The land of open doors; being letters from western CanadaWith foreword by Earl Grey . t every point. 119 ALONG THE NEW TRANS-CONTINENTAL The Mission House, Edson,Alberta, June loth. I WRITE to you from a new address. It is sometime since you had a letter, and I want now, if Ican, to give you some impression of the last twoor three weeks. I do not know whether you are familiar withthe main points of railway geography in North-Western Alberta at the present time.^ They aresimple. The Grand Trunk Pacific and theCanadian Northern Railways (which I will referto in future as the and ) a
The land of open doors; being letters from western CanadaWith foreword by Earl Grey . t every point. 119 ALONG THE NEW TRANS-CONTINENTAL The Mission House, Edson,Alberta, June loth. I WRITE to you from a new address. It is sometime since you had a letter, and I want now, if Ican, to give you some impression of the last twoor three weeks. I do not know whether you are familiar withthe main points of railway geography in North-Western Alberta at the present time.^ They aresimple. The Grand Trunk Pacific and theCanadian Northern Railways (which I will referto in future as the and ) are bothbuilding as rapidly as they can towards thePacific. They both passed Edmonton long ago,but the , who arrived there first, only wenttwenty miles farther west to Stony Plain, whereit stopped, and for the next few years everyenergy was put into developing the system farthereast and south. The , however, arrivingin Edmonton a couple of years later, went straighton west, with the result that it is now fartherahead than the Both railways run Cf. map, p. ENTWISTLE CHURCH
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