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Canadian provinces they lay / Divided by river and by bay, / Many a separate division, / Among them there was no cohesion.
But statesmen saw that a great nation / Could be formed by federation, / And soon they led public opinion / To favor forming this Dominion.
Northwest with its streams and fountains, / With sources in the Rocky Mountains, / It was all a great mystery, / Hunting for furs its history.
Though Northwest is filling slow / Yet soon there will be mighty flow, / Millions to Northwest will hurry / In last decade of century.
For therein is an opening grand / In great fertile prairie land, / For there the choicest wheat it grows / Near where the Saskatchewan flows.
And on many a river's branch / There is found great grazing ranch, / Favoured districts therein abound / Where cattle graze all the year round.
Protected from the stormy blast / By the Rocky Mountains vast, / Through canon blows no storm terrific, / But balmy breezes from Pacific.