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bone of the Dominion, Canada played
the hoot during the summer of 1924 to
(tn grerwilelmingly greaternumber of
holiday; visitors than she had „ever had
the opportunity of •welebming in ,pre-
vious years, Each spring makes it.
increasingly c e r that Canada is be.•
coining definitely established In the
-Hinds of people of other countries,
more partfemilarly the United States,
as the •location for their annual vaca-
tion, and that in the future the Do-
minion can look to an ever -swelling
invasion throughout the summer . to
her countless beauty spots and regions
of wild romance.
The greater bulk of these visitors,
however, have returned to their homes
long before the advent of the Indian
summer with its balmy days, and few
are there when the first touch of frost
tinges the grand Canadian woods a
myriad tints. Some there .are; .and
they are a growing number, wb,o post-
pone their vacation until the fall and
oome to Canada when she offers the
most superb hunting on the continent.
Stila fewer are those who have learnt
the joys of the Canadian winter sea-
son, but there has come to be a grati-
fying increase each year in those who
come to participate in Canadian win-
ter sports.
The people of the American con-
tinent who have been wont to read of
the winter sports of Europe with ;a
certain amount et envy, are just coin-
ing to realize that north of them, easi-
ly accessible, is a series of Norways
and Switzerlands stretching from.
coast to coast, offering the most mag-
nificent order of winter revelry and
the greatest variety of sport. • Those
who once have indulged in Canadian
winter revelry become devotees and
return annually. The number is grow -
lug, but there are still too few with
any appreciation of the pleasures of
the winter season in Canada. -
In the past Canada has been content
Co disregard the violent misconcep-
tions which have widely prevailed
about her winter and plunged reek-
lesslyi.nto hibernal gaiety without a
care that other peoples were ignorant
of her pleasures. Of late years, how-
ever, there has been a pronounced
movement to make the Canadian win-
ter known as 3t really is and further
to bring people from other lands to •
share i
n >ne toys of the season. In
effecting this end winter sports have.
become to some extent centralized,
and in many parts of the country,
carnivals, concentrating the joy of the
season into brief time, feature.the sea-
son. •
Outstanding among these is Quebec
-quaint oId Quebec, with its narrow
streets, its towering churches, its old
world atmosphere and oontinental lei•
sure—which almost seems •to have
been created Solely as a locate for win-
ter sports. There the visiter can, Pass
rapi01Y. ,fronx ,pie sport, to another
within a !Imited''area-cluing?•'slkating,
tobogganing, .snoe5boeing, dog -sleigh-
ing, bob -sleighing and ski-joring. With-
out leaving the shadow of the great
hotel --Chateau Frontenac—one can
run the entire gauntlet of winter
sports.
Under a new .winter sport's director,
of European and American reputation,
as well as through the addition of
many improvements, Quebec antiei
pates the busiest and most pleasur-
able year it has yet experienced.
Night; and day the Chateau It'nontenac
and Dufferin Terrace will be the scene
of gay revels such as only the Cana-
dianclimate makes possible, This
winter Quebec winter sports will as-
sume . a national and international
character through competitions which
have been arranged in the various.
classes with individuals and teams
from the United States.
- Similar gaiety, in only less hilarious
form, isin evidence over the rest of
the Dominion. Montreal, in summer,
has become the Mecca of thousands of
tourists. It is at least equally attrac-
tive in the winter months, when its
peculiar location offers facilities for
the greatest variety and most enjoy-
able of winter pastimes. The great
Laurentian area,' a natural play-
ground winter and summer, offers, in
its countless mountains and lakes, op-
portunities for the more vigorous out -
o' -door pastimes,
The Province of British Columbia is
probably adapted to more ;diversifie
forme of agriculture than any otb,e
section of the Dominion. Whilst larg
areas are given,over to the ranchi
of cattle and horses, and -nixed an
grain farming are followed' extensiv
ly, the province has in particular mad
a name far itself in the production o
apples and other fruits, and at the r
cent Imperial Fruit Show at London
England, cleaned the board with i
pomologioal display. The dairy. 'in
dustry is making rapid strides andth
farming areas have the advantage 'o
proximity to the channels of expor
markets. Many • lesser and little know
forme of agriculture are .possible: '1
this province, such as tobacco an
nut growing, and the cultivation o
holly, ginseng and cascara.
Chief Adam. of the Denes, a 'tribe of Indians.that roam: the forests of
Athabasca' and Mackenzie,. present a strong argument in favor of living an
outdoor life. A healthy atmosphere seems to radiate from his picture.
