LIFE IN CANADA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 15 May 1907, Page 4

LIFE IN CANADA.

-Mi Tims. Sutton, ol' Jtongolea. lias received from his son Siiluev, the follow in- letter which is hardly likely to in (luce any of our settlers to go to (.'an iula:

"Dear fallier.—ll is some time since J heard from you, so thought L would drop you a few lines io let you know how things arc in this country. We are having an awful rough winter here, the deepest snow for some years and severe cold a week at a time, with snow storms ami blizzards and 30 below zero. The cattle in theAlberla country are .lying in thousands with the cold and wniit of feed, and the railroads arc blocked everywhere. At times we are a week without mails. The (rains are being wrecked trying to ggetlhrough. There is awful suifcring all over the country. There have been lots of homesteaders

■end frozen Io death end I expect there v.ill be lots more found in the spring v.bcn lie- police can get around. It is

certainly hardships in this count,-/ in the winter, but I hope 1 will not 'have any more to put in. 1 am doing my lot to gel out ~f it, bill ! can't tell when it will .nine. 1 am gel the- lir-l of this climate, .\ye.ir or'iwo will lix any man if he stay's with it. If a inaa slays few winters and sees the hardship., in thi.s eouiiiry hi the winterxz;i xz;i it will break his heart. 1 saw a man with his both legs ami both arms and nose frozen black, lie had Io have i hem broken oii. and fixed up in the best way li« could, and it was a ierible si-hl Io se the way he suffered. There hive been i men building an elevator at a new town norlh of here this winter and there is not one man in the bunch that has no; had some part of l,i„ l„„lv frozen. 1! i, no white man's eounlrv i!,:.!"-. vnre There will be 1,,-avv Hoods I his ~,ri,c such heavy snow. .M-.ni-„l.;,. f suli'cring badly for want of fuel, but il iimp roving now. Lately in parts lb.people lure ihmnlhcir hums to burn to keep from freezing, and thev burnl straw in the hotels, lint if the spriim- is anyway deceat here U,,.,-,, dlouhU.-.- yood. ir-ps. Thi- i, a. drv oart. ami 'can

sum.! !„(-> ~r wal;T. 'l il'.ipe ! ,|„n-( 1,., v 1., stay IW any in.uv imps, I iUII lull up nl' here mid iri'tinu "id c.'iils a bushel fur wheal after liaulin-- if 11 miles.'