Contents. xiii. 



Chapter XL VII. 



NEEDED RAILWAY COMPETITION IN THE NORTH-WEST. 



PAGE. 



The Railway System that ought to be Encouraged — Lines Competing with 



the Canadian Pacific Railway Required — The End of Monopoly 468 



Chapter XL VIII. 

 proving the Hudson's bay route. 



Inefficiency of the Stationary Parties to Determine the Period of Navigation 

 — The Period of Navigation to be proved only by Navigating the 

 Straits — True Value of Observing Stations 471 



Chapter XLIX. 



A PROPOSED TWO YEARS' TOTTR. 



The Best Method of Settling the Question of the Navigation of the Hud- 

 son's Bay Route — Necessity of Erecting Beacons and making a Survey 

 of the Coasts — A Winter Expedition Necessary 477 



Chapter L. 



OPENING THE HUDSON'S BAY ROUTE. 



Cost of the Proposed Enterprise — The Lines from Winnipeg and Prince 

 Albert to Churchill — One Thousand Miles — Twenty Wooden Steamships 

 — Twenty Millions of Dollars — Proposed Land and Cash Subsidy — A 

 Hudson's Bay Syndicate Wanted 481 



Chapter LI. 



COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE OF HUDSON'S BAY. 



The Hudson's Bay Basin — The Principal Rivers — Lumber, Minerals, Oil- 

 bearing Animal?, and Other Productions — Practicability of the Hudson's 

 Bay Route — Commercial Advantages of the Route 486 



Chapter LII. 

 the Hudson's bay route supported. 



The Debate in the House of Commons — Speech of Mr. Royal, Mr. Watson, 

 Mr. Casey, Dr. Orton, Mr. Dawson, Sir John A. Macdonald and Hon. 



, Mr. Blake— Faith Expressed in the Route — Its Advantages to the 



North- West — Its Importance to Canada — Proposed Expedition 499 



Chapter LII I. 

 the Hudson's bay route opposed. 



The Enterprise and Opposition of the Toronto Mail Newspaper — Misstate- 

 ment of Facts Contradicted and Explained — Why the Ocean Nymph 

 was Detained — Strange Detention of the Prince of Wales — The Cam 

 Owen finds the Strait Open Late in October 517 



