We have arrived all too swiftly upon the ways of the Old World.

And today, in spite of our love of peace, we are in an Old World's war! The insatiable demand of Americans for cheap lands assumed a certain international phase at the period lying between 1900 and 1913 or later--the years of the last great boom in Canadian lands.

The Dominion Government, represented by shrewd and enterprising men able to handle large undertakings, saw with a certain satisfaction of its own the swift passing from the market of all the cheap lands of the United States.
It was proved to the satisfaction of all that very large tracts of the Canadian plains also would raise wheat, quite as well as had the prairies of Montana or Dakota.

The Canadian railroads, with lands to sell, began to advertise the wheat industry in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
The Canadian Government went into the publicity business on its own part.

To a certain extent European immigration was encouraged, but the United States really was the country most combed out for settlers for these Canadian lands.