Peeps at Many Lands: Canada

Peeps at Many Lands: Canada is a travelogue written by John Thomas Bealby, part of a popular early-20th-century series offering accessible peeps into different countries for general and younger readers. It portrays Canada as a vast dominion spanning roughly one-third of the British Empire—stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from settled southern latitudes to Arctic wilderness—emphasizing its immense scale, varied landscapes (prairies, Great Lakes, Rocky Mountains, British Columbia’s fjord-like scenery and forests), climate extremes, and natural resources such as wheat, timber, minerals, fish, and fruit.

Through short chapters on home life, winter sports, frontier law and order, prairie travel, agriculture, logging, mining, waterways, historical encounters (including with Indigenous peoples), French-Canadian habitants along the St. Lawrence, and the diverse populations of the time, the book presents an admiring, imperial-era snapshot of Canadian geography, daily life, industries, and potential, blending descriptive scenery with notes on settlement, wildlife, and cultural variety from bustling eastern cities to remote northern and western regions.