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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 85

The Dominion of Canada

The Dominion of Canada

Comprises the following provinces:—
  • Prince Edward Island, same size as Norfolk.
  • Quebec, Ontario, which form Canada proper, five times larger than England.
  • Nova Scotia, hardly half the size of England.
  • New Brunswick, half the size of England.
  • Manitoba, twice the size of England.
  • British Columbia and Vancouver Island, about six times the size of England.
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map of Canada

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The North-West Territory, about forty times the size of England.

Newfoundland has not joined the confederation.

A Railway Trip of nearly 4,000 miles through the Dominion of Canada, from Louisburg on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean to Vancouver on the coast of the Pacific Ocean.

Stage I. about 2,000 miles, through the older provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario, with their Forest lands, in which large areas have been cleared for Farms and Orchards.

Stage II. about 1,200 miles over the broad Level Prairie of Manitoba, Assiniboia, and Alberta. Here no railway cutting or embankment is needed. Both climate and soil combine to make this the best Wheat growing district in the world. Winnipeg, not quite the "Half-way House "between ocean and ocean, is on this stage. Its population in 1871 was 241, now it has probably reached 30,000. Here, more than 2,000 miles from the sea, we have Lake Winnipeg, about two and a half times the size of Sussex, Surrey and Kent, and a river, the Saskatchewan, flowing into it, up which a steamer can travel 1,5oo miles.

Stage III., the last 600 miles of railway, more than 300 of which are cut through the solid rock of the Rocky Mountains. The railway mounts more than 3,000 feet above the sea-level before Columbia, the most western province, is reached.

Advantages of the Canadian Pacific Railway.—England to Sydney in Australia, via Suez and Colombo, takes about 42 days, and all the coal required by the steam ships has to be carried to the "coaling stations."

England to Sydney, Australia via Louisburg (the most eastern port of Canada), and the Canadian Pacific to Vancouver, will take about 29 days. Louisburg and Vancouver are respectively on two of the largest coalfields in the world. Thus not only a great saving of time but of cost is effected by this route.

The journey from England to Yokohama in Japan, via Suez, takes about 55 days, the journey from England to Yokohama, via the Canadian Pacific Railway, takes 20 days; a saving of 35 days.