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Peoples of Canada: Long will the world remember

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Narration: Long will the world remember the opening of the Canadian West, for then the call of Canada sped once more across the seas. Under the vastness of the Prairie sky, lay land broader then men’s dreams. New lands, new hope, new life. In the wake of the pioneers came the railroad and with its coming, the boundless plains were open to all comers.