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bond, his idea will work better when the 

 tariff walls of both his country and Canada go 

 down. 



Another traveller in the little group is loud in 

 praise of the Pacific ports. 



*' For my part," said I, " I have great faith 

 in the Hudson Bay route to Europe, if it is given 

 a fair chance. By it you save from the greater 

 part of the Prairie Provinces to Europe a thousand 

 miles of rail haul. True, there are said to be 

 dangers, but it is well known the St. Lawrence 

 route, especially through the Strait of Belle Isle, 

 is not free from such, and the Hudson Bay 

 Company have, I believe, been sending ships 

 for two hundred years with very few losses. It 

 is also an interesting thought that this route 

 is on the line of that North- West Passage to the 

 East which British navigators dreamed of and 

 sought for so many weary years, and which may, 

 with the aid of railroad facilities, even now in 

 progress, become an accomplished fact." 



A few hours later, and forest, rock, and lake 

 begin gradually to give way to flat, open spaces, 

 and it is interesting to notice how little by little 

 the country changes into the open prairie, with 

 farms here and there ; and soon the great train 

 rolls into Winnipeg. 



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