. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. railway, in the northern sectionof Quebec, was operated continuous-ly all through the exceptionally severewinter of 1904, when the railwaysin maritime Canada were blockedwith snow for days together. SirWm. Van Home, the great railwaymagnate of Montreal, recently de-clared that Canadas hopper was toobig for the spout; in other words,that her products for export were in-creasing far more rapidly than her Canada would no longer be dependentupon the United States for the bond-ing privileges through Americanports and territory, which are nosmall factor in t
. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. railway, in the northern sectionof Quebec, was operated continuous-ly all through the exceptionally severewinter of 1904, when the railwaysin maritime Canada were blockedwith snow for days together. SirWm. Van Home, the great railwaymagnate of Montreal, recently de-clared that Canadas hopper was toobig for the spout; in other words,that her products for export were in-creasing far more rapidly than her Canada would no longer be dependentupon the United States for the bond-ing privileges through Americanports and territory, which are nosmall factor in the effective develop-ment of her foreign trade. tiere then, we have the motives forthe building up of a great seaport,which, in its turn, depends upon theconstruction of a tunnel under theBelle Isle Strait: it will greatly en-hance the economic and political im-portance of Newfoundland; furnishan outlet of that big section of thecontinent called Canada, just back ofher; free Canada from her partial de-pendence upon the United States for. Hay Time in Newfoundland. facilities for exporting them, and itwas to remedy these conditions thatthe building of her new trans-con-tinental railways was determined up-on. In like manner, when the Dom-inion Parliament, in March, 1907, de-clared itself in favor of grantingonly to British goods, landed fromBritish vessels in Canadian ports, thepreferential tariff treatment whichCanada now accords to the mothercountry. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, in ac-cepting the principle, suggested thatthe date of enforcing it be left to theCabinet, as by 1911 the new railwayswould be able to convey grain fromthe prairies of the West, and then transportation privileges; and renderher self-sufficing. At its narrowest point—betweenPoint Amour and Savage Cove—theBelle Isle Strait is slightly less thannine miles wide. A few years agoit was proposed to construct a vastdam here of gigantic proportions anduse this as a causeway for railwaytracks. Such a feat is entirely
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