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The company kept upper Canadian farmers from migrating to the Prairies by depicting a sub-Arctic wasteland, but British surveyors found the valleys of the Saskatchewan, Assiniboine, and Red rivers to be fertile and ideal for agriculture.
For these great hunters of the Rocky Mountain foothills and prairies, wild game included grizzly and black bear, antelope, deer, elk, wild sheep, and goats, but the only “real meat” was buffalo.
Against all the experts’ advice, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company’s general manager, William Cornelius Van Horne, built tracks around Lake Superior and west across the Prairies to meet Andrew Onderdonk’s Chinese laborers working their way east through Kicking Horse Pass in the Rockies.
You can see the monuments right across the Prairies — huge cathedral-like grain elevators.
Driving east from Vancouver on the Trans-Canada Highway and following the Fraser River north to its tributary, the Thompson, you are backtracking along the great exploration route traced by intrepid fur traders from the prairies to the Pacific.
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