Canada

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.

Irish Wit - Bears? - Death on the Red Pine Lake - A Grave in the Catholic Cemetery - The First Dog-train - A Christmas Fete - Compulsory Temperance - Contraband Goods - The Prisoner wins the Day - Whisky on the Island - The Smuggler turned Detective - A Fatal Frolic - "Mr. K - - 's Legs".

Birds of Passage - An Independent Swede - By Sleigh to Ostersund - A Son of the Forest - Burnt out - A Brave Canadian Girl - Roughing it in the Shanty - The Kitchen-tent - Blasting the Rock - The Perils of Nitro-glycerine - Bitter Jests.

We lose our Cows - Cahill promoted - Gardening on a New Principle - Onions in Hot-houses - Cahill is hoaxed - Martin the Builder - How the Navvies lived - Sunday in Camp - The Cook's Leap - That "Beautiful Skunk!" - Wild Fruits - Parting.

About twelve oeclock this day, being in the Lower Town, I looked up at the signal-gun by the flag-staff on Cape Diamond, and saw a soldier up in the heavens there making preparations to fire it, - both he and the gun in bold relief against the sky. Soon after, being warned by the boom of the gun to look up again, there was only the cannon in the sky, the smoke just blowing away from it, as if the soldier, having touched it off, had concealed himself for effect, leaving the sound to echo grandly from shore to shore, and far up and down the river.