. Montreal province of Quebec Canada . y rail to Pictou and thence by boat to Charlottetown, thecapital. The main line of railway ends at Halifax, wellknown as one of the military and naval depots of the BritishEmpire. From Truro, on this line, a branch runs to CapeBreton Island, and through the island to Sydney. Thisisland has lately risen into importance through its rich coal-fields. Here are also many charming summer resorts, suchas Baddeck, on the Bras dOr lakes. On Dominion Square, one of the most prominentstructures, is the splendid cut-stone pile of the WindsorStation—headquarters worth
. Montreal province of Quebec Canada . y rail to Pictou and thence by boat to Charlottetown, thecapital. The main line of railway ends at Halifax, wellknown as one of the military and naval depots of the BritishEmpire. From Truro, on this line, a branch runs to CapeBreton Island, and through the island to Sydney. Thisisland has lately risen into importance through its rich coal-fields. Here are also many charming summer resorts, suchas Baddeck, on the Bras dOr lakes. On Dominion Square, one of the most prominentstructures, is the splendid cut-stone pile of the WindsorStation—headquarters worthy of the Canadian Pacific Rail-way, the greatest transportation company in the world. Itcontrols 10,000 miles of lines, stretches from the Atlantic tothe Pacific, and has fleets of fine vessels regularly plying onboth oceans. On the Atlantic its ships keep up a regularservice between Montreal, Quebec or St. John, N. B., andLondon, Liverpool, Bristol and Antwerp, and on the Pacificbetween Vancouver and Victoria, B. C, and the Orient,. Scenes on tne Canada Atlantic R; 32 M ONTRKAt Skagvvay and Seattle, while the steamers of the Canadian-Australian line run in close connection with its trains, toAustralasia. Besides the Windsor Station, it has another fine depot inthe east end of the city, on Place Viger. Here arrive thetrains from Quebec, the Nominingue branch through theLaurentians and the north shore route to Ottawa. TheWindsor Station, however, is the centre of the whole system,for it is the point of departure and arrival of the regular trans-continental trains, and of the Short Line trains thatconnect Montreal with the Maritime Provinces, Halifax andSt. John, the winter terminus of the Atlantic steamshipservice. Here, too, arrive and depart the trains for NewYork, t Boston and Toronto.
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