Life in the Magdalen Islands.
BY W. LACEY AMY.
From The Wide World Magazine 1911, July (presumed), source eBay
photo of GB edition.
It is safe
to say that very few readers of “The Wide World Magazine” have ever heard of
the Magdalen Islands. They belong to Canada, yet not one Canadian in ten has
any knowledge of them. Situated in the centre of the Gulf of St. Lawrence,
ice-bound in winter and storm-beset at other seasons, they are entirely cut off
from the outside world for many months of the year. Mr. Amy gives a very
interesting account of the quaint, easy-going islanders, very few of whom have
ever left their native shores.
MANY a tourist thinks that he has seen Canada when he has taken
the five-day trip from Halifax to Victoria, or the still shorter
“transcontinental” from boat to boat—Montreal to Vancouver. A Canadian will
laugh at such a claim, and furnish as justification those interesting sections
never seen on such journeys—the wonderful valleys of the Maritime Provinces,
the quaint villages of French Quebec, the newly-discovered wealth of Northern
Ontario, the productive plains in the Western Provinces, far from the view of
the railways, and the fruit and ranch-lands hidden away between the mountain
ranges of British Columbia.
It takes months to cover Canada; it takes years to know it. And
even the native Canadian has only just begun to realize the wealth of his
country and the out-of-the-way places that make this great dominion a veritable
book of revelations.
The great Annapolis Valley and the Metapedia
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