ONTAkh 



uhaC is termed the K.i-Mn l>u; m \\innipeg in M..nr|.n, 



\ . i: . i -nmaied at i.Stm mile.s. i> being constructed at the cost of the 



mint-lit, and when finished will IK- K > rfand Trunk 



:ic Company |ur Tlu- entire main line from M melon, 



Prince Rni>ert. U.C., embraces an approximate mileage of 

 3,600 miles, and the projected branches, all of which both of the 

 t-rn and Western l)i\i>ion> will be built by the ('.rand Trunk 

 Pacific Company,- -ai^n -au- 44<x> miles, making a total proj. 

 mileage of main line and branches of 8,OO(> miles, which emlu.t 

 line to Dawsou in the Yukon territory. About 3.100 miles of track 

 ha been laid on the main line and there still remains a .section in 

 P..C. of aUmt 403 miles t be completed when the entire railway will 

 be connected U-tween the Atlantic and Pacific. About I.<MM> miles 

 of branch lines have been constructed to date. In < Mitario the line 

 will pass through the < '.ivat C'la\ llelt from ea^t to and assist 



materially in developing an iinnien-e area of agricultural laud at 

 MI iuace>xible. It includr- amount it^ branches in the Pn. 

 \ince a line of 1^5 mile- from the main line southward to l ; n 

 U'illiam and Port Arthur; also a line from the main line southward 

 \orth Hay. 



THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY. 



This great railway company, which was incorporated in 1881, 

 ha- now nearly i/,cxx) miles of completed road. With it- steamship 

 and rail system- its service reaches from Liverpool to Hong-Kong 

 more than half way around the globe. The O.P.R is something 

 more than a mere transportation compam. iV-i-lc- it- -u-am-hip- 

 on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, on the t'pper Lakes and on 

 the coast and inland waters of P,riti-h Columbia, the Company 

 o] it-rates a chain of hotels extending from Xew P.run-wick t. 

 P.ritish Columbia, owns its own telegraph and c\i> and 



its own sysu-in of sleeping, parlor and dining car-, and ha- vast irri- 

 gation works in the west, coal mines in the Rockies and smelters in 

 the mining regions of Southern P.ritish Columbia. It is also the 

 holder of millions ( ,f acres of fertile lands in Manitoba. Saskatch- 

 ewan and All>erta. 



The lines of the Canadian Pacific Company extend from St. 

 John. New P.runswick. an ocean port on the Atlantic, and fn.m the 

 city of (Juclxrc to Montreal, and after leaving the latter city the 

 main transcontinental line continue- up the valley of the Ottawa 

 r as far as Mattawa. where a branch extends northward to 

 Lakt- Timiskaming and Kipawa. From Mattawa it turn- westward 



