. Railways and other ways: being reminiscences of canal and railway life during a period of sixty-seven years; with characteristic sketches of canal and railway men, early tram roads and railways, steamboats and ocean steamships, the electric telegraph and Atlantic cable, Canada and its railways, trade and commerce . Dominion Government Bailways. 217 bass, speckled trout, halibut, salmon, tuladi, big sturgeonand fat iDorpoise, so that the fisherman can have his choice; andif twenty-pounders are too small a fish, he can go in for biggergame and to some extent imitate the Giant Angler : His rod
. Railways and other ways: being reminiscences of canal and railway life during a period of sixty-seven years; with characteristic sketches of canal and railway men, early tram roads and railways, steamboats and ocean steamships, the electric telegraph and Atlantic cable, Canada and its railways, trade and commerce . Dominion Government Bailways. 217 bass, speckled trout, halibut, salmon, tuladi, big sturgeonand fat iDorpoise, so that the fisherman can have his choice; andif twenty-pounders are too small a fish, he can go in for biggergame and to some extent imitate the Giant Angler : His rod was made of a sturdy oak,His line a cable which in storms neer broke,His hook he bated with a dragoas tail,And sat upon a rock and bobd for whale. As a field for the artist the Intercolonial may be said tostand at the head of all railways for its variety of scenery inriver, lake, bay, gulf, island, mountain, valley, forest and ocean. Since the Intercolonial was first put in operation the traffichas developed surprisingly, it having increased nearly three-fold,and it forms one of the most important lines of transportationin Canada. The chief officers of the several departments of the Interco-lonial are men of practical experience, who have passed throughthe different grades of railway work, having won their pr
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