A TRIP TO MANITOBA

BY

MARY FITZGIBBON.



"Manitoba, the great province which now forms part of the Canadian
Dominion"

The Rt. Hon. W. E. GLADSTONE, MP at West Calder.



DEDICATED TO LADY DUFFERIN.



PREFATORY NOTE.

The Canada Pacific Railway, so frequently referred to in the following
pages, is now almost an accomplished fact. It will, after traversing for
over a thousand miles the great prairies of the Swan River and
Saskatchewan territories, thread the Rocky Mountains and, running through
British Columbia to Vancouver's Island, unite the Pacific with the
Atlantic. Of the value of this line to the Dominion and the mother
country there cannot be two opinions. The system of granting plots of
land on each side of the railway to the Company, with power to re-sell or
give them to settlers, has been found most advantageous in, as it were,