OLD TIMES IN CANADA.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 458, 17 March 1909, Page 3

OLD TIMES IN CANADA.

It is only tho old-timer who can truly realiso the enormous difference in Western Canada brought about by railroad construc■tion and railroad enterprise! Such an oldtimor is Mr. Haytcr Reed, now mana«er-in-ehief of the C.P.U, hotels, who. thirty years ago, was ono of 300 men dispatched in chase of Louis Kiel, tho famous half-breed rebel. Iho description of this chase was read tho other day by Mr. Reed to a literary society m Montreal; how they forced their boat's Jul'r , tho brok6n ice of Lako H "f°n till the blades of the oars were worn away, and spades and shovels had to be used insteadhow they had to land on tho ice and trudeo' wearily until at last in rags and tatters, they canm to Fort Garry. Mr. Reed was t.ien appointed Indian Commissioner, and marshalled tho great army of Sioux Chippewas, and Six Nations for the great migration to the reservations of tho north. Ho lias ived to sec the once desolate prairies populous with white men, civilised by tho great roads of steel; and where- tho wigwams lined tho trail at Winnipc ho now controls a palatial caravanserai, tho. Roval Alexandra—what Kipling has called "the first hotel in the worj.-.1," and yotonly one ° f ?, great series linking Atlantic with I aoific—"Standard of Empire"