Hardware merchandising January-June 1897 . Vol. IX. MONTREAL AND TORONTO, MARCH 13, 1897 No. I I J. BAYNE MacLEAN, HUGH C. MacLEAN, President. THE MacLEAN PUB. CO. Limited. Fine Magazine Printers and Trade Newspaper Publishers TORONTO: MONTREAL: 26 Front St. W. Board of Trade Building. Telephone 2148. Telephone 1255. John Cameron, General Subscription A. G. Campbell, General Subscription Agent. IT IS OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE. A GOOD many people who are in-clined to treat lightly the importanceof a railway through the CrowsNest Pass are fond of asserting that it isonly a l

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Hardware merchandising January-June 1897 . Vol. IX. MONTREAL AND TORONTO, MARCH 13, 1897 No. I I J. BAYNE MacLEAN, HUGH C. MacLEAN, President. THE MacLEAN PUB. CO. Limited. Fine Magazine Printers and Trade Newspaper Publishers TORONTO: MONTREAL: 26 Front St. W. Board of Trade Building. Telephone 2148. Telephone 1255. John Cameron, General Subscription A. G. Campbell, General Subscription Agent. IT IS OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE. A GOOD many people who are in-clined to treat lightly the importanceof a railway through the CrowsNest Pass are fond of asserting that it isonly a local road and that therefore the citi-zens of Eastern Canada ought not to interestthemselves in the matter. It is quite true that, in its narrow sense,the proposed road is a local road, but thatdoes not warrant the business men ofOntario and Quebec being uninterested in itsconstruction. The road will be primarily local, but notaltogether. It will be local just as any onelink in a chain is independent of the otherlinks, just as the balance

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