And an English writer, commenting on these lines, has expressed himself in terms with which, I am sure, the great majority of the people of Canada agree:-"So it must be with all Canadians. Their hearts, differ as men may on political or social or religious questions, are true to their North-Land—a land of great rivers and inland seas, of illimitable prairies and lofty mountains, of rich sea-pastures and luxuriant wheatfields-a land of free government and free speech-a goodly heritage with which they can never part to a foreign Power."

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SOME OF THE CHIEF POINTS TO BE

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REGINA

EGINA is the capital of the Province of Saskatchewan, and is situated on the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, three hundred and fifty miles west of Winnipeg. As capital of the province it is the seat of government. Here the Legislative Assembly meets, and all the Departmental and Executive Offices are situated. In Regina also are the headquarters of `the Royal North-West Mounted Police, and the seat of the Supreme Court of the province.

Regina is the centre of the most famous wheat growing district of Saskatchewan. The country in all directions is level prairie, with the exception of a district some nine or ten miles away in a north-easterly direction where the land is somewhat rolling and there is a growth of small poplar trees.

In 1908, the total yield of all grains in crop districts 1, 2, 4 and 5, an area 264 miles square, of which Regina is practically the centre, was 93,134,482 bushels, and the total acreage under cultivation 5,250,857 acres. From the other five districts which comprise the rest of the province, each district being of an equal area, the total yield of all grains was 12.859.,932 bushels, and the total acreage under cultivation 721,444 acres.

Regina, itself on the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, is also the terminus of the same Company's line from Arcola, which is continued through to Brandon, a line tapping a very rich and well-settled country to the south-east. The Canadian Pacific Railway has also

under course of construction a line running in a northerly direction from Regina to connect with their Pheasant Hills' line at a point at or near Bulyea. It is expected that this will be completed early in the present season. This gives easy access to Last Mountain Lake, a beautiful sheet of water some sixty miles long, the foot of which is distant only twenty-five miles from the city; this will undoubtedly become a very popular summer resort for the citizens of Regina.

Regina is the southern terminus of the Canadian Pacific Northern Railway Company's line from Prince Albert, and is also the terminus of the same Company's line from Brandon. When continued through to the. Great Lakes, this will give Regina the benefit of a competitive road through to the head of navigation.

The Grand Trunk Pacific Branch Lines' Company hold a charter for a line running from Regina to Melville, a divisional point on the main line of their great transcontinental railroad, about ninety miles northeast of Regina. This line will be continued to Yorkton, and is one of those for the construction of which the bonds of the Company were guaranteed by the Provincial Government at the last session. It is hoped that it will be completed this year. As soon as this line is completed, work will be commenced on the same Company's line in a south-easterly direction, for which the charter reads: "In a south-easterly direction from Regina to a point on the International Boundary at or near North Portal.'' Charters for many other lines are held by various Companies. Regina will almost certainly become the great distributing centre of the middle West.

The citizens of Regina have always been firm believers in the principle of municipal ownership, and the city owns and controls the electric light plant and the water works system. The electric light plant not only