At the other end of the continent the
little town of Banff in the Rockies
plays the host to winter holiday
makers and offers them seasonal sport
in a Iocation that cannot be surpassed
for primitive beauty. Banff is des-
tined to be for Western Canada what
Quebec is for the East. All winter
sports reach their zenith there, and.
tourists are coming to discover this
little mountain gem is as attractive
when she has assumed the white man-
tle of snow as when bedecked in gay
summer raiment.
Canadian winter sports have. to be
enjoyed but once to thoroughly con-
vert the sceptic to the peculiar joys
the season makes possible. In con-
sidering the severity of the Canadian
winter and its attendant ice and snow,
people are apt to forget that enthusi-
asts travel long distances and go to
considerable expense to indulge in the
winter sports of Norway and Switzer-
land. Canada, both in topography and
climate, is several Norways and Swit-
zerlands
wit
zeriands:rolled into one, and all the,
'seasonable pleasures of these countries
have been accentuated' and brought to
Perfection there.
PULP LP AND P •
PER
USTRY
OF
C
AN
ADS
ashe—
BIG INCREASES MADE IN
1924.
Substantial Order From Great
Britain Recently Received
by Canadian Company.
Newsprint' production in Canada,
which has for some time been slowly
but surely overtaking that of the
United States, made a big stride in
the first nine months of 1924, and at
the present time the Dominion is pro-
ducing at a rate but very little below
that of the Repablic. For the first
time on record in the period, news-
print production for the first nine
months of the year in 1924 exceeded
the million -ton mark, reaching 1,009,-
837 tone as .compared with 941,442
tons inthe corresponding period of
1923 an increase of 7 per cent. United.
States newsprint production in the
same period was 1,096,978 tons, as
compared. with 1,126,192 tons in the
first nine months of the preceding
year, a decrease of 3 per cent.
From 1920 the inorease in Canadian
newsprint production has been rapid
and steady except for the year 1921,
when there was a decrease of 80,345
tons as compared with the preceding
year, whilst in the United States the
movement has been irregular. For
the first nine months of 1924 produc-
tion in the United States has been 4
per cent, lower than in the .corres-
ponding period of 1920, whilst in Cana-
da the production has increased 53 per
cent.
For the first nine months of the cur•
rent' year the total exports of pulp and
paper from Canada were valued at
$103,050,333, compared with estate' of
$104,636,736 for the corresponding
nine months of 1923, a decrease of $1,-
586,403. This decreasein total vol-
ume is, however, rather pleasing than
otherwise, the exports of wood pulp
being responsible and there being an
increase of nearly $5,000,000 in the
value of paper exported. The total
value of paper exported in the nine-
inonth period was $74,270,296, in
which newsprint accounted for $68,-
003,040, as against $69,421,621 in the
same period of 1923, when newsprint
was responsible for $63,277,866.
Export Mechanical Pulp, Sulphite
and Pulpwood.
In the nine-month period of 1924
the value .tf export mechanical pulp
has been cut from more than 418,900,-
000 to leas than $5,000,000; that of
both bleached and unblec,•shed gul-
pbite by snare than 04000800 and; o
su1 ha
to
bypearly earl
y $1,000,000. ' In the
period
p , total - .export;,' of ul
:Valued
amounted, to"' 990,425 cords valued - at
$11,140,838,'as against 1,159,733, cords •
valued at 311,091,429 in the same peri -
Meanwhile the work of expanding
plants and erecting new ones is still
proceeding at a rapid rate feereshadow-
ing a tremendously increased produc-
tion for the future. Fort William is
to have a $3,000,000 pulp and paper
plant, one unit to be in operation in
ayear and the mill completed in two
years. The Thunder Bay plant at
Port Arthur has recently doubled its
capacity for the output of wood pulp.
A ninety -ton sulphite pulp plant is
being erected at Prince Rupert, At
Bear River, Nova Scotia, an old mill
has been rehabilitated, and new ma-
chinery installed, and there is proba-
bility of the establishment of a pulp
grinding mill at Liscomb in the same
province.
New Construction.
A new Mill is being erected at St.
Joseph d'Almo, Quebec, to have a pro-
duction of 200 tons of paper a -day by
January, 1926, and 600 tons by 1929.
The Western Quebec Paper Mills,
which has been in course of construc-
tion for a year, has commenced pro-
duction at East St, Andrews, Quebec,
and is manufacturing the higher class
of light weight papers. The Interna-
tional Paper Company at Three Rivers,
Quebec, is installing three new ma-
chines, and by October, 1925, will have
the greatest paper mill in the world ,
with an output of more than 600 tons
per day. Assurance is given of the
establishment of a large mill at St,
Boniface, Manitoba, to be supplied
from timber limits running along the
east side ofisLalte Winnipeg. The
agreement provides for the erection of
a mill costing not less than $2,000,000,
with a daily output of not less than,
100 tons of wood pulp, 50 tons of
which shall be made into paper at the
mill.
