mentioned in Chapter VI, all the main features of Canadian geography were made known.  The next series of pioneers were to be those of the mining industry—­it was the discovery of gold in 1856 which created British Columbia; of agriculture—­the wheat-growers of the Red River region made the province of Manitoba; of the steamboat; and above all the railway.  Developments of science scarcely yet dreamt of will demand in further time their pioneers, and these will not come from abroad, but will assuredly be found in this splendid Canadian people, the descendants of the men or of the types of men I have attempted to describe.