. Hardware merchandising March-June 1917. ^ i This Company The Canada Sugar Refin-ing Company is still doing business inMontreal. The great chemical industrywas also in its infancy at the time ofConfederation. Drugs, soap, starch andpotash were practically the only pro-ducts in this field. Of Canadas greatdairying resources there was hardly atrace at this time. There were in fact. only a half a dozen cheese this small beginning only half acentury ago has sprung one of Canadaspremier industries. Riveting a Continent With Steel RailsCanada was just waking into a realiz-ation of he
. Hardware merchandising March-June 1917. ^ i This Company The Canada Sugar Refin-ing Company is still doing business inMontreal. The great chemical industrywas also in its infancy at the time ofConfederation. Drugs, soap, starch andpotash were practically the only pro-ducts in this field. Of Canadas greatdairying resources there was hardly atrace at this time. There were in fact. only a half a dozen cheese this small beginning only half acentury ago has sprung one of Canadaspremier industries. Riveting a Continent With Steel RailsCanada was just waking into a realiz-ation of her possibilities in the year it was this spirit of the timesthat brought about a poli-tical Union that was tomake Canada a Dominionfrom sea to sea, that show-ed also to these men whohad dreamed this dream ofUnion the necessities thatlay before them, showedthem the disintegrating ef-fect of isolation, and point-ed them to the possibilitiesof a country united by agreat highway of steelfrom the shores of the At-lantic to that other shorehalf the world away. At any rate it was thedevelopment of Canadasrailroad systems the de-mand for which had beenpart and parcel of the Con-federation issue, that hasbeen the source of almostevery forward step thatCanada has taken in all theyears succeeding. Ontariohad been built up aroundthe Grand Trunk Railwayand there was now to
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