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London, England, 1845-06-12 00:00:00

ONTARIO AND HURON JUNCTION
RAILWAY, WESTERN CANADA.
Length 120 Miles.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 375,000/., in 15,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit, 2k. Gd. per Share, as limited pursuant to the Act of Parlia-
ment 7th and Bth 'Victoria, c 110 ; and a call of 1/. 7s. Gd per Share
will be made on complete registration.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.P.. 3, Queen-square, Westminster.
W. Hastings Greene, Esq., Regent-street.

Frederick Goddard, Esq.: London, and Parade, Brighton.

Hon. William Gore, Wilton-crescent.

P. W. Hamilton, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman•squaro.

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F. Lloyd, Esq., ItirMingbam.
Edward gcard, Esq., Kew-green.
William 11. Boulton, Esq., Mayor of Toront• and M.P.P.
Isaac Buchanan, Esq., Toronto.
William Cayley, Esq., Toronto.

William II .Diaper, M.P.P., Toronto.

William C. Clwrme, Esq.. Toronto.
William B. Jarvis, Esq., Sheriff of Home District, Toronto.

Samuel P. Jarvis, Esq., Toronto.
George P. Ridout, Esq., President of the. Board of Trade, Tomtit°.
Charles Small, Esq., Clerk of the Crown, Toronto.
With power to add to their number. • • •
STANDING CouNstD—Charles F. F. Wordsworth, Esq., Temple.
SOLICITOR IN ENGLAND—WiIIiam Sim, Esq., 8, King's Beuch-walk,
Temple.

COUNSEL AND SOLICITOR IN Cst.N:ADA--Johi W. Gwynn°, Esq.,

Toronto,

BANKERS.
Messrs. lianburys, Taylor, and Lloyd, Lombard-street.
Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., Charing-cross.
The Bank of British North America, Toronto..,
SECRETARY—W. T. Smith, Esq.
ENGINEER—John Valentine, Esq.
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The object of this undertaking is to construct a Railway commu-
nication, under the powers contained in a Provincial Act of Incor-
poration, between Lakes Ontario and Huron, and is imperatively
called for by the annually increasing traffic between these great out-
lets of commerce, and by the unprecedented growth in the population
of the territories benefited by the proposed Line.

The projectors confidently intiodtice this project to the British
public as one in which the commercial interests of the most impor-
tant colony of the empire are involved, and as one which presents a
secure and permanent investment for capital within the dominions of
the crown of Great Britain, in a country governed by the law of
England, and teeming with resources inferior to none of the most
favoured of the States of the American Union.

To the capitalist as an investment, to the merchant in the exten-
sion of trade, and to the patriot who regards colonisation as the best
means of extending the dominion, increasing the wealth, and pro-
moting the prosperity of the empire, this project offers advantages
superior to any that are to be found in a foreign country.
The Provisional Committee have collected the most accurate sta-
tistics they have been able, from authentic sources, of the transit
both of passengers and goods on the present tedious and circuitous
route by Lake Erie, which, they are happy to find, justifies them in
expecting a certain and large return for the capital to be invested.
The ordinary time which is now taken by a steamer to go from
Detroit, on the St. Clair, to Buffalo, in the summer, varies from 36 to
48 hours ; and in the months of September and October during which
months the navigation of Lake Erie, from its great shallowness,
exposed position, and bad harbours, is extremely tedious and dau-
gerous), from 48 to 72 hours; whereas the traveller from Detroit by
way of Goderich and the propoSed line, during all the period of the
navigation on Lake Ontario, will reach Buffalo in 22 hours ; Rochester
in 27 ; Oswego in 41 ; Kingston in 43 ; and Montreal in 63 hours.
To travellers between the Atlantic Ocean and the extensive terri-
tories on Lake Michigan and the Mississippi, the proposed line will be
of greater importance, for Goderich is nearer than Detroit to Lake
Michigan by 120 miles, and Buffalo may be reached from Goderich,
by the proposed line, in eleven hours.
The Railway will commence at the City of Toronto, the chief town
of Western Canada, which has at present a population of about
19,000 souls, with the best Port on the upper part of Lake Ontario,
and surrounded by the most populous and flourishing district in the
Province, and will pass through an exceedingly favourable 1 hie to
the Port of Goderich, the best harbour on the Canadian shore on
Lake Huron.
The proposed Line shortens the distance between Lakes Ontario
and Huron by 270 miles, and avoids the circuitous, anti, at some
periods of the year, dangerous navigation of Lake Erie, and will form
the cheapest, most direct, and expeditious communication between
the wealthy and populous States bordering on the Atlantic, and the
territories intersected by the two great canals lately constructed in
Wisconsin and Illinois, to connect Lake Michigan with the Missisippi.
VIM are no engineering difficulties on the line, there being a
gradual ascent from Toronto for the distance of thirty miles ; and
the remainder of the lino is almost upon a dead level.
The railway will be constructed of wood (which can be procured
upon the whole line foi the mere expense of cutting it), and which
can be Indurated and protected from lire, rot, and insect, by a pro-
cess, the efficacy of which /ma been fully tested ; durability and eco-
nomy, therefore, to an unprecedented extent, will be combined.
Land, which in other lines forme so prominent a feature of expense,
ran be procured at a cost not exceeding 4/. per acre; and all tun-
nelling anti putting, from the level nature of the country, will be
emo,st wboy _ .

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Tho propoSepi in lieirtg flip alma communication between the
'mut. wtwrioe the current of emigration to the Great Western

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_ issues, inapt o necessity draw In itself 4 passenger traffic to
States is Mantas.inPaitulfihlo, find it is to secure this traffic
an extent tho. --a is projected.
that the proposed no.
n_::tural channel for the transit of goods
While Lake Ontario the.
superiority of this route over that of
westward from Montreal, tin;
the Erie Canal, for the transit of gum from the States, is found in
the fact that the navigation of Lake Ofilfif:4; is always open early in
April, and generally in March, and three IS-40 14iiiPre the opening
of the Erie Canal, at Albany, and the facility of coroupplipallan be-
tween Toronto and the wealthy and rapisiiy Pr°gressillg commercial
cities of Oswego and Rochester, points out the atigailtage Of collWiet-
ing the connexion with Lake Ontario by so cheap And eSpeditieus
a route.
In the event of an arrangement being snade, which there is new
every reason to ex
bond across this portion of Canada, goods proceeding westward may
Peet, for the conveyance of American goods in
be afloat on Lake Huron before the opening of the port of Buffalo,
or of the Erie Canal at Albany, while passengers will be able to
travel by this route for six week's longer ill the year titan by Buffalo
and Lake Erie, and it is reasonably to he f4hithcip4o4
arrange-
ments similar to those made by the British GorerlinVlit ficlF tape PP,'"
veyance of the mail through the United States to Clifaa44 will also
be made, on the completion of the proposed 11118 for the OPYPPIIce
of the American snail during eight months of the yeas,
The short history of railroads has not, perhaps, presented so
favourable a oombination et etranmetances, as the proposed line
offers for the investment of capital. TPA faellities for the economical
construction of the road—the importance of the IMP Itself—I he vastly
increasing traffic between the extremes united—and the increase of
the population upon the tine which must follow the construction Of the
road, cannot fail to insure an ample return to the shareholders who
embark in this undertaking.
A negotiation is in progress with influentlel gentlemen in Canada,
named in the Provisional Committee, interested in Parrying into effect
the Act of Incorporation airs ady alluded to, and it is etspected that,
in the course of a few weeks, this Company will have secured the
co-operation of the parties thereby incorporated. In the mean
time, applications will be received and allotments made of shares,
exclusive of a reserve for the colony of 3,000 shares.
By the provisions of the Registration Act, 7 and 8 Vic, ch. 110, the
amount of the Deposit is limited to 10a. per 1001. on the amount sub-
scribed. This sum, and all calls which shall be made upon complete
Registration, will he invested in the names of Trustees ; and all ex-
penses preliminary to obtaining the benefit of the Act of Incorpora-
tion will be strictly confined to the amount of the deposit.
The project has been provisionally registered, and in order to carry
out the objects of the Company with the utmost security to the public,
it is intended that such a Deed of Settlement as shall be approved
of by the Counsel of the Company, siml't he eaeanted by the Share-
holders when called upon, and that the Company shall proceed to
complete Registration.
A more detailed prospectus, containing Statistical information, can
be had upon applying to the Secretary, at the Company's offices, 25,
Essex-street, Strand ; William Sim, Esq., Solicitor to the Company,
8, King's Bench Walk, Temple; Theodore Esq., 75, Broad-
street, City ; J. W. S. May, Esq„ Estehange-alley, Liverpool ; James
Pearson, Share-broker, Birminthassi ; Whalley and-Andrews, Leeds ;
Schroeder and Ashliu, Liverpool ; and Roll and Powell, Manchee-
te: ; to whom applications for Shares may be addressed until the
IGth instant; after which day the allotment will be Made as early as
possible

• FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Directors of the Ontario and Huron Junction
Hallway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will insert my name as a Sub-
scriber for Shares, or any less number that may be allotted
to me, in the Ontario and uron Junction Railway Compen3r, upon
the terms and conditions of the Prospectus ; and I hereby undertake
to accept the same, to pay the deposit and future instalments there-
-,;,ppn, and execute such deed of settlement as may be approved of by
the Casei of the Company.
Gentlemen, your obedient servant,

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