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canal, with a lock eight-hundred feet long, eighty feet 

 wide and twenty-one feet deep. The former lock was 

 five hundred and fifteen feet long, with a sixty foot en- 

 trance, eighty feet inside, and about fourteen feet six 

 inches deep. The Canadian Government has made 

 theirs a thousand feet long and sixty feet wide through- 

 out. 



There is no object lesson equal to this American 

 Canal in demonstrating the enormous resources of the 

 great Northwest. As far as the eye could reach in 

 both directions I saw an unending procession of vessels 

 bound both up the lakes and down ; those passing 

 down being loaded to the deep water line with iron 

 ore, grain, lumber, etc. ; those passing up, with coal 

 and general merchandise. And so it is every day 

 while navigation is open. 



What a lot of people with diversified pursuits our 

 Canadian Pacific steamer was carrying ! Sitting op- 

 posite to me at table was a typical Englishman, 

 formerly a coffee planter in Ceylon but now a large 

 land proprietor in Manitoba. Another Englishman 

 had been out to the East Indies elephant shooting and 

 was on his way to the Rocky Mountains to try his 

 hand on the grizzly bear. He was a strenuous advo. 

 cate of the Martini-Henry rifle for large game and 

 wouldn't think of shooting a Winchester (probably 

 because it is American). A number of passengers 

 were going to shoot prairie-chickens, ducks, etc., others 



