Hind's final report described what everyone had hoped he would find: a vast "fertile belt" which extended in a northwest direction, all the way from Red River to the Rocky Mountains. With very little scientific data available, Hind concluded that "no other part of North America [has] this singularly favourable disposition of soil and climate." Decades later, advocates of western expansion would use Hind's report as justification for Canada's acquisition of Rupert's Land and for the settlement of the Northwest by European immigrants.