6 ' THE GREAT CANADIAN NORTHWEST.

 

climate of the great North West. It is moving northward, and

’ steering, with its blessing of peace and plenty, for the once barred

limits of the Arctic Circle, even there to make happy homes and
glad hearts. The poet Who wrote of love of country, and the dis-
position of each man to view the land of his home as the most
blessed spot on earth, little knew how much truth would yet be in
his beautiful couplet: .
“The shivering tenant of a frigid zone
Boldly proclaims that spot his own."
In this great land of plenty, this vast extent of fertile country
there is no district which offers so great inducements to the settler
or capitalist seeking profitable investment as

SOUTHERN MANITOBA.

In this district, we take the international boundary line as the
Southern limit, the divide between the Lake of the Woods and the
Red River as the Eastern and the Assiniboine River the Northern,
while on the west it stretches to the Turtle Mountains and Souris
River Valley. East of the Red River for a distance of 25 miles
stretches one side of the famous Red River Valley, whose soil pos-
sesses untold agricultural wealth, and whose fertility is now
acknowledged by the most incredulous misrepresentor of the
North-West. This country is now pretty well settled up, and pre-
sents the appearance of aflourishing settlement. From the Western
bank of the Red River, the emigrant can shape his course in the
direction of the Rocky Mountains, and from the time he leaves

~ the river brink he encounters one scene after another, which will

delight the eye of the agricultural prospector. .First he passes
through the great Menonite settlement, where thousands of the
peace loving and thrifty subjects of a tyrant emperor, whose harsh
and cruel laws drove them from the shores of Europe, have settled
and made homes, that are the admiration of all who have visited
this country. In this settlement the visitor can see what are the
rewards for industry and toil, and see some thousands of homes,
where peace and plenty reigns supreme. Leaving these clusters
of happy homes the traveler passes through the Pembina Mountain
district, where hundreds of thousands of acres of fine prairie lands
await the plow of the farmer to transform them into fields of
waving grain. Further west he reaches the Swan Lake, Rock Lake