. The making of a great Canadian railway; the story of the search for and discovery of the search for and discovery of the route, and the constru ction of the nearly completed Grand trunk Pacific railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with some account of the hardships and stirring adventures of its constructors in unexplored country . lliams future is secured by one of the mostcolossal enterprises that has ever been attempted in thehistory of the Canadian west and the raising of increasing yield of the prairie has taxed the questionof storing the produce until required by the mar
. The making of a great Canadian railway; the story of the search for and discovery of the search for and discovery of the route, and the constru ction of the nearly completed Grand trunk Pacific railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with some account of the hardships and stirring adventures of its constructors in unexplored country . lliams future is secured by one of the mostcolossal enterprises that has ever been attempted in thehistory of the Canadian west and the raising of increasing yield of the prairie has taxed the questionof storing the produce until required by the market to asupreme degree. The Grand Trunk Pacific, looking intothe future, decided that at Fort William there shouldexist facilities for meeting the requirements of the GreatWest for many, many years to come, so the constructionof a gigantic grain elevator was taken in hand. Forthis purpose 1600 acres were acquired bounded on threesides by water—the Kaministiquia River, the MissionRiver, and Lake Superior respectively. By this meansno less than 7 miles of water frontage were secured, therebybringing the huge freighters trading on Lake Superiorinto touch with the railway. The wisdom of this step is being substantiated the autumn of 1908, although there was not a singlefreight train running on the completed portion of the. ^ « 9 O -2E a A GIGANTIC GRAIN ELEVATOR 145 Grand Trunk Pacific, the farmers who had settled inadvance of the iron horse succeeded in shipping to Winnipegapproximately 1,000,000 bushels of grain, the wholeof which was handled as conditions permitted by theconstruction trains. In the following year a freight trainservice was inaugurated, and as a result several millionbushels were brought down to the capital of Manitoba,where, as the Grand Trunk Pacific had no outlet to theLakes, the whole traffic had to be handed over to rivallines for consignment to points beyond. In 1910, bydint of hard work, the Government completed the shortlink between Winnipeg
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