Identifier: prairieprovinces00boam (find matches)
Title: The Prairie Provinces of Canada : their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Boam, Henry J Brown, Ashley G
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Publisher: London : Sells
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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unk Pacific Rail-way*, whose property it is. Government aidw.i~ awarded tin- venture in terms whichdiffered according to the nature of theroute to be traversed. In the nnwtly ll.itcountry of the Prairie Provinces the stock. After leaving Edmonton the railwaytraverses a more broken country to WollCreek, 123 miles distant, at which point thewestei n or mountain division of the railwaymay be s.iiil to commence. ih the 1,774 miles which separate Winni-peg from Prince Rupert, the line is inoperation to Tctc Jaime in British Colum-bia, a distance ot i.oiji miles. Anotherlink of constructed line runs eastward from in fact, the shortest and most convenientbetween these cities. Amongst the towns which have sprungup as a result of the building of theline may be mentioned Rivers, Melville.Watrous, Biggar, Tofield, Edson, andJasper. It would be difficult to find anybetter illustration of the influence exercisedby the railroad over the development of thecountry than is contained in the bare state-
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1. INTERIOR OF A G.T.P. STANDARD SLEEPER. 2. INTERIOR OF A G.T.P. DINING CAR. assistance rendered by the Dominion tookthe form of a Government guarantee of thecompanys first mortgage bonds to theextent of $13,000 per mile. Bonds wereissued to produce a sum equal to 75 percent, of the cost of construction, and theguarantee was made to run for a period of50 years. The Grand Trunk Pacific main line, afterleaving Winnipeg, skirts the southern edgeof the Lake district of Manitoba untilIngelow is reached, where it strikes moresharply to the north-west, threading, on itsway to Edmonton, a new and wonderfullyarable agricultural country adapted to thecultivation of cereals and the raising of Prince Rupert, 303 miles, to Rose Lake, B.C.Work in the intervening country is beingcontinually prosecuted, and there is everyprobability that the railway will be oper-ated as a transcontinental railroad during1914 or early in 1915. The most prominenttowns in the Prairie Provinces served bythe main line of

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