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(18) Journey of the Marquis of Lansdoivne, 1885. 



The Goveruor-Creueral, the Marquis of Lausdowue, accompauied by his statF, Lord 

 Melguud and Mr. Ausou, left Ottawa ou September 24th by the Caiiadiau raciiic Rail- 

 way, then uninterruptedly available for traffic by the north shore of Lake Superior. At 

 Du.umore, the i)oint of junction of the narrow-gauge coal-railway, His Excellency pro- 

 ceeded to the mines at Lethbridge. From Lethbridge he travelled ou horseback to Fort 

 McLeod, and thence to Calgary, where he rejoined the main line of railway. From 

 Calgary, Lord Lausdowue passed by train to the end of the track then at a point in the 

 Selkirks, eighteen miles east of the second crossing of the Columbia. At this point 

 commenced the gap of forty-seven miles of irnfinished work referred to. Two days were 

 taken to ride over this section, on the last stage of which he met, as previously stated, the 

 party of Sir Charles Tupper travelling eastward. "When the railway track from the west 

 was reached, Lord Lausdowue and his party took the train and followed it to the theu 

 terminus, Port Moody, on Burrard Inlet. Crossing the Strait of G-eorgia to Victoria on 

 October 6th, he was received with every mark of respect, and in his address at the 

 banquet given him, he remarked that until the present occasion no other governor-general 

 had been able to make the journey entirely through Canadian territory. Eemaining some 

 few days at Victoria, the party visited the coal mines at Nanaimo ; they left on the 14th 

 for New "Westminster. The following day they took the train at Port Hammond, and 

 remained over a short time at Yale, Lytton, Dryuock, and other poiuts. The party 

 reached the end of the track on the morning of the l*7th. They here again resumed the 

 saddle, but in the interval of the thirteen days since they passed westward, the gap 

 had been reduced to twenty- eight miles ; this distance was accomplished in one day. 

 The train took the party to Winnipeg, where His Excellency was received by the 

 authorities, and entertained at a banquet. In the speech made by him, like each of his 

 two immediate predecessors on similar occasions, he gave a narrative of what he had 

 seen, and spoke of the bright future, which he confidently anticipated. He reached 

 Ottawa by way of Chicago, on October 26th, having made the double journey in little 

 more than a mouth. Lord Lansdowne's trip was the first occasion on which the new 

 railway route had been followed in both directions across the mountains on the same 

 overland journey. 



(19) First through train by the Canadian Pacific Railway, 1885. 



The writer has thus described the several overland journeys to the Pacific, undertaken 

 previously to the completion of the Canadian national railway. He has endeavored to 

 make the catalogue complete, and has included every through Canadian journey of which 

 he could find any account. The important epoch is now reached when the necessity 

 for all such expeditious has for ever passed away. 



It has been stated that when Lord Lausdowue passed through the mountains ou his 

 way homewards, there remained twenty-eight miles of rail track to be laid, to complete the 

 connection through the mountains. Nine days later, on October 26th, the GrOA'ernor- 

 Gcneral arrived at Ottawa. 



On the evening of October 27th, when the regular Wiunipeg train left Montreal, a 



