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National Geographic : 1950 Sep
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The National Geographic Magazine Her Coat Choked with Ribbons, a Fox Farmer Holds Her Quebec Show Entry Wild furs were virgin Canada's El Dorado; they opened the wilderness to exploration and settlement. In recent times fur farming created fresh fortunes. Lately, however, fashion's whim has ruined the fox market. Fancy pelts which used to fetch $15 to $100 now bring $5 to $30. Quebec breeders in 1945 numbered 4,000; now they count scarcely 400. This doglike white face mutation was produced from the standard silver fox. Its jaws are lightly laced to prevent snapping. Its long past holds memories of Count Frontenac, iron-willed Governor of New France, and La Salle; of Loyalist settlers and British redcoats; the Royal Navy on Lake Ontario; the beginnings of responsible government for Upper Canada; and the first meeting of a Parliament of the Province of Canada. Today modern establishments carry on Kingston military traditions that go back 277 years. On the site of Frontenac's 1673 fort stands the National Defense College. In 1876 the city's Royal Military College, the West Point of Canada, began here in "H.M.S. Stone Frigate," a former naval storehouse. Here, too, is the Canadian Army Staff College. Many-sided Kingston is also a cathedral city and center of learning. Ivy-covered buildings of Queen's University, chartered by Victoria in 1841, cluster near the shores of Lake Ontario (page 334). Industrious, the city has long made boats and locomotives. Now it also manufactures aluminum products and nylon in up-to-the-minute suburban fac tories. High on the ramparts of old Fort Henry I watched the slanting rays of a setting sun cancel out a summer day. A brass cannon boomed (page 335), a bugle sounded, proudly the Union Flag was lowered. Gliding from the island-studded river, a freighter headed into the sealike sweep of Lake Ontario. No wonder, I thought, that Indians told Cartier he had found "the river that has no end." 366
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