Identifier: birdnestinginnor00rain (find matches)
Title: Bird-nesting in north-west Canada
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Raine, Walter, 1861-1934
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Toronto : Printed by Hunter, Rose and Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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gration to Canada pro-mises to be greater than ever this year, and those coming areof the right class, agriculturists with a capital of from $500to SI,000 to l:)egin upon. Ontario is also becoming alarmed at the number of farmerswho are leaving this spring for the North-West. Ontario can-not attbrd to allow Manitoba to be populated at her expense,although it is a fact that agriculturists can do much better inthe North-West than in Ontario. Here is a picture of whatis repeating itself every day: A group of families start fromthe older provinces in early spring, because, though they mayhave to suffer peculiar hardships at that season, they areanxious to put up their buildings and gather a partial cropfrom the upturned sod before the first winter comes. The farms consist, at the outset, of the vast stretch of un-tilled land that has waited long for the plough: the farmhouse is the emigrants wagon or prairie schooner, the sta-ble the sky, and their bed a waterj^roof or rug on the prairie.
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In North-West Canada. 135 In a week the first house is up. Neighbour helps neighbour.In two or three weeks several log houses spring up, dotting thehitherto lonely expanse with centres of life and interest. Thesettlers now have their shelters ; complacently they look ontheir new neat log cabins, which usually consist of one largeroom, with a ladder in the middle that leads to the loft orupper story where rude quarters for the night are found. Adark strip on the green prairie that bespeaks the presence ofthe plough is the next step in advance; then a piece of fenc-ing, or one or two stables or other outhouses, and cattle gatherround the steading. June comes, and the plough is in fullswing; Gee and haw are heard for miles around. Blackstrips of ploughed land, becoming larger every day, are notice-able. Where the prairie has been broken near the houses thechances are that the dark-green of the potato vine is seencoming up, and farther off a piece of oats or barley lookingstrong and healt

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