Article June 20, 1901 ISSUE

In Darkest Canada

There is no need that adventurous travelers should sail for Africa or even for South America in order to find regions yet unexplored, if, as the director of the geological survey of Canada asserts in his last report, practically nothing is known of one third of the Dominion of Canada.

He says, as quoted in The Scientific American Supplement, that there are more than 1,520,000 square miles of unexplored lands in Canada out of a total area computed at 3,450,257 square miles. Even exclusively of the inhospitable detached arctic portions, 954,000 square miles are for all practical purposes entirely unknown. The writer goes on to say:—

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