The Canadian Export '.Paper Com-
pany is`looking forward to a new field
opening in the British Isles for Cana-
dian newsprint, where imports of the
Canadian product in the past have
been largely negligible. A Canadian
newsprint company recently entered
into an agreement with the London
Daily Express to supply regular large
shipments of newsprint, The amount
covered is understood to be in the
neighborhood of 15,000 tons, which
covers a daily production of 50 tons.
It is thought that this may be the
first of many substantial orders to be
received from the British Isles.
Oranges puzzled Him,
Affable Stranger• --"If you had twelve
oranges, and I gave you one more, lrow
many oranges would you have?" •
13•oy---"I don't know, sir; we always
do our sans in apples,"
FARMING IN BRITISH'.
COLUMBIA
"1 province The average cost of partly
improved lands in the Okanagan Val-
ley,
al
ley, taking a wide range of figures and
including the chief settlements from
Armstrong south - down to the lake -at
Oliver, works out at $208 per acre.
To be as conservative as possible the
«d' University of British Columbia, which
made a recent survey of the valley in
connection with the yield from and
return of certain varieties of apples,
has taken $250 per acre as the basis
for its calculations, and finds the cost
oe the raw land under irrigation, with
cost of preparing, planting trees and
their care in the first year, with the
maintenance for the four successive
years, $616, or, if effected with money
borrowed at 7 per cent., $658.05. It is
r
e
ng
d
e -
e
f
e -
assumed in connection with the table,
that there is some revenue from the
land and from intercrops during the
time the trees are coming into hear -
n
n
d
The settler choosing British Colum
bia with the intention of living by t •
land has many channels for his epee
gies and can find one or more phases o
agriculture, to suit his taste. In ad
dit on the Provincial (overnmeut has
prepared a mase of information cal
culated to help the settler in his pre
liminary .considerations, and , ensur
his setttinu This act
iv out. on f P Vi�esun
deree
flee best atnspi s Sees
it may be, broadly accepted that 'e
greater the amount of capital pcdes-
sed by the settler on starting out the
morerapid and surewill be his sue -
cess.
Capital Required by Settlers..•
The minimum sum that Agricultueal,
Department officials recommend that,
a settler should bring with him to Bri-
tish Columbia is $4,000. Whilst this
sum should be sufficient for a man
with experience in various lines of
agriculture who would be able to
make a part payment' on his land, erect
modest buildings and purchase a cer-
tain amount of stock and implements,.
is would scarcely be found sufficient
for settlers without experience unless
there was a prospect of obtaining cer-
tain revenues from seasonal employ-
ment, or from the operation ref clear-
ing bush land in the form of market-
ing cordwood, pulpwood, eir the supply
of railway ties.-
The
ies.The Provincial Gvernment has been
at some pains to determine the cost of
establishing an apple ordhard in the
Acreage Required for Reasonable
Living.
The question is often asked as to
I the number, of acres required. to make
a reasonable living in British Colum-
-' bia, and this is difficult to answer ow-
e ing to the varying climatic and physi-
cal conditions encountered in the pro-
f vicee. On Vancouver Island and the
Lower Marland Coast, adjacent to the'
larger centres of population, holdings
- of from 3 to 10 acres, cultivated inter-
- lively, producing truck crops, small
s nd. poultry, are found sufficient,
in, te• kanagan and Kootenay' dis-
t
tri�C orchards man •
y average around
10 acres ' in extent; successful dairy
farms in the Lower Fraser Valley will
be found averaging from 75 to 160
acres• whilst in the interior stock
raising districts of Nicola, Lilloet, and
Cariboo, ranches will be feund of from
one section (640 acres). to several sec-
tions, with grazing privileges in addi-
tion.
Owing to the general intensity of
farming in the Pacific Coast province,
farm land values are higher there than
elsewhere ---in the Dominion, the Last
Federal Government return placing
the -average at $100 per acre. Of ail
the farms in British Columbia, num-
bering at the last census 21,793, 12,585
are less than 50 acres 2,233 between 50 s
ancI 100 acres, 4,668 between 100 and o
200acres, and 2 287 over 200 acresI
.
