Report in Reference to the Canadian Pacific RailwayMaclean Roger & Company, 1879 - 142 pages |
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abundant alluvial aspen Assiniboine Athabasca banks Banksian pine Battle River Battleford birch boulders Bow River CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY Capt Carlton clay clumps contract Côteau covered Creek crossed Cypress Hills distance Dominion Lands east Edmonton entered this section fair soil feet deep feet high flats forest Forks Fort Ellice Fort Macleod Fort William fresh water grass gravelly Henry A. F. MacLeod hilly Hind's Lac la Biche Lake Nipissing latitude loam Macoun Geol marshes producing Meridian north-east north-west north-westerly northern Pacific Railway Palliser Expedition partially wooded passed pasturage pasture Peace River Pembina plain plateau ponds poplar producing good hay Qu'Appelle Red Deer River reliable known rich ridges Rocky Mountains sandy Selkirk Selwyn Geol side small lakes Smoky River Souris South Branch South Saskatchewan south-east south-west southern portion spruce stream surface swamps tamarac thence timber Touchwood Hills trail travelled undulating vegetation westerly western westward willow
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Page 107 - Such an explosion or dilatation of a line of fluid, passing through a card, would raise burrs around the hole, sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and sometimes on both, according to the disposition of the part of the paper near the surface, without any regard to the direction of the fluid. 15. Great thanks are due to the ingenious philosopher who examined the vane at Cremona, and who took the pains to describe so exactly the effects of the lightning upon it, and...
Page 114 - One hundred and twenty miles west of Turtle Mountain, the second prairie plateau comes to an end against the. foot of the great belt of drift deposits, known as the Missouri Coteau.
Page 54 - Islands," and many others ; they are all alluvial deposits, and some of them are overflowed in spring. The banks of the river are now quite low, and the country on either side is very flat ; but it still continues well adapted for agricultural purposes and settlement, the soil being a rich alluvial loam of a considerable depth, well watered and drained by many fine creeks, and clothed with abundance of timber for fuel, fencing, and building.
Page 46 - ... boulders lie in lines among the trees near the shore. They have been thrust up, many of them very recently, by the pressure of the ice, since the channel is too narrow for the wind to raise waves powerful enough to move such stones." The granite and gneiss which form the east shore of Lake Winipeg strike off at its north-east corner, and, passing to the north of Moose Lake, go on to Beaver Lake, where the canoe-route again touches upon them. At some distance to the westward of them the Saskatchewan,...
Page 25 - Region hat> been arbitrarily defined in previous reports as extending from the eastern boundary of British Columbia to a line drawn northerly and southerly from Lake Winnipeg. This great central area of Canada is not all prairie, but a considerable portion of it, especially towards the south, is of a prairie character ; in other parts much of the Territory consists of woodland. It is, however, held convenient to retain for the whole extent the term of
Page 78 - To the north of this line generally there is timber, a good soil for agricultural purposes up to 54° north latitude, and superior pasturage ; to the south there is no timber, the soil is sandy, with little or no admixture of earthy matter, and the pasture is inferior. Exceptions of course may be found, as for example in the neighbourhood of swamps and gullies, where the soil and pasture are...
Page 67 - From its summit an undulating open country, dotted with lakes and flunked by the Birch Hills is visible towards the east. South and south-west is a lake region, also north and north-east. These lakes are numerous and large, often three miles long and two broad. Seventeen large lakes can be counted from the Lumpy Hill ; hill ranges in several directions can also be discerned.
Page 61 - River, there exists a vast cold field covering an area of not less than 25,000 square miles ; and beneath a large portion of this area we may expect to find workable seams of coal at depths seldom exceeding 300 feet, and often, as in the case of the thick seams above described, very favorably situated for working by levels from the surface.
Page 26 - Eeport, is intended *o present in a concise form all the leading facts found on record, respecting ^tlie physical characteristics of this Territory. EXPLANATORY NOTE. The whole Territory is divided into sections, each section one degree of Longitude in breadth by one degree of Latitude in length. The numerals in the margin, in a fractional form, thus -^indicate the particular section in each case.
Page 52 - The mainland and islands are well wooded with balsam, spruce, birch, poplar, tamarac, cedar and Banksian pine, but a considerable portion of the land is reported to be swampy and unavailable for agricultural purposes.