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Title: A statement concerning the extent resources, climate and industrial development of the province of Ontario, Canada
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Ontario. Dept. of Crown Lands
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: (Toronto, Cameron, Pr.)
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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ines of the Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk to the South. It con-nects, via the Canada Atlantic, with Montreal, Quebec, St. John and Halifax ;and with Boston, Portland and New York by American roads It forms ashort cut across Ontario from the Great Lakes and is thus a very directroute to tidal waters Other important roads in course of construction are the AlgomaCentral from Sault Ste. Marie to Hudson Bay and the Ontario and RainyRiver Railway—a section of the Canada Northern Each of these roadswill open up a large field for development in newer portions ot theprovince The growth of the electric railway in Ontario within the past few years has been rapid and continuous. In the cities and more important towns the electric car has completely taken the place of the horse Electric car for passenger traffic. Not only so, but the system is rapidly extending itself into the rural districts, where it affords light or secondary railway facilities for the speedy transportation of passen- (31)
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Haunt of the Brook Trout. Courtesy of Grand Trunk Railway System.(32) TRANSPORTATION gers, farm produce and general light freight, and bids fair in the near futureto add greatly to the wealth and prosperity of the Province. As has already been pointed out, the Great Lakes and the St LawrenceRiver form the greatest system of inland waterways in the world. Thereis, however, a difference of level between Lake Superior and the tide-watersamounting- to 602 feet, giving rise to rapids between Lakes Superior andHuron, to the celebrated falls of the Niagara River between Lakes Erie andOntario, and to the rapids of the St Lawrence To overcome these ob-stacles to navigation, a fine series of canals has been constructed, fifty-onemiles in extent, at a total cost of about fifty millions of dollars, as follows :the Welland system, connecting Lake Erie with Lake Ontario,,twenty-three and three-quarter miles ; the St Lawrence system,twenty-four miles ; and the Sault Ste. Marie canal, three quarterso

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