The daily progressive-miner., 1916-07-03
AN AMBITIOUS
 GOVERNMENT
CANADA ADVERTlSES ITS MANY ADVANTAGES AND INVITES
 TRAVELLERS.

] \ new chapter Tn the railway ms ] tory of Canada, and in fact of North
 America, will be written with the in auguration of the new express service
 between Winnipeg and Quebec by the
 Canadian Railways, says a circular letter just received.
 More fitting names could hardly have been selected for the two ex- 1 presses-the National Atlantic and ] the Western National" The mere mention of such service in normal
 times would have attracted national
 attention-for the opening of a direct
 railway route with thorough sleep l ing car service. under government ownership and management, and mak-
 ing new link between the Pacific
 and Atlantic is surely of national i'm port.
 Commencing with June II, the "Na-
 5ional' traveller will journey over a section of the great wheat area of
 Manitoba, cross New Ontario 330,000
 square miles. fully four times the size
 Of Old Ontario, and pass through the i Great Clay Belt for over 400 miles, an area of 16,000,000 acres of level
 CT undulating land destined to be the
 future home of thousands of settlers. He will note the hardy pioneer has not
 enly blazed the trail, but has con- lenced settlement, for here and there along this the most northerly of the eight Transcontinental routes, are al ready flourishing farming areas. The
 National traveller will see develop
 ment in the lumber and pulp indus try, and the vast possibilities for ex-
 tension in those direetions. He will see evidence of the great world war in the detention Camps of Kapuskas- ing and Spirit Lake. where foreign aliens are interned. He will stop at Cochrane (population over 2,000) and La Tuque (population over 4,000) mod
 ern towns with schools, churches, hos
 pital, electric light, built on lands which only few years ago were in the heart of an unknown wilderness Other towns in the making and town sites will be observed. He will ride in view of immense inland waters and cross noble rivers. The opening of such territory will naturally sug- gest untold possibilities for the pros pector, hunter, trapper and angler and these possibilities are so varied
 and extensive as to be beyond human calculation. Already there are con- petent guides who make it a business to conduct hunting and fishing parties i to selected camps, while organized canoe trips on the network of rivers and even to the shores of Hudson Bay can be arranged. And the National" traveller will arrive at Palais Station in quaint Old Quebec, which from it's age and intensely interesting historic associations-where the old and the new today are side by side with an eventful past and combining with inn mense commercial activities make it a city unique among the cities of the Northern American Continent: and all the time h. will have travelled by a
 railway on the construction of which
 no expense has been spared in making
 it what modern engineering science demands in an up-to-date railway. l Mention has been made that the rail-
 way from Winnepeg to Quebec, is a
 link between the Pacific and the At
 lantic. At Winnepeg the Grand
 Trunk Pacific, using the same Union | Station, permits of direct connection
 with it's lines from Prince Rupert
 on the Pacific Coast. The Govern
 ment Railways (the Intercolonial) for
 the Atlantic seaports, St. John, Hali-
 fax, Sydney. connect for freight traf-
 fic at Lewis from Quebec by the car
 ferry SS. Leonard" until such time
 as the Quebec Bridge is completed,
 thus forming new Transcontinental
 route from Coast to Coast-a route
 that will be the potential transporta-
 tion factor in the development of Can ada's new and vast areas.
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