The, British Columbia Government es-
timates
n
7.4 per cent of all farms as
being under 5 acres; 19.7 per cent. t
between 5 and 10 acres; 30.2 between
11 anti 50 acres; 10.2 between 50 and o
100 acres.; 21.2 between 100 and 200
acres; and 11.3 200 acres and over,
t
TSE t�OR1�? FROM ABOVE
Someone has said that the ends.
preeious thing in the universe is
""Time,". for God measures it Out See,
end;bz" .Second :and no two seconds oc-
cur simultaneously, Throughout as
the ages men have been possessed
with a certain divine discontent with
their means of annihilating space and
time, they have striven to lengthen
their days; to devise methods by which
they may transport themselves and
their possessions more quickly from
place to place. Walking and running
proved too slow' and irksome so pre-
historic man harnessed the reindeer
and the horse; with oars and sails
his boats propelled over the water;
railroad trains, steamships, and, later,
the automobile, catered to his desire
for more and more speed. Those of
us whose memories are long enough to
span only a score of years can easily
remember the beginning of man's
latest attempt to achieve the conquest
of the air. And to -day be can literally
look down upon the world from above,
and in aircraft can surpass birds in
flight, can travel faster than in any
other vehicle which he has invented.
That there are comparatively few
casualties suffered by the Air Mail is
marked evidence of the safety with
which a well -designated' air route, one
along which there are enough land-'
ing fields, may be traversed. Those
Air Mail pilots flew over two million
miles without a single fatality. On
the British and Dutch air lines during
the past three years the average num-
ber of passenger air miles per passen- 1
ger fatality was 2,663,000. Prior to
1913 for a number of years there was �
an average of one passenger casualty
on our railroads for every two million'
passenger miles. Military flying is, of
course, more dangerous than ordinary'
commercial air travel. And yet it is ,
gratifying to state that our fatality
rate in the Air Service measured by 1
Meet
aircraft flying hours, or by th0 nuree
her of miles frown, is itarkesriy lest
than It was even three years ago. That,
ail travel , -will be matte more and mors
safe as time pee on thererseerna to be
no' reason to doubt,
In fact it is believed Gonclusfve
dense ..already exists that air travel
under proper conditions can be:con-
ducted with a degree at regularity,
safety and dispatch .sufficient to es-
tablish it' as a significant .additional
channel of commerce in the transpor-
tation resources of a nation, Air
transportation has passed the experi-
xnental stage. The knowledge gained
during the past six years in the opera-
tion of regular air transportation. ser-
vices, particularly in Europe, has
demonstrated incontestably that air-
craft as agents of commerce have "ar-
rived."
As one goes higher, and looks down
upon the World from Above, whether
from a height reached in an airplane
or from the top of the business ladder,
the air is rarer and left far behind are
the companions of . lower levels. But
there are compensations, The view
is broader and the mind is more at-
tuned to grasp its meaning.
With better means of transportation
comes better understanding among
men and among nations. Aircraft, ter-
rific engines of war, may do much to
promote the peace of the world. Again,
improved methods of communication
bridge the space between invention
and general usage. Aircraft are thus
at the same time a cause and an ef-
fect. The rapid development of aero-
nautics stimulated the imagination,
provoked hope and brought about its
realization. The present generation
has dreamed, has imagined, but it bas
also made practical the conception of
utilizing the great air spaces. Their
hitherto mystery is a mystery no
onger.
FIRST CHINCHILLA
RABBIT FAR
• ders were received from other parts
of the Dominion. The price received •
for plts has been from $3.50 to $5 ac-
cording to the quality, and $24 a
al dozen has been offered for baby pelts
taken from five weeks' old rabbits.
- Mr. Jennings believes that this in-
dustry, followed as a side line, will
give Canadian farmers excellent re-
turns, and may especially be profitably
followed in conjunction with fox ranch-
ing, as most fox ranchers keep rale
bits to provide meat for their foxes,
The time the animals require for at-
tention
t
tention is comparatively negligible,
and the Chinchilla rabbit fur 'is com-
e:
om
e : ing into greater -favor every day. This
al I first ranch of its kind 1s a notable as
n-, well as a novel addition to Canada's
d, varied fur farms.
ed • --ie.- I
ea War Badges Await .Iai>nraaiirs..
f a AA total+of_ 166030 far bada'es for •
•
g service in the World War are stili.beg-
aes ging in this Dominion, according to,.
- ( information from the ' Department of
an
e Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment. Of
these 85,301 are British war medals
and 50,503 are 'Victory medals, and they
, , are to be had by their rightful owners
0 ; simply for the asking.,
_ I "The delay in distributing these
j awards," says an official of the depart-
t I ment, "is due entirely to the fact that
the addresses of the recipients are not
, available at National Defense head-
quarters. Since the beginning of the
' issuance of the awards for war ser -
ivice the D.S.C.R„ to date, has dis-
tributed 964,535 medals, decorations
and commemorative seholls."
i There remain on hand in the same
! department 791 estates of deceased
members of the Canadian Expedition-
ary Forces in which the total funds
amount to $144,169.79. The distribu-
tion of the majority of these estates is
Idelayed mainly through the fact that
the beneficiaries reside in countries
Iwhere communication is limited, or
. where it has been impossible to locate
i them at the addresses in file at Na-
tional Defense headquarters. There
also remain 228 trust shares, amount-
ing to $25,917.74, These funds are be-
ing held in trust for minor beneficiar-
ies.
A. total of 51,673 deaths have been
recorded in the theatre of war. Of
this number 37,607 graves definitely
have been registered to date. This
latter figure, though, is subject to al-
most daily revision, because graves
are constantly being located by offi-
ciate of the Imperial War Craves Com-
mission in the various war theatres.
It. is estimated, however, that it will
be ter eesary to inscribe the names of
about. 14,000 on memorials to the
"misat;f;" which are being erected at
Menin -;ate and Vimy ridge. in addi-
tion too the above there are 3,463
graves of Canadians in the United
Kingdom, In Canada alone 11,523
deaths have been reported. Of this
lumber 5,942 have been accepted de-
finitely as attributable to war service.
GEO.( �JEN�NIN/G�gS� OF SCORp
TON RANCH, SASK.
Novel Additions to Canada's
Varied Fur Farms Offers
Excellent Prospects.
Canada continues to assert th
priority of her position as the re
home of the domestic fur -farming 1
dustry, which she initiated an
through foundation stock, suppii
from, her first ranches, spread •eve
the world
through ro h' manyeountri
t
g
which are making progrQ ,s, in,,,;
direction. The Donillnan,°1s provin
herself adaptable to the domestic red
ing of every kind of fur -bearing a
mal and 'branching out contivally i
novel and hitherto-unthouglit-,of lines
The last return of. the fur farming in
dustry by the Dominion Government
in addition to showing a considerabl
expansion along established lines, re
corded, for the first time, a Canadian
coyote ranch and a Chinchilla rabbi
farm.
George Jennings, a Yorkshireman
of the Scorton Ranch, Fort Qu'Appeile
Saskatchewan, has the distinction of
being the first individual in Canada
to take up the breeding of the Chin
chilla rabbit, recognized as a perfect
ubstitute for the ram Chinchilla
quirrel, and to have made a success
f it in a few years. It has opened up
ew and profitable possibilities in the
fur -farming industry of Canada and
has added in no small way to the pres-
ige the industry enjoys.
The Chinchilla squirrel is a native
f the mountains of Peru and Bolivia,
and it has always been difficult to ob-
ain on account of its habits of deep
urrowing. There was, nevertheless,
voluminous export of skins to Eur -
pe, where they were much prized, and
o offset possibilities of extinction the
eruvian and Bolivian Governments
ave put a ban on the exportation of
le animal or the pelt.
A New Breed of Rabbits.
The high regard for these pelts and
the relatively small supply available
has resulted in a good deal of re-
search for a substitute, and after ex-
eriments extending over a number of
ears French rabbit breeders were.
tccessful in producing a breed of
abbits whose fur i such a close imi-
---AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME
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teflon of the Chinchilla squirrel that
lit defies detection by an expert, Not
only is the fur of the Chinchilla rab-
bit beautiful, but the bide is remark-
tably thick, thicker, it is stated, than
any other animal of its size. Chin-
chilla rabbit pelts were first put on
the London market as recently as
1919 and caused something of a sou-
sation,
When Mr, Jennings broughtthe first
rabbits from England to Saskatche-
wan three years ago, the only ques-
tion was bow them. • "ittle nnimals
would stand the Western clfnlete. Any
apprehensions on this ecore were
speedily settled and the animals
throve. Running et liberty they will'
stand .the severest cold, and require
only feediug a little hay or green
sheaves e �'nonl3,
The didiinethnity expinfei'erie�ucttiui in tier'
three years has been to seenre.enough
stock le supply the demand, aucl for
over a year Mr, Jennings has been
booked with orders for two or three
months ahead. Nearly all dementia
have come front the United States,
though in the past twelve months or -
1
And They'd Land Without Doubt.
"You think there'd be a real danger
in the rum runners should we go to
;car?"
"Well. 1 should rayl 'Pliey might,
be hired to command the energy's
warships, you know."
Never leavv a spoon in the sauc-opan
if you wish its contents to boil quickly,