Illustrated guide, gazetteer, and practical hand-book for Manitoba and the North-west, 1883, with the latest official maps, land regulations, etc.

Athaba?ca." The Peace River is navigable from the Rocky Mountains for at least 500 miles by river, in none of this distance is it less than six feet deep.A canal of two miles would overcome the obstructions at this point.For 250 miles below this there is no obstruction except a rapid, which, I think, is caused by boulders in the channel.Their removal would probably overcome the difficulty. "The Athabasca is navigable for 180 miles above Lake Athabasca.Between Lake Athabasca and the Arctic Ocean only one break exists, buc this is fourteen miles across by land after that is overcome, 1,300 miles of first-class river navigation is met with, which takes U3 to the Arctic Ocean."GAME." The moose is still abundant on both sides of Peace River, and the wood buffalo is still found between the Athabasca and the Peace River, about latitude 57 deg.From 500 to 1,000 head is the estimate of the hunter.Black bears arc very numerous on the upper part of Peace River, and furnish the chief food of the people in July and Augu:-t.Cariboo are north and east of Lake Athabasca, and are the chief food of the Indians and halt-breeds of that region.Rabbits are in immense numbers wherever there is timber, and are easily taken.Railway Belt with the exception that the Pacific Railway Company offer a rebate of $1.25 (5s.stg) per acre within three or five years following the date of purchase, on condition of cultivation.The settler*', while building on the homesteads and making cultivation thereon, would be able, within the time mentioned, also to cultivate the whole, or the greater part of the Pacific Railway lands.A family of lour could in this way, in three years "obtain a large estate of 1,280 acres of probably the richest wheat growing land in the world, at a merely nominal price, and thus secure a position, not only of comparative, but of substantial wealth. Fanners with sons can with great advantage avail themselves of these conditions.Another instance is where two brothers might take up free homesteads and two quarter- sections of any Government lands, and pre-empt the remaining two quarter-sections, thus obtaining a whole section, or G-10 acres, for their homesteads and pre-emptions.They could then purchase the whole of each of the four adjoining odd-numbered sections of Pacific Rail- way lands, and thus obtain between them a large estate of 3,200 acres.The land policy of the Government of Canada, combined with the advantages offered by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, is the most liberal of any on the Continent of North America.

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