would be significant, but perhaps a little indeli- 

 cate and shoppy in a coal merchant who has 

 been using the slogan in an endeavor to succour 

 Canada in her extremity, jl may sell coal, but 

 at least I can sell it as a gentleman. 



Nor will I attempt to survey the great 

 questions which are before Canada and before 

 the British Government in relation to Canada 

 at the present time. One may spend a lifetime 

 and gallons of ink and contribute very little in 

 the attempt to treat these vast subjects if one 

 takes them too widely. I am for the moment a 

 member of the British House of Commons, a 

 privilege of which I am proud, and from the 

 back benches of that historic chamber I take 

 my humble part with some 700 others in the 

 administration, or mal-administration, of some 

 of the affairs of all of the four hundred odd 

 million people comprising the Commonwealth 

 of Nations known as the British Empire. 



Realizes the Possibilities and Opportunities 



I have only been in Canada for a month, but 

 in that time I have had the great advantage of 

 meeting many Canadians distinguished and 

 undistinguished in all walks of life from Prime 

 Minister to laborer and even golfers, and I 

 have learned a great deal, particularly about 

 Eastern Canada, and I return to London 

 impressed more than ever with the resources, 

 the opportunities, the possibilities, the untapped 

 wealth of this vast Dominion, but realizing as 

 never before, and as it is not possible to realize 

 looking across from England, two great factors, 

 namely, the magnificent imperialism of the 

 Canadian people and their intense desire for 

 closer relationship, socially and commercially, 

 with the Old Country. 



One may be told that one need not look 

 further back than 1914 for more than ample 

 evidence of this, and it would be perfectly true. 

 But the war is now passing into history, and 

 the terrible trials and hardships of the aftermath 

 through which we are passing are so absorbing 

 that there is danger of our vision being obscured 

 and of our failing to appreciate and respond. 



The opportunity to visit Canada comes to 

 relatively few of the forty -five millions of our 

 people, and therefore I feel that those who are 

 fortunate enough to be able to see and learn 

 for themselves, particularly if they are men and 

 women in public life, carry a great responsibility. 



Montreal's New Industrial Area 



A new and promising industrial area has just been 

 opened up in Montreal. The town of LaSalle, lying 

 close to the heart of the city, which has remained indus- 

 trially neglected during the years less advantageously 

 situated areas have progressed in Montreal's industrial 

 development, is now to come into its own, and is assured 

 of a development which, taken in conjunction with its 

 natural commercial assets and advantages, ensures for it a 

 future of industrial activity which will be unsurpassed as a 

 manufacturing sector on the island of Montreal. This 

 assurance has but quite recently been given in the con- 



struction and completion of what is known as the " LaSalle 

 Loop" of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, a 

 branch railway line which runs from Cote St. Paul, on the 

 outskirts of Montreal proper, toHighlands, adjacent to the 

 bank of the St. Lawrence River, thence returning to Cote 

 St. Paul by way of the south bank of the Lachine Canal. 



Managed by a Go-ahead Council 



The town of LaSalle, a separate municipality, though 

 intrinsically a part of Greater Montreal and nearer to the 

 heart of the city than many sections of the city proper, 

 has been hampered in development in the past by lack of 

 transportation facilities, a drawback which resulted in its 

 being passed over by manufacturers in favor of more 

 remote and less fortunately situated areas. The eastern 

 limits of LaSalle, for instance, are less than four miles from 

 the centre of the city of Montreal, its business, financial 

 and postal hub, or less than half the distance of the 

 industrial area of the eastern end of the city, where 

 manufacturers in the past few years have flocked in 

 numbers. 



Admirably Located for Power and Transportation 



On the north-west, LaSalle touches the industrial city 

 of Lachine, and on the north, for a distance of three and a 

 half miles, the Lachine Canal, which is capable of sup- 

 plying water to large industries. It is bounded on the east 

 and south-east by two of the most important industrial 

 sections of the city of Montreal. Its southern and south- 

 western limits is the River St. Lawrence, just at the head of 

 the Lachine Rapids. The situation of the town is, in fact, 

 ideal, its principal handicap in the past being that the 

 greater part of its area was virtually cut off from the city 

 by lack of transport facilities, in which respect it had been 

 seriously neglected. 



The new railway loop operates through the heart of the 

 town and opens up a practically virgin territory of some 

 4,675 acres to industrial establishment, giving the area the 

 one essential it previously lacked in the eyes of manufac- 

 turers. This line, which adequately serves the territory, 

 connects with the Canadian Pacific main line at Highlands, 

 a line which is also used by the trains of the New York 

 Central Railway and Delaware and Hudson. The canal 

 itself, which is in reality a prolongation of Montreal 

 Harbou.-, provides excellent water transport facilities. 

 Good main roads already radiating from the town in all 

 directions give it adequate and rapid touch with all sections 

 of the Canadian metropolis. 



Site Level and Well Drained 



Not a factor would appear to be missing which might 

 in any way contribute to LaSalle's destiny as one of the 

 first industrial sections of Montreal Island. The entire 

 area is level and well drained. Further roads and sewerage 

 are assured to serve new industries locating. Factory 

 sites are the cheapest on th2 island of Montreal. Water 

 to any extent is assured. The Lachine hydraulics, located 

 within the town limits, ensures the delivery of power at low 

 rates, a provision which is guaranteed by a twenty-year 

 contract with the town. A partial exemption from 

 taxation is granted manufacturers locating there. 



No slight consideration is the provision of labor. The 

 Quebec labor market is the admiration of the American 

 continent, and in this respect LaSalle is in a particularly 

 enviable position. In the areas immediately tributary to 

 the town is a population of 65,000 industrial workers of 

 the most desirable class. An additional supply of labor 

 is available frbm the Caughnawauga Indian reserve across 

 the river, a classof worker whkhhasalready definitely proven 

 its value in industries already established within the area. 



At the present time passenger travel over the new Loop 

 Line to and through LaSalle is provided for by a motor- 

 propelled passenger car making connection with the 

 Montreal Tramways at Cote St. Paul and operating over 

 the six miles of line to Highlands, a journey occupying less 

 than half an hour between terminals. This brings 



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