. Modern transporation and Atlantic express tracks . required. A twenty knot service,which means about an average speed of 16 to 17 knots by BelleIsle, will leave us far behind in the race; but should a twenty knotaverage speed be attained, even that will not enable us to competewith 22 and 23 knots, which will soon be realized on the New Yorkroute; nor will it enable us to compete with the improved Euro-pean lines by the shorter Suez route, not to mention the greatRussian-Siberian railway and its connections. The securing for Canadian industries and enterprise the mar-kets, the potentialities
. Modern transporation and Atlantic express tracks . required. A twenty knot service,which means about an average speed of 16 to 17 knots by BelleIsle, will leave us far behind in the race; but should a twenty knotaverage speed be attained, even that will not enable us to competewith 22 and 23 knots, which will soon be realized on the New Yorkroute; nor will it enable us to compete with the improved Euro-pean lines by the shorter Suez route, not to mention the greatRussian-Siberian railway and its connections. The securing for Canadian industries and enterprise the mar-kets, the potentialities for commerce with trans-Pacific communi-ties, and also the trans-continental travel, would produce industrialexpansion, allied with prosperity and national growth, surpassingall that present imagination can anticipate. In view of the strug-gle for these markets, delay in carrying to an early completion asystem of the most improved transportation between the UnitedKingdom and the Orient through Canada, would be nothing shortof a national 33 CANADIAN BOARDS OF TRADE ON THE ATLANTICMAIL SERVICE. Toronto, January 16th, 1893. The Board of Trade of Toronto, having considered the ques-tion of Transportation from a Canadian standpoint, and havingregard to the enormous resources of the country, both as to itsproviding and purchasing ability, as shown by its steadily increas-ing exports and imports, especially to and from Great Britain, and To vast sums expended by the Dominion in developing oursystem of Railways and Canals, and To fhe fact that this system makes, direct connection withCanadian Ports much nearer to Liverpool than New York is;1Quebec being four hundred and seventy miles nearer, St. John,three hundred and eighty miles nearer, and Halifax six hundredand fifty miles nearer, while other even more suitable Ports may befound still nearer, and To the further fact that our Canadian Atlantic Service is in-adequate to the wants of the country; Therefore be it resolved,
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