Canada, Britain's largest colony; with a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador; . York and most of the leading American cities. The Grand Trunk Railway forms the principalcommercial highway between the great lakes andthe Atlantic Ocean, and thus taps the richest andmost populated part of Canada. The St. eiair Tunnel. At Sarnia, the little port on the St. Clair nearits mouth in Lake Huron, is the eastern entranceto the famous St. Clair Tunnel, which carries thepassenger under the river from Canadian territoryinto the United States. This great submarine tunnel is 6,025 yards inlength, but with it
Canada, Britain's largest colony; with a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador; . York and most of the leading American cities. The Grand Trunk Railway forms the principalcommercial highway between the great lakes andthe Atlantic Ocean, and thus taps the richest andmost populated part of Canada. The St. eiair Tunnel. At Sarnia, the little port on the St. Clair nearits mouth in Lake Huron, is the eastern entranceto the famous St. Clair Tunnel, which carries thepassenger under the river from Canadian territoryinto the United States. This great submarine tunnel is 6,025 yards inlength, but with its open portals, or approaches,it is more than two miles in all. It consists ofa continuous iron tube nearly twenty feet indiameter, the engineers having had to put it to-gether in sections as they bored their way throughclay and rock. Before the construction of this tunnel, whichwas commenced in 1888, the Grand Trunk Railwaywas obliged to ferry its trains across the river,and in winter time, when the St. Clair was frozenover, the work of transportation was A CANADIAN RAILWAY BRIDGE. i6G CANADA. The The history of the Canadian Pacific Railwaybegins with the admission of British Columbia intothe Dominion of Canada. The stipulation wasthen made that a railway should be made to jointhe west with the east, and after some time itsconstruction was commenced. At first the Government took the work in hand,but the difficulties to be overcome proved greaterthan was anticipated, and eventually the under-taking was passed over to a Canadian companyThe latter agreed to carry the line through inreturn for valuable grants of money and land, andin 1885 the task was accomplished. On November 7th of that year, at Craigellachie,among the Gold Mountains of British Columbia,the rails from the east and west were joinedtogether, and the last spike triumphantlydriven in. In carrying out tliis important work, LordStrathcona (then plain Mr. Donald Smith) andLord Mouat-Stephen
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