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Photograph by G. A. McNicholl

DOUKHOBORS AT WORK ALONG THE LINE OF THE GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY, IN QU’APPELLE VALLEY

is a well known. fact that the an- nual mean temper- ature up there is about the same as that of. Detroit, eooler in summer and winter, but I have been fortun- ate enough to se- cure a comparative statement of the weather conditions, covering a period of eight months, November, 1906, to June, 1907, inclusive, which will make interesting reading. At Prince Rupert the record of the weather for the period referred to was kept by Mr. P. W. Anderson, of the new town, and the report of weather conditions at Vancouver for the same period is from the Meteorological Service of

Canada, Department of Marine and Fisheries.

To those who are not in the habit of taking into consideration the effect

of the Japan current, which washes 396

FIRST CUTTING AT PRINCE

up the North Pa-

cific coast, this comparative state- ment will be a

creat surprise, but those who are ac- quainted with the West are aware that the isothermal line trends north as we go west, and finally loops down by the MacKenzie river to the Great Slave lake and be- yond. The follow- ing is the number of fine, fair, cloudy and rainy days at Vancouver:

Fine Fair Cloudy Rainy

RUPERT, ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO

INO Vice 0G: Pes 255 3 5) ay Deans Owes. a8 2 4 ae Jamie sO Geese 510 3 5) 13 jhe) oe 0 eb end reo ©, 7 ie 14 INES ee OW Ciena ee 3 3 16 Uy orate et OY (appa eeiie os » 2 dat: WeanastO (aces eS 2 8 6 Un ere we 9 4 8 9 Total No. days 62. 29 49 469 Record for the same time at