. Canada : a descriptive text book . t had beenextended to Toronto, thereby becoming the first great railway of the meantime the Great Western railway had been built throughWestern Ontario. This, with many other roads, was in course of timeamalgamated with the Grand Trunk, which went on acquiring smallerlines and building new ones, not only throughout Eastern Canada, buton through the United States to the great centres of that the Grand Trunk has under operation over four thousand milesof road, with a fine equipment of rolling stock, terminal wharves andelevators. It c
. Canada : a descriptive text book . t had beenextended to Toronto, thereby becoming the first great railway of the meantime the Great Western railway had been built throughWestern Ontario. This, with many other roads, was in course of timeamalgamated with the Grand Trunk, which went on acquiring smallerlines and building new ones, not only throughout Eastern Canada, buton through the United States to the great centres of that the Grand Trunk has under operation over four thousand milesof road, with a fine equipment of rolling stock, terminal wharves andelevators. It crosses the eastern portion of Canada—the most popu-lous and important part of the Dominion—from Quebec to Sarnia, onthe Detroit river. By means of the Intercolonial, it reaches the Atlan-tic coast of the maritime Provinces and by its own line, Portland, a largesea port in the State of Maine. From Sarnia the Grand Trunk runsthrough a splendid tunnel, under the Detroit river and across UnitedStates territory to Chicago, 98 Grand Metis Fails, Quebec. CANADA. 99 The Intercolonial railway was constructed by the Dominion Govern-ment, as part of the scheme of consolidation which led to the Confede-ration of the Provinces. In 1876 the line was opened between Quebecand Halifax. At present, it runs from Halifax to Montreal, while abranch runs from Moncton to St. John, New Brunswick. The Inter-colonial controls 1,355 miles of road, and is owned and operated by theDominion Government. Both the Grand Trunk and the CanadianPacific have certain running privileges over its line. When British Columbia entered confederation, it stipulated thatwithin ten years a railway should be built across the continent fromeastern Canada to the Pacific. After an extensive survey, the Domin-ion Government began the construction of the road, but the work pre-sented unusual difficulties and was finally handed over to a strong com-pany composed chiefly of Canadians. The engineering difficulties, par-
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