CONTENTS
CHAPTER I — THE CITY ON THE PLAIN
CHAPTER II — WHERE EAST MEETS WEST
CHAPTER III — THE MARRIAGE OF ANKA
CHAPTER IV — THE UNBIDDEN GUEST
CHAPTER V — THE PATRIOT'S HEART
CHAPTER VI — THE GRIP OF BRITISH LAW
CHAPTER VIII — THE PRICE OF VENGEANCE
CHAPTER IX — BROTHER AND SISTER
CHAPTER X — JACK FRENCH OF THE NIGHT HAWK RANCH
CHAPTER XI — THE EDMONTON TRAIL
CHAPTER XII — THE MAKING OF A MAN
CHAPTER XV — THE MAIDEN OF THE BROWN HAIR
CHAPTER XVI — HOW KALMAN FOUND HIS MINE
CHAPTER XVII — THE FIGHT FOR THE MINE
CHAPTER XVIII — FOR FREEDOM AND FOR LOVE
In Western Canada there is to be seen to-day that most fascinating of all human phenomena, the making of a nation. Out of breeds diverse in traditions, in ideals, in speech, and in manner of life, Saxon and Slav, Teuton, Celt and Gaul, one people is being made. The blood strains of great races will mingle in the blood of a race greater than the greatest of them all.
It would be our wisdom to grip these peoples to us with living hooks of justice and charity till all lines of national cleavage disappear, and in the Entity of our Canadian national life, and in the Unity of our world-wide Empire, we fuse into a people whose strength will endure the slow shock of time for the honour of our name, for the good of mankind, and for the glory of Almighty God.
C.W.G. Winnipeg, Canada, 1909.
Not far from the centre of the American Continent, midway between the oceans east and west, midway between the Gulf and the Arctic Sea, on the rim of a plain, snow swept in winter, flower decked in summer, but, whether in winter or in summer, beautiful in its sunlit glory, stands Winnipeg, the cosmopolitan capital of the