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THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY, 



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• The Canadiaa Museum," for tlie formation of ■n'liich the Canadian 

 Institute is making strenuous exertions, — and also a permanent home 

 for that Society. The very best situation ivoulJ doubtless be on the 

 vacant space at the intersection of Youge Street, Tvith the Grand Ter- 

 race, (where the Custom House and Soap Factory now stand) or south 

 of the Railway tracks facing the bridge from Yonge Street, as shown 

 on t)ie plan. There can be no good reason why the building should 

 not be sufficiently extensive to include a Merchants' Hall and Exchange 

 under the same roof, or offices for Telegraph Companies, Brokers, <fcc., 

 in its basement — or why it should not be as ornamental and imposing 

 as its centi-al position would require, or the purpose of its erection 

 demand. 



It is unnessary to advocate farther the adoption of some general 

 plan acceptable to all concerned, and suitable to the wants and wishes 

 of the public, for the advantages must be evident and manifold. There 

 ■would doubtless be considerable difficulty in bringing to a satisfactory 

 issue, a matter involving so many different interests, — but by the union 

 of the City Autliorities with the various Chartered Companies and the 

 appointment of a Board of Directors from among each to carry out a 

 plan suited to their common interests the most beneticial results would 

 be produced and instead of each acting independently of the other, 

 and adopting various and conflicting regulations, a bond of union 

 would be thoroughly cemented between them and plans might be 

 matured and carried out, on a scale so extensive and so perfect as would 

 be one of the greatest — the very greatest characteristic of Toronto. 



A Member of the Canadiax Institute. 



The Grand Trunk Railway Comp.iny. 



Appendix to Uie Prospedus, 



The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, -with the Atlantic and St. 

 Lawrence Railway of Maine, 1,112 miles in length, with an unifoim 

 gauge of five feet six inches, as now brought under the notice of tlie 

 British public, offers the most comprehensive system of railways in the 

 world. Protected from the possibility of injurious competition, fur 

 nearly its entire length, by natural clauses as well as by Legislative 

 enactment, it engrosses the traffic of a region extending 809 miles in 

 one direct line from Portland to Lake Huron, containing a population 

 of nearly three millions, in Canada, Vermont, New Hampshire and 

 Maine. At Portland it connects with the sj'stem of railways reaching 

 eastward towards the Province of New Brunswick, and hereafter to 

 Halifax in Nova Scotia, as well as southward, by hues already existing 

 to Boston aud New York. At the frontier of Canada it again unites 

 ■with other lines to Boston and the great manufacturing districts of New 

 England. From Richmond it runs eastward to Quebec and Trois 

 Pistoles, 253 miles, giving direct access to the great shipping port of 

 Canada in Summer, aud hereafter by rail to the Atlantic at Halifax by 

 Trois Pistoles and Miramichi, fornnug the only route to the great fish- 

 eries of the Gulph of the St. Lawrence, aud the eastern timber, coal, and 

 mineral district of New Bruubwick. At Montreal it again meets three 

 railways now in operation between Boston and New York. At Pres- 

 cott it receives the tributary line from Bytown and the west timber 

 districts of the Ottawa, sixty miles, now in course of eai'ly completion ; 

 and on the opposite side of the St. Lawrence, the Northern New York 

 road to Ogdeusburgh will pour its stream of passenger traffic upon the 

 Trunk Line. At Kingston the Rmne and St. Vincent lailioad, also 

 from New York, becomes its tributary. From thence to Toronto it 

 receives the entire pnKluce of the rich country North of Lake Ontario, 

 through the channel of Belleville and Peterborough branch, and several 

 other new lines already in progress to construction, and all tributary to 

 the Main Trunk Road. At Toronto, the Ontario, Simcoe, and Huron 

 Railroad, lOll miles, now nearly finished, pours in the traffic of the 

 region around Lake Simcoe aud Georgian Bay. At the same point is 

 also met the Great Westein Railway by Hamilton to Detroit, 240 miles 

 now in a forwar i state of completion, by which communication is had 

 withtlie southern part of Western Canada, as well as with the Railways 

 in operation from Detroit to the States of Michigan, Illinois, and Wis- 

 consin. 



From Toronto, westward, the line passing through the henrt of tlie 

 western Peninsula of Canada, ensures to the Grand Trunk tlie e.xclu- 

 sive traffic of the finest part of the Province ; while at its termiuus at 

 Sarnia it debouches at the very outlet at Lake Huron, avoiding the 



shallows of the Detroit and St. Clair Rivers below — a point the most 

 favorably situated for the navigation extending through Lakes Huron 

 and Michigan, and hereafter through Lake Superior. At Sarnia, the 

 Amei^icau railroads now in course of construction place the Grand 

 Trunk Line in the most direct communication witli the arterial line to 

 the Great Western and the Mississippi, a region whose advance in 

 population and wealth has been regarded as almost fabulou.s, and yet 

 whose resources are still very partially developed ; while the traffic of 

 the copper and iron districts of Lake Superior, the most valuable and 

 extensive iu the world, with the coal of Michigan, will accumulate on 

 the railroad at this poiut, reaching ocean navigation at Montreal in much 

 less time and by the same milage that it can now pass by boat to the 

 waters of Lake Ontario, 350 jiiiles above that city. 



The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, it will therefore be seen, com- 

 mencing at the debouche of the three largest lakes in the world, pours 

 the accumulating traffic in one unbroken line throughout tlie entire 

 length of Canada, into the St. Lawrence and Quebec, on whicli it rests 

 on the north, while on the south it reaches the magnificent harbor of 

 Portland and St. John's on the open ocean. The whole future traffic 

 between the western regions aud the east, including Lower Canada, 

 parts of the States of Vermont and ^evr Hampshire, the whole of the 

 State of Maine, and the Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, 

 Prince Edward's Island, and Newfoundland, must therefore pass over 

 the Grand Trunk Railway. 



This great and comprehensive scheme of railway communication 

 throughout the most wealthy, populous and important colonial de- 

 pendency of Great Britain, is not now offered as a new project to the 

 public. It comes with the guