An American writer travels across Canada on the eve of the First World War, from Quebec and the Maritime region through Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto, to the summer resorts, the Cobalt silver mines, Winnipeg and Edmonton, and along the new Grand Trunk Pacific railway to Prince Rupert and Alaska. Along the way she considers Canada’s poets and the creative forces shaping the young nation.
An enthusiastic travel portrait of Canada in 1917, dedicated to a railway president lost on the Titanic. Download the free EPUB.