. Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists. despatch, and approachedwith caution the question of granting any aid tothe undertaking, but in April, 1846, instructionswere issued to the Royal Engineers to make thesurvey asked for. Public attention was muchattracted to the project by the speeches andwritings of many prominent men who discussed itat this time. The points generally consideredwere the effect that the railw
. Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists. despatch, and approachedwith caution the question of granting any aid tothe undertaking, but in April, 1846, instructionswere issued to the Royal Engineers to make thesurvey asked for. Public attention was muchattracted to the project by the speeches andwritings of many prominent men who discussed itat this time. The points generally consideredwere the effect that the railway would have onthe commerce of the country, on the settlementof wild lands, on the union of the Provinces into one community, the more intimate connectionwhich could be established with the MotherCountry, and the greater general security in caseof war. On the last point. Colonel Hoiloway,who had conducted the survey for the militaryroad, expressed himself strongly in favour of therailway. Sir John Harvey, in his opening address to theLegislature of Nova Scotia in January, 1847, ^^-commended to their continued attention thisrailway, which he said was not second to anyproject which had ever engaged the notice of any. Major General Sir John Harvey. Colonial Legislature in any part of the Britishdominions, and which would constitute themost imi)ortant link in that great line of com-munication, which may be destined at no remoteperiod to connect the Atlantic with the PacificOcean, and to conduct to a British seaport, fromthose into which it is now forced, vast streamsof trade, not of our own western possessionsalone, but of the rich and extensive wheat andgrain growing districts of all central were passed by the Parliaments of So CANADA : AN ENCYCLOP-EDIA. the three Provinces, in Nova Scotia on the 4thMarch, New Brunswick on the 2nd April, andCanada on the 26th May, 1846, setting forth thenecessity for the survey, and binding the severalProvinces to make good t
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