CANADA

THE SPELLBINDER

LILIAN WHITING

WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS
IN COLOUR AND MONOTONE

LONDON & TORONTO
J. M. DENT & SONS LTD.
MCMXVII

CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS

whose foresight and energy, whose courage and genius lifted Canada's pioneer railway to a very high level of service and success; extended its operations from the Atlantic to the Pacific; opened thousands of miles of new scenic beauties and prepared a region which will ere long become a vital centre of population and strength to the British Empire; and whose passing to the larger and more significant activities of "the life more abundant" (by the tragic wreck of the s.s. Titanic, April 15, 1912) has left an unforgettable breach in the official family of the Grand Trunk System, an irreparable loss to his associates, to whom he was a beloved, constant, and forceful inspiration—this effort to interpret something of the romantic charm and richness of the resources of the Dominion is inscribed by

LILIAN WHITING.

"The shadow of his loss drew like eclipse
Darkening the world. We have lost him; he is gone;
We know him now; all narrow jealousies
Are silent; and we see him as he moved,
How modest, kindly, all-accomplished, wise,
With what sublime repression of himself."
TENNYSON.

CONTENTS

CHAP.

I. The Creative Forces of Canada

II. Quebec and the Picturesque Maritime Region

III. Montreal and Ottawa

IV. Toronto the Beautiful

V. The Canadian Summer Resorts

VI. Cobalt and the Silver Mines

VII. Winnipeg and Edmonton

VIII. On the Grand Trunk Pacific

IX. Prince Rupert and Alaska

X. Prince Rupert to Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, and the Golden Gate