Identifier: conciseschoolatl00cana (find matches)
Title: Concise school atlas of the Dominion of Canada : historical and physical features of provinces, districts, and territories of the Dominion
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Canada. Dept. of the Interior
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Publisher: Ottawa : (Ministry of the Interior)
Contributing Library: The University of Western Ontario, Western Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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cutive Council of 5 members; LegislativeAssembly consists of a single chamber of 40members. Province represented in DominionParliament by 4 Senators and 7 Representatives. Northwest Territories. Historical. — Territorj- tributary to HudsonBay, formerly known as Ruperts Land, grantedto Hudsons Baj Company 1670; North WestCompany chartered 1783; two companies united1821. Fort Selkirk established 1848. RupertsLand re-acquired by the Crown and togetherwith the North-Western Territory, included inthe Dominion 1869. Province of Manitoba set apart from Territories 1870 and Keewatin Dis-trict created 1876. Gold discovered on StewartRiver 1885; Klondike discoveries 1896-7. Pro-visional districts of Assiniboia. Saskatchewan,Alberta, and Athabasca formed 1882; Yukon,Ungava, Mackenzie, and Franklin 1895; Yukonmade separate territory under Commissioner byCanadian Parliament 1898. Within the leadingdistricts over 1,700 miles of railway in operation.Area. — Athabasca, 251,300 stiuare miles; Sas-
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28 NORTHWEST TERRITORIES. katchewan. 114,000; Alberta. 100,000; Assiniboia,90.340; Yukon, 198,300. Ungava,Mackenzie, andFranklin about 1,019,200 square miles. Physical Features. — Rocky Mountains inextreme west; Southern portion generally level,lan>ls mainly prairie; eastern extremely uneven,large portion occupied b) Hudsons Bay. Nu-merous large lakes a prominent feature; GreatBear. Great Slave, and Athabasca lakes thelargest. Two great river systems, one draininginto Arctic Ocean, the other into Hudsons Bay..Mackenzie the great Arctic river; Churchill,Nel.son, and Severn tril)utaries of Hudsons Bay.The Saskatchewan with its branches, one ofWestern Canadas largest rivers, drains a largearea, crossing the country from west to east. Climate ranges from comparatively mild win-ters and hot. drv summers of Alberta to rigorous wheat crop, 2,784,390 bushels; oats, 2,404.442;barley, 379.399; potatoes, 471,411; 1899, culti-vated land 515,826; wheat. 6.946.997 bushels;oats, 4.740.993; barl

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