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no estrangement of the North- West from the grand Canadian Con- 

 federation; but, on the contrary, a scheme of national development, 

 measures that will restore immigration and revive commercial enter- 

 prise in the North-West, and raise Canada still higher in the 

 estimation of the world. 



The reader will observe that the accompanying map shows other 

 railways for the North- West aside from those running to Hudson's 

 Bay. There is a line from Winnipeg to Port Moody — the Cana- 

 dian Pacific ; a line virtually from Winnipeg, vid Battleford, to 

 Bute Inlet — the Manitoba Central ; and a line from Winnipeg to 

 Port Simpson, vid Prince Albert and the Pine River Pass. The 

 first is almost completed, the second is mostly chartered, and the 

 third is under construction. No doubt in the future they will all 

 reach the Pacific Ocean. 



There is a future of great possibilities in store for Canada, and 

 especially for the Canadian North-West. The distance between the 

 Canadian people and these possibilities will be greatly reduced or 

 annihilated altogether, by the establishment of the Hudson's Bay 

 route between the prairie country and the markets of Europe. 



