18 ROYAL FOCIETY OF CANAI'A 



This accumulating' tonnage frcuii «uir wcsU-ni plains and our eastern 

 forests must call for a proportionate extension of export facilities which 

 should attract tonnage to the St. Lawrence. Already ^Montreal has 

 eighteen regular lines of steamers to transatlantic ports, exclusive of 

 tramps. New York alone of the Atlantic ports exceeds this in number, 

 ^lontreal has five regular lines to Liverpool and the same nuinl)er lo 

 London, two lines to Glasg.j\v and two to Hamburg, and one each to 

 Bristol, Manchester, Belfast and Antwerp. Baltimore has twelve regular 

 lines of steamships to Europe, Boston nine, and Pliiladclphia eight. No 

 doubt all these x\tlantic lines exceed Montreal in number and tonnage 

 of vessels as well as in cargo carried, as they have twelve months naviga- 

 tion against seven for the St. Lawrence. The real significance of Mont- 

 real's eighteen regular lines of steamships is the demonstration, 

 that, in spite of climatic drawbacks, or inferiority in other respects, the 

 St. Lawrence is the route towards which northern exports will gravitate 

 during its open season. 



The "Water Power" map has been prepared by the Surveyor- 

 General of the Dominion, E. Deville, F.E.S.C., under instruction from 

 the iTon. the Minister of the Interior. 



I am indebted to the Director of the Meteorological Service, R. F. 

 Stupart, Esq., for the tables of mean annual as well as minimum 

 precip'itation of rain and snow in all provinces, excepting British Colum- 

 bia. Some of these figures are printed upon. the map, in blue, to dis- 

 tinguish them from others in black showing the height of lakes, so far 

 as known, above tide level. 



The map will not be engraved in time to be bound with the ''Tran- 

 sactions," but will be distributed later. 



