, its nearness to home and foreign markets because of its splendid transportation facilities, have combined to bring it prominently before the attention of the entire world as the "Last Best West." Whether for grain raising, mixed farming, or stock raising, it is unequalled. To it every year are flocking an increasing number of settlers from all parts of America and Europe. For the Canadian West has emerged from the experimental stage. More than a quarter of a century has passed since the pioneer farmers and ranchers braved the hardships of isolation and the financial risks incidental to all new and untried ventures; and today Southern Alberta is furnishing happy and prosperous homes for thousands of those who are flying from the competition and crush of more thickly populated districts. The Canadian Pacific Railway has for some years past been engaged in completing a gigantic irrigation scheme by means of which irrigation farming can be made possible in a large area in the heart of this region. It should be emphasized, at the start, that this undertaking, involving as it does a very heavy capital expenditure, has not been necessitated by the same adverse climatic or soil conditions that have caused the creation of irrigated tracts in other parts. Southern Alberta is neither arid nor desert; it produces without irrigation some of the finest crops that can be grown on this continent; and, unlike some sub-humid countries, it is free from cactus, grease- wood and sagebrush. However, in the course of a speech to farmers at Strathm…
has type: Advertisements
has type: Pamphlets
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0226203
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Chicago : Poole Bros
current location: Box 193
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. The Chung Collection. CC-TX-193-12
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