CHAPTER XLVII. 



Needed Railway Competition in the North-West. 



the railway system that ought to be encouraged — lines 

 competing with the canadian pacific railway required — 

 the end of monopoly. 



~T has been generally admitted that the Dominion Government 

 were fully justified in protecting the Canadian Pacific line 

 from undue competition until placed beyond the possibility of 

 failure, but it is as universally felt now that the time has come 

 when all restrictions should be thrown off, and the greatest latitude 

 given for the construction of lines to every market. The Canadian 

 Pacific will be open in a few months from ocean to ocean, and will 

 be a great boon to Canada, and to the North- West in particular, but 

 it cannot meet all the wants of that section. Other lines are neces- 

 sary. Other outlets are indispensable. In the first place they are 

 necessary as the Cananian Pacific line will not be able to move all 

 the products of that region ; and secondly, to secure needed compe- 

 tition, the only safeguard to the people. 



The roads from Winnipeg westward are the Canadian Pacific, 

 now almost completed to Port Moody. The Manitoba South-Western, 

 a portion of which is built should be extended south-westerly, 

 through the Souris country, and away across the International 

 Boundary to the Northern Pacific. The Manitoba and North- 

 Western, a portion of which is also in operation, should be extended 

 on to the Prince Albert, and to the Athabaska, and to the Peace 

 River, and through the Pine River Pass to Port Simpson, on the 

 Pacific Slope. The Manitoba Central, which has, as yet made but 

 little progress, should be pushed on to Battleford, and to Edmonton, 

 and to the headwaters of the Athabaska, and through the Rockies 



