. 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. ca and ofthe Mother Country, and that they regarded thework as of so much importance to the wholeEmpire as to justify them in recommending toParliament that Imperial assistance should begiven. Earl Grey concluded by suggesting thata deputation from the Executive Councils ofNova Scotia and New Brunswick should meetLord Elgin and his Council, for the purpose ofcoming to some
. 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. ca and ofthe Mother Country, and that they regarded thework as of so much importance to the wholeEmpire as to justify them in recommending toParliament that Imperial assistance should begiven. Earl Grey concluded by suggesting thata deputation from the Executive Councils ofNova Scotia and New Brunswick should meetLord Elgin and his Council, for the purpose ofcoming to some agreement on the differentmatters to be considered in connection with fhe 82 CANADA : AN railway ; which agreement, after being approvedby the Legislatures of the several Provinces mightbe submitted for the sanction of the ImperialParliament. The suggested Conference was held at Toronto,and a satisfactory arrangement attained. TheParliament of Canada, being then in session, pro-ceeded at once to pass the required Assemblies of the Maritime Provinces werecalled expressly for the purpose, but before theLegislature of New Brunswick could meet, adespatch was received from London conveying. Edward, Ulh Earl of , the intelligence that, although the British Gov-ernment had no objection to the project includinga proviso for establishing a communication withthe railways of the United States, the cost ofsuch a communication could not be includedin the guarantee. Mr. Howe had understoodthat the guarantee would cover the cost of therailway advocated by him in London, namely,from Halifax, by Truro and St. John, to join therailways from Portland in the United States, aswell as of the main line to Quebec and Montreal. As this railway (the European and North Ameri-can Railway) was considered to be of very greatimportance to New Brunswick, and as the Legis-lature of that Province had already pledged thepublic credit to the extent of ^^300,000 sterling
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