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the expense of little beyond the cost of a new hat. It will be 

 opening a new artery through which the richest national life-blood 

 will flow to the heart of the Canadian nation, and will be the 

 master-stroke of the world in the nineteenth century. Who is there 

 that will not hope that Sir John, who has earned for himself the 

 title of architect of the Canadian nation, will crown a brilliant 

 political career by opening the Hudson's Bay route. It would be 

 of all the public acts of his life that which would do most to 

 promote British progress in the Dominion. It would be to the 

 world a revelation, discovering to man the possibilities of future 

 great Canadian importance. 



