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They reached it at the Murchisons' gate, and there they paused, as briefly as possible, since pause was torture, and he told her what he could not tell her before. "I have accepted the charge of the White Water Mission Station in Alberta," he said. "I, too, learned very soon after I left you what was possible and what was not. I go as soon as things can be set in order here.
Ontario and Alberta soon fell to their prowess, and it was thought that the same result would happen in the Dominion arena.
Of Canada's thirty-four million dollars' worth of fish in 1912, one and one-half million dollars' worth came from the three prairie provinces. Under the old boundaries, the three prairie provinces compared in area respectively Manitoba with Great Britain; Saskatchewan with France; Alberta, one and a half times larger than Germany.
"Most of them," says she. "Two of my brothers are up at Glen Bow, raising sheep; one of my sisters is at Alberta, giving piano lessons; and another sister is doing church singing in Moose Jaw. If I had stayed at home I would be doing something like that. We are a musical family, you know.
What was her duty this splendid girl would do, whether in Flanders or in Alberta. At the door of their home the mother met them. As her eyes fell upon her son in his khaki uniform she gave a little cry and ran to him with arms uplifted. "Come right in here," she whispered, and took him to the inner room. There she drew him to the bedside and down upon his knees.
With the help of Moosetooth and La Biche and a few half-breeds, the considerable baggage of the party was dumped out onto the sand of the new roadway and then, all joining in the task, it was carried across the street to the new Alberta Hotel.
Now I am informed that in Alberta, and some places in California, they do not go to the expense of leveling land, but use a system of preparing land for irrigation at a cost of about 60 cents per acre. Nothing except a highly educated gale of wind, with discriminating cutting and filling ability of a very high order, could do it for that price.
The exiles are still mooching around on the pavement and the shuffling one stands on the curb staring dully at the street under him. "Section hands, Alberta, Canada, transportation," says the new bulletin. There is no stir among the exiles. This is to the north. It is still cold in the north. But the shuffling one has turned. His eyes again trace the crudely chalked letters of the bulletin board.
Luckily Father Burrowes came back the following week, and Mark's deepening impression of the monastery's futility was temporarily obliterated by the exciting news that the Bishop of Alberta whom the brethren were taught to reverence as a second founder would be the guest of the Order on St. Lawrence's day and attend the profession of Brother Anselm.
WYOMING: Whooping crane, trumpeter swan, wood-duck; mountain goat. ALBERTA: Passenger pigeon, whooping crane; bison. BRITISH COLUMBIA: A. Bryan Williams reports: "Do not know of any birds having become extinct." MANITOBA: Pigeon; bison, antelope, gray wolf. NEW BRUNSWICK: Pigeon. NOVA SCOTIA: Labrador duck, Eskimo curlew, passenger pigeon. ONTARIO: Wild turkey, pigeon, Eskimo curlew.
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