The New North

Chapter 20

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VERMILION-ON-THE-PEACE

The farthest north flour-mill--The man who made Vermilion--Wheat at $1.25 a bushel--An Experimental Farm in latitude 58° 30'--An unoccupied kingdom as large as Belgium--Where the steamer _Peace River_ was built--The hospitable home of the Wilsons--Vermilion a Land of Promise Fulfilled--Culture and the Cloister--Thomas of Canterbury on the Stump