CANADIAN RAILWAYS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14331, 8 October 1910, Page 3

CANADIAN RAILWAYS.

' ■ NEW LINE PROPOSED. By Electric Telegrrinh —Copyright. ' , OTTAWA, Oct. 7. Amendments in the charter of tho Portland Canal short line foreshadow its extension to Hudson’s Bay, making the’ fourth lino across the prairie country, [The Portland, Canal is an inlet on the'West Coast of Canada, 500 miles north of Vancouver. A glance, at the .map will show that a lino from this .point to Hudson’s Bay would touch what appears t<j absolutely now country.’ The other throe railways referred to in the cablegram are tho'Canadian Pacific, .which stretches across the entire continent from St. John, New Brunswick to Vancouver, British Columbia, a distance of 3379 miles; the Canadian Northern Railway with a mileage of over'6ooo miles, stretching from the’ Atlantia to'the Rocky Mountains, and serving” Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta; and the Grand Trunk i Pacific; now being constructed, an “All Red 1 route, and the ' only “All Canadian” transportation route, connecting Halifax, Nova Scotia with Rupert on the coast of British Colum- ‘ Wa.] ..-I’ : V. 1