LIFE IN CANADA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8804, 4 May 1907, Page 3

LIFE IN CANADA.

Mr Thos. Sutton, of Eongotea, has received from his son Sidney, the following letter which is certainly not likely to induce any of'our settlers to go to Canada:—

Dear Father.—lt is some time, since I heard from you, so thought I would drop you a few lines to let you know how things are in this country. We are having an awful rough winter here, the deepest snow for some year 3 £.nd severe cold a week at the time with Bnow storms and blizzards and 30 below zero. The cattle in the Alberta country are dying in thousands with the cold and want of feed, and the railroads are blocked everywhere. At times we are a week without mails. Tho train are being wrecked trying to get through. There is awful suffering all over the country. There have been lots of homesteaders found frozen to death and I expect there will be lots more found in the spring when the police can get around. It is certainly hardships in this country in the winter, but I hope I will not have many more to put inv lam doing my best to got out of it, but I can't tell when it will come. I am getting dead tired of this climate. A year or two will fix any man if he stays with it. If a man stays a few winters and sees the hardships it will break his heart. I saw a man with ihis both kgs and both- arms and nose frozen black. He had to have thorn broken off and be fixed up the best way he could and it was terrible to see the way he suffered. There have been 22 men building an elevator at a new town north of here this winter and there is not one man in the bunch that has not had some part of his body frozen It is no white man's country, that's sure. There will be big floods this spring after such heavy snow. Manitoba is suffering badly for the want of fuel, but it is improving now. Lately in parts the people tore down their barns to burn to keep from freezing, and they burnt straw in. the hotels. But if the spring is anyway decent hero there should be good crops. This is a dry part and can stand lots of water. I hope I don't have to stay for any more crops, I am full up of cropping hero and getting 50 'cents a bushel for wheat after hauling it 12 miles.