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Through Vancouver during this very period there passed only 750,000 bushels of wheat. Why not more? No facilities. "We could have shipped millions of bushels of wheat to Liverpool by way of Vancouver," said the head of one of the largest grain companies in Calgary, "but there were simply no facilities to take care of it.
The train was then exactly 97 hours since leaving Montreal, having travelled 2,180 miles, an average speed, including all stoppages and delays, of 22-1/2 miles an hour. "During the night of the 19th and the early morning of the 20th, the train ran through Calgary, at the foothills of the Atlantic slope of the Rocky Mountains; and at 5.30 on the 20th arrived at the summit of the Rocky Mountains.
Nolan of Calgary, was sentenced to be hanged. But the end was not yet. John Cashel, a brother from Wyoming, had come up and was given permission to see Ernest in the cell. As he entered the chaplain was leaving and the guard being relieved.
Winnipeg Regina Edmonton Calgary Saskatoon Vancouver. Decide on Delegates. Mode of selection, clerical, lay. It is very essential that a meeting of that kind should be thoroughly popular and representative. Decide on Speakers, Language. Decide on Programme. This is really the essential work of the organizing committee.
It was a woman, speaking out of the shadow, who said, what we all felt, 'You see, we just love our town, 'So do we, I said, and it slid behind us. The Prairie proper ends at Calgary, among the cattle-ranches, mills, breweries, and three million acre irrigation works.
"Mishtress Lee," began he, in wheedling, dulcet tones, "fwhat mornin' was that?" That lady, her capacious, matronly bosom heaving with emotion, eyed him suspiciously a moment. "Eh?" she snapped. "Why th' mornin' after th' night of racket between them two men at th' hotel. Th' feller come bummin' roun' th' back-door fur a hand-out all starved t' death just before I took th' train t' Calgary."
Unless they learn some way of mastering the difficulty, it means extermination for the Antelope of the north Saskatchewan. From Calgary we went by train to Edmonton. This is the point of leaving the railway, the beginning of hard travel, and here we waited a few days to gather together our various shipments of food and equipment, and to await notice that the river was open.
Then North Eagle spoke: "My father says you are brave, and must accept the plume of the brave. His heart turns to you. You do not speak loud to him." "All aboard for Calgary!" came the voice of the train conductor.
Parties for the Klondike, for California or Japan once the far East, but now the far West to us for anywhere and everywhere, a C.P.R. express train carrying the same variety of fortunates and unfortunates as the ocean-cleaving hull. Calgary was reached at one a.m. on the Queen's birthday, and the same morning we left for Edmonton by the C. & E. Railway.
With his twenty-five men, whom for the past year he had been polishing to a high state of efficiency in the trying work of police-duty in the railway construction-camp, he arrived in Calgary on the evening of the tenth of April, to find that post throbbing with military ardor and thrilling with rumors of massacres and sieges, of marching columns and contending forces.
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