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Identifier: statementconcern00onta (find matches)
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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Sault Ste. Marie - Indians fishing in the rapids

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rio must inthe future take place and a good beginning has been made. Large sums have been and are being spent in railroads, mines, forest indus-Railway tries, and farm lands. An era of railroad building has already Construe- been inaugurated, and with the construction of railways, fresh fields will be opened up for the investment of capital, the employment of labor, and the location of settlers on the land thus rendered accessible—all of which will afford additional markets for the manufactured products of the country and add to the welfare of the community. Considerable as the developments have been in the aggregate, yet the extent of territory is so enormous that the country may be said to havebeen only scratched. Even in the settled sections, civilization rubs shoulders with backwoods life. A few hours journey takes the traveller from the commercial mart to the rough camp of the lumberman and the miner, and to the railroad construction gang. In districts apparently uninhabited he (66 1
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^ NORTHERN ONTARIO comes upon the prospector blasting rock for minerals, the drive of logs coming down stream to the mills, or the operations ot a railroad contractorlevelling the ground ahead of him for the rails that are to follow, showing that human skill and energy are being brought to bear to reap the harvest of the forest and to secure wealth from the minerals. One of the best instances of what skill and capital can accomplish in the development of these latent resources, will be found in the industries established by the Clergue Syndicate at Sault Ste. Marie, where Industrial results that seem little short of marvellous are being achieved,ment P~ This series of industries had its beginning about five years ago in the harnessing of the rapids at the Sault, to which the drop in the level between Lakes Superior and Huron gives rise, and its application to the prodution of electrical energy. By this means heat and power are evolved without the employment

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