Excerpt from The Great Dominion: An Address If you glance at the map you will observe that Nova Scotia constitutes a peninsula, connected by the isthmus of Chignecto with the province of New Brunswick, and that, consequently, the communication of the river and gulf of the St. Lawrence with the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic ports of the United States can only be established either by going round Cape Breton or by sailing through the Strait of Canso. It is intended to connect the gulf of the St. Lawrence with the Bay of ...
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Excerpt from The Great Dominion: An Address If you glance at the map you will observe that Nova Scotia constitutes a peninsula, connected by the isthmus of Chignecto with the province of New Brunswick, and that, consequently, the communication of the river and gulf of the St. Lawrence with the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic ports of the United States can only be established either by going round Cape Breton or by sailing through the Strait of Canso. It is intended to connect the gulf of the St. Lawrence with the Bay of Fundy by a canal at Baie Verte, which will save between the upper parts of the St. Lawrence and New York more than 500 miles of navigation, to Boston and Portland 400 miles, and to St. John at least 300 miles. In the mouth of the gulf lies Newfoundland, having advantages of position and containing within itself undeveloped sources of riches and national strength, which might well stay our inquiry for this whole evening, were we not bound to hasten on to vaster areas and more wonderful storehouses of nature. Miles round, the whole coast swarming with fish, it has regions wholly unexplored of richly wooded lands and fine alluvial soil. Mr. Murray, the provincial geologist, has during the summer reported to his Government the discovery upon the Gander River of vast forests of valuable timber, and of a country capable of supporting an agricultural population of at least people and this is but an instalment of future promise. 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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