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general ' pooling merger ' was effected by 

 which practically all Canadian lines came under 

 one control, from the lower Great Lakes, down 

 the St Lawrence, through the Gulf, and south 

 away to the West Indies. The title of this new 

 merger is the Canada Steamship Lines Limited. 

 The Canadian Pacific Railway Company 

 has half a dozen different fleets at work : one 

 on the Atlantic, another as a trans-Pacific 

 line, a third on the Pacific coast, a fourth on 

 the lakes of British Columbia, a fifth on the 

 upper Great Lakes, and a sixth as ferries for its 

 trains. Thus, by taking the upper Great Lakes 

 and the West, it divides the trans-Canadian 

 waters with the Canada Steamship Lines, which 

 latter take the lower Great Lakes and the East. 

 A company whose annual receipts and expendi- 

 ture are balanced at not far short of two 

 hundred millions of dollars might well seem to 

 be all-important in every way, especially when 

 its shipping tonnage exceeds that of the Allans 

 by over thirty thousand. But this Chronicle 

 is a history of at least four hundred years ; 

 while the famous ' C.P.R.' has not as yet been 

 either forty years a railway line or twenty years 

 a shipping firm. There is only one great C.P.R. 

 disaster to record. But that is of appalling 

 magnitude. Over a thousand lives were lost 



