. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. ext fiveyears expend not less than $500,000,-000 if the volume of our business isto be handled is familiar to all of meet her most urgent needs twogreat lines of steel track are beingthrown across the rich Canadianplains, namely, the Grand TrunkPacific and the Canadian Laurier cabinet promises a roadto Hudson Bay. A line to the At-lantic seaboard in Eastern Labrador—in the neighborhood of the Strait that the shortest and most directroute between these western territor-ies and the British Isles lies throughLabrador and Newfoundland, a
. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. ext fiveyears expend not less than $500,000,-000 if the volume of our business isto be handled is familiar to all of meet her most urgent needs twogreat lines of steel track are beingthrown across the rich Canadianplains, namely, the Grand TrunkPacific and the Canadian Laurier cabinet promises a roadto Hudson Bay. A line to the At-lantic seaboard in Eastern Labrador—in the neighborhood of the Strait that the shortest and most directroute between these western territor-ies and the British Isles lies throughLabrador and Newfoundland, andthat cities like Chicago and St. Paulwould be brought as near to BelleIsle Strait as to New York, so thatthe gain by this route would be asthe difference of a steamer run of1,650 miles against one of 3,130miles. Cattle and grain could bemoved direct from the ranches andelevators to St. Johns even in themidst of winter. The climatic condi-tions in Newfoundland and Labra-dor are not so trying as in theNorthwest, Ontario, or Quebec, nor. TO CUT THE OCEAN IN TWO lOI is the snowfall so great. The averagesnowfall at Moose Factory, HudsonBay, is only eighty inches, while atMontreal it is one hundred and seven-ty-seven inches, and the Lake railway, in the northern sectionof Quebec, was operated continuous-ly all through the exceptionally severewinter of 1904, when the railwaysin maritime Canada were blockedwith snow for days together. SirWm. Van Home, the great railwaymagnate of Montreal, recently de-clared that Canadas hopper was toobig for the spout; in other words,that her products for export were in-creasing far more rapidly than her Canada would no longer be dependentupon the United States for the bond-ing privileges through Americanports and territory, which are nosmall factor in the effective develop-ment of her foreign trade. tiere then, we have the motives forthe building up of a great seaport,which, in its turn, depends upon theconstruction of a tunnel under theBe
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