. Railways and other ways: being reminiscences of canal and railway life during a period of sixty-seven years; with characteristic sketches of canal and railway men, early tram roads and railways, steamboats and ocean steamships, the electric telegraph and Atlantic cable, Canada and its railways, trade and commerce . WesternDivision, in which he still continues. The Grand Trunk Railway Company may fairly claim thatits connections, between the east and west sides of the St. Clair,Niagara and St. Lawrence Rivers, are made by four construc-tions of engineering skill vaster and grander than those
. Railways and other ways: being reminiscences of canal and railway life during a period of sixty-seven years; with characteristic sketches of canal and railway men, early tram roads and railways, steamboats and ocean steamships, the electric telegraph and Atlantic cable, Canada and its railways, trade and commerce . WesternDivision, in which he still continues. The Grand Trunk Railway Company may fairly claim thatits connections, between the east and west sides of the St. Clair,Niagara and St. Lawrence Rivers, are made by four construc-tions of engineering skill vaster and grander than those of anyother railway company in the world, viz.: The Victoria TubularBridge, the Niagara Cable Suspension Bridge, the InternationalBridge and the St. Clair Tunnel. SIR HENRY TYLER. The following particulars are taken from the Port HuronDaily Times tunnel opening edition, Sept. 19, 1891 : Sir Henry Tyler, as President of the Grand Trunk, was thechief promoter of the great St. Clair River Tunnel. In MerrieEngland, Sir Henrys home and native land, he has been closelyconnected with great railway and engineering undertakings, andhas been employed to report on various continental and colonialsystems of railway. He was specially employed to inspect therailway ports of Italy, and to report on the best means of eastern. II The St. Clair Tunnel. 175 communication, and on his report the Brindisi route to Indiawas adopted. As Chairman of the EngHsh Channel TunnelCommission, he signed with his colleagues a formal conventionin 1874, between the English and French governments, for build-ing a tunnel under the Straits of Dover, connecting Francewith England. Sir Henry was a Captain of the lioyal Engi-neers, and was for years a government inspector of railways inEngland. He was knighted for his distinguished services, andis altogether a remarkable man and a worthy successor in thelong line of great English inventors, discoverers and engineersthat have done so much for Englands greatness. Sir Hen
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