Canadian Cities
of Romance

     That Canadian towns and cities possess an atmosphere all their own has been recognized by many a traveler. Just what this atmosphere—not old world, not American—means is presented for the first time in these sketches which have been called “prose etchings, delicate as those of Whistler.” For the Canadian reader they call attention to historic backgrounds too long neglected. For readers of other countries they give glimpses of a land where legend and romance still linger, and whose cities are characterized by a distinctly racial flavour, mingled with the vast resources and young virility of the North.

 

So many of my friends, from one end of Canada to the other, have helped me in the matter of these stories that their names would make a substantial addition to this book. I can only return thanks, and say that each request for information has been met with the utmost kindness of goodwill.

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