Get your Canadian home from the Canadian Pacific : a handbook regarding sunny Alberta and the opportunities offered you by the Canadian Pacific Railway in that province
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subject: Canadian Pacific Railway
subject: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
subject: Agriculture
subject: Land tenure
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: 1912-03
description: Pamphlet advertising opportunities in Alberta for settlers. Contact information lists a Seattle address.
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note: r__ ■ IcANADIANJIf IPACIFICj % railwayJ/ \y GET YOUR CANADIAN HOME FROM The Canadian Pacific A HANDBOOK OF INFORMATION REGARDING SUNNY ALBERTA AND THE OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED YOU BY THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY IN THAT PROVINCE Presented by THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY Department of Natural Resources CALGARY, ALBERTA CANADA 1912 SUNNY ALBERTA ? Part I. INTRODUCTION ALBERTA is one of the two provinces formed in 1905 out of that portion of Canada known as the Northwest Territories, occupying the great central plain lying between the Rocky Mountains on the west and the Province of Manitoba on the east. It is a' province with almost illimitable assets and is one of the largest of the Canadian Federation. Alberta has grown rapidly in wealth and population. Its development during the past decade has been marvelous. Its possibilities, however, are so vast, its natural resources so rich and varied, that the province has not yet passed the threshold of its wondrous and inevitable development. BOUNDARIES OF ALBERTA. With the Rocky Mountains to the west as a background and the International Boundary separating Canada from the United States to the south as a base, the Province of Alberta extends north and east comprising an area greater than that of any country in Europe save Russia, and more than twice the combined areas of Great Britain and Ireland. Its northern boundary, the 60th parallel of latitude, passes through the Shetland Islands and north of St. Petersburg; and its, southerly boundary, the 49th parallel of latitude, passes south of the English Channel, through France a few miles north of Paris, through the southern portion of the German Empire, and through the middle of Austria-Hungary. Thus the Province lies wholly within the north temperate zone, and the climate compares favorably with those European countries just mentioned. AREA OF ALBERTA. Few people outside of the Province of Alberta have any adequate idea of its vast size. To grasp it, one must conceive of Canad…
has type: Advertisements
has type: Pamphlets
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0226317
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Chicago : Blakely Printing Company
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-193-10-2
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