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The newly constructed line between Port McNicoll and Betham 

 Junction, which is on the main line near Peterboro, now provides a 

 short route between east and west via the Great Lakes; and a new 

 line between Hamilton and Gnelph Junction links (melph, ('.alt and 

 Goderich closer to Hamilton than heretofore. 



In Western Canada the Company is building branches in many 

 directions, and in British Columbia its lines are being extended. 



The net earnings of the railway are rapidly growing. Ten yi 

 ago they amounted to $15,836,84578; last year they were nearly 

 $43,500,000, and this total will be largely exceeded in the fiscal year 

 now closing. 



\YhiIe the head offices of the Company are at Montreal, Toronto 

 is an important centre from which radiate lines to different point- 

 in the Province of Ontario. At present a new line is being: 1>nilt 

 from Toronto to Montreal following the shore of Lake Ontario 



THE CANADIAN NORTHERN SYSTEM. 



This system has grown within the last sixteen years from mi 

 miles to fully 7,000 miles of railway. It owns its own steamship*. 

 hotels and express and telegraph services. 



The component parts of the system at the present time are : The 

 Canadian Northern Railway from Port Arthur to \Yinnipetf and 

 through the West, serving all points of importance in Manitoba. 

 Saskatchewan, and Alberta, and the Canadian Northern Pacific 

 through the Yellowhead Pass to Port Mann and Vancouver; the 

 Canadian Northern Ontario Railway in the Province of Ontario. 

 the Canadian Northern Quebec Railway in the Province of Quebec, 

 with charter rights in the Province of New Brunswick, and the 

 Quebec and Lake St. John Railway; and the Halifax and 

 Western Railway in the Province of Nova Scotia. 



With the completion of the line now building from Montreal 

 through Ottawa and North Bay, the Sudbury-Port Arthur line, and 

 the gap from Yellowhead Pass to the Pacific coast, which is expected 

 in 1914. it will extend from coast to coast. And with the opening 

 of the Great Clay Belt, through the southern portion of which the 

 line between Sudbury and Port Arthur runs, some of the 

 agricultural land in Canada will be thrown open for settlement. The 

 railway enters the Clay Belt proper after crossing the Kapu basing. 

 where all the country is fit for settlement, and i- covered with a 

 splendid spruce forest which will provide profitable work for the 

 settler during the winter time, as there will be a ready market for 

 pulp wood at the various pulp mills which will follow the opening 



