The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . of thick for-ests with vegetation of almost tropicalluxuriance on the other. Although thecreation of this important waterway,which is one of the most interestingfeatures of the whole lake country ofCanada, occurred in a prehistoric age,it has proved, a great heritage to apeople coming many centuries the earliest days of lake andriver navigation, w^ith the frail birch 5-49 bark canoes of the Indians and fur-traders timidly hugging its shores,through the transition of slow-sailingvessels bobbing
The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . of thick for-ests with vegetation of almost tropicalluxuriance on the other. Although thecreation of this important waterway,which is one of the most interestingfeatures of the whole lake country ofCanada, occurred in a prehistoric age,it has proved, a great heritage to apeople coming many centuries the earliest days of lake andriver navigation, w^ith the frail birch 5-49 bark canoes of the Indians and fur-traders timidly hugging its shores,through the transition of slow-sailingvessels bobbing lightly on the slug-gish swells and the puffing steam-boats racing from port to port, to thepresent age of giant ore carriers,package freighters and lake liners,this waterw^ay has borne a large pro-portion of the commerce of the North-west and the more populous sectionsof the east. In our day these waters,comprising the St. Clair Eiver, LakeSt. Clair, and the Detroit Eiver, com-pose the greatest marine highway inthe world, carrying fully seventy-fiveper cent, of the entire commerce of. SINKING THE LAST iTHE ELEVENTHi SECTION OF THE DETROIT RIVER TUNNEL—ON THE WINDSOR SIDE the Great Lakes. While the bulk ofthis commerce is of domestic receiptsand shipments of the United States, aconsiderable proportion of water bornecommerce of Canada, which exceedstwentj million tons yearly, passes be-tween its shores. The people of Canada, and for thatmatter their neighbours across the bor-der, little realise the economic valueof the waterway transportation af-forded by the inland seas, nor do theygrasp the full significance of thegreat wave of shipbuilding now sweep-ing the country, or the vast commercewhich flows through these waters in asingle season of navigation of about240 days. It totals something like onehundred million tons, three-fourthsof which passes Windsor and Sarnia,and more than one-half throughthe great locks and canals at SaultSte. Marie. The lake merchant mar-ine in point
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