Mary FitzGibbon

The Minnesota again - Souvenirs of Lord and Lady Dufferin - From Winnipeg by Red River - Compagnons du Voyage - A Model Farm - "Bees" - Manitoba a good Field for Emigrants - Changes at Fisher's Landing - A Mild Excitement for Sundays - Racing with Prairie Fires - Glyndon - Humours of a Pullman Sleeping Car - Lichfield.

The Mississippi - The Rapids - Aerial Railway Bridges - Breakfast at Braynor - Lynch Law - Card-sharpers - Crowding in the Cars - Woman's Rights! - The Prairie - "A Sea of Fire" - Crookstown - Fisher's Landing - Strange Quarters - "The Express-man's Bed" - Herding like Sheep - On board the Minnesota.

Lakes Smith and Howard - Lovely Lake Scenery - Long Lake - The Little American - "Wait till you see our Minnetaunka!" - Minneanopolis - Villa Hotels - A Holiday Town - The Great Flour-mills - St. Paul's - Our American Cousins - The French Canadian's Story - Kind-hearted Fellow-passengers - A New Way of Travelling together - The Mississippi - Milwaukee, the Prettiest Town in Michigan - School-houses - A Peep at Chicago - Market Prices - Pigs! - The Fairy Tales of Progress - Scotch Incredulity - Detroit Ferry - Hamilton - Good-bye to my Readers.

Red Lake River - Grand Forks - The Ferry - Custom-house Officers at Pembina - Mud and Misery - Winnipeg at last - A Walk through the Town - A Hospitable Welcome - Macadam wanted - Holy Trinity Church - A Picturesque Population - Indians shopping - An "All-sorts" Store - St. Boniface and its Bells - An Evening Scene.

Summer Days - The English Cathedral - Icelandic Emigrants - Tableaux - In chase of our Dinner - The Indian Summer - Blocked up - Gigantic Vegetables - Fruitfulness of the Country - Iceland Maidens - Rates of Wages - Society at Winnipeg - Half-castes - Magic of the Red River Water - A Happy Hunting-ground - Where is Manitoba?

Winter Amusements - A Winnipeg Ball - Forty Degrees below Zero - New Year's Day - Saskatchewan Taylor - Indian Compliments - A Dog train - Lost in the Snow - Amateur Theatricals - Sir Walter Raleigh's Hat - A Race with the Freshets - The Ice moves - The First Steamer of the Season - Good-bye to Winnipeg.

A Manitoban Travelling-carriage - The Perils of Short Cuts - The Slough of Despond - Paddy to the Rescue! - "Stick-in-the-Mud" and his Troubles - McQuade's - An Irish Welcome - Wretched Wanderers.

Faithless Jehu - The "Blarney Stone" - Mennonites in search of News - "Water, Water everywhere" - A Herd of Buffaloes - A Mud Village - Pointe du Chene and Old Nile - At Dawson Route - A Cheerful Party - Toujours perdrix - The "Best Room" - A Government Shanty - Cats and Dogs - Birch River - Mushroom-picking - The Mosquito Plague - A Corduroy Road - The Cariboo Muskeg.

The "Nor'-west Angle" - The Company's House - Triumph of "Stick-in-the-Mud" - On the Lake of the Woods - A Gallant Cook - Buns a l'imprevu - A Man overboard! - Camping out - Clear Water Bay - Our First Portage - A Noble Savage - How Lake Rice and Lake Deception won their Names - At our Journey's End.

Making a New Home - Carriere's Kitchen - The Navvies' Salle-a-Manger - A Curious Milking Custom - Insect Plagues - Peterboro' Canoes - Fishing Trips - Mail-day - Indian dread of drowning - The Indian Mail-carrier and his Partner - Talking by Telegraph - Prairie Fires.