Excerpt from Speech of Mr. John Charlton, M. P., On the National Transcontinental Railway: Ottawa, August 11 and 12, 1903 The next physical feature of this road that I shall refer to is the fact that it opens up a vast unsettled area in Ontario and Quebec. It is a colonisation road for miles. It passes through our hinterland, opens it up, and while opening it up. Ioes over the best route for a direct line from Winnipeg to Quebec. This road passing through this hinterland, with a trunk branch running down the valley of the ...
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Excerpt from Speech of Mr. John Charlton, M. P., On the National Transcontinental Railway: Ottawa, August 11 and 12, 1903 The next physical feature of this road that I shall refer to is the fact that it opens up a vast unsettled area in Ontario and Quebec. It is a colonisation road for miles. It passes through our hinterland, opens it up, and while opening it up. Ioes over the best route for a direct line from Winnipeg to Quebec. This road passing through this hinterland, with a trunk branch running down the valley of the Nottawa river, - I presume some of my hearers have never heard of the Nottawa river, a stream about the size of the Ottawa, with what is sup posed to be an extensive and fertile valley. This branch will go to a harbour upon James' bay, and will open up a vast section of country that will be tributary to this road. That is another physical feature. This road. Through its connection with the extension of the Temiskaming road being built by the Ontario government will provide access to Ontario centres for all the count 7 tribu tary to this Grand Trunk Pacific l.' But this Temiskaming road will not serve as a line to divert traffic to other ports than the port of Quebec. The road will run from Winocross the Rockies by easy grades. The summit of the Peace River pass. Has an altitude about feet above the sea. The construction of the mountain section. As it is termed, will be found to be much less expensive and much less difficult probably than is now anticipated. This western terminus will place the port that is its terminus much nearer to Asiatic ports in north China and Japan than any other port on the Pacific ocean. While the length of the road is somewhat greater than to Vancouver, the distance by the ocean to the ports named is very much less. And so this route will have im portant advantages in the overland and ori ental trade over any other line. It will reach Quebec by easy grades. By a direct line. And in this respect will be superior to any other possible route from the west to that city. It will open up the great clay belt of this northern region. A clay belt that is supposed to contain sixteen million acres of arable land now lying unoccupied. Not pos sibie of being occupied, because it has no means of communication with the outer world. It will open up that clay belt. And it will open up all the timber resources. All the agricultural resources. And all the min eral resources of that great stretch of coun try, miles in length from Quebec to Winnipeg. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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