The Hillman Stereoview Archive 3-D Images of Canada's Early Years THE PRAIRIES

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Stereoview of Ackerman Brothers ~ Rosser Avenue, Brandon

Modern Harvester ~ 1902

Bank of Montreal at Portage and Main,, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Manitoba Stone Arch in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Parliament Buildings, Regina

Boys from the US visit the RCMP/NWMP HQ in Alberta

Winnipeg Looking West

Description on the Back of the Card You are looking west. Montreal is nearly 1500 miles away behind you and Vancouver is at about the same distance straight ahead, away beyond these enormous open plains of the REd River Valley and beyond the walls of the Rockies and the Selkirks that separate this middle of the continent from the Pacific slopes. It is a substantial, prosperous city; you see there is nothing pretentious about its architecture but it is dignified so far as it goes, without the grotesquely dramatic look of a newly rich mining town -- that is because its wealth comes through the more sober, conservative channels of agricultural enterprise. Thirty years ago there were only about two hundred people here. Today there are more than fifty thousand and the bank clearances are exceeded only by Montreal and Toronto. It is the land and the railroad that have effected this transformation. Thousands of square miles in the province of Manitoba all around here are rich alluvial plains like those you see at this moment stretching toward the west -- the bed of a prehistoric lake. It is nearly treeless so no great labour is necessary to prepare it for tillage. Its fertility is something enormous. The summer sun shines tremendously warm and long on the farmers' fields. They say the standing crops get the sun "eight days in the week" because of the increased length of summer days in this high latitude, and, since the completion of the Canadian Pacific railway made it practicable to dispose of large crops, farmers all around here have gone into wheat-raising on a gigantic scale. More than 20,000,000 bushels are exported yearly from Manitoba farms. From Descriptive Bulletin No. 4 -- Bird's eye View of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada --
Copyrighted by Underwood and Underwood.

Horsedrawn Carriage

Coming Through the Rye

High Wheel Locomotive

Spooning

Upper Fort Garry, Winnipeg

Woman with Box Camera

In the Thriving Metropolis of Western Canada
Main Street, Winnipeg

The Banking Section, Main Street Near Union Trust Building, Winnipeg
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Alfalfa Hay Loader

Making a Good Seed Bed

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Evolution of Sickle and Flail - 33 Horse Team

McCormick Thresher

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Our Guide Jack and His Hunting Party

Moon, Last Quarter

Ranch in a Coulee in Southern Alberta

A Real Live Cowboy 1898

A Railroad Gateway

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Indian Head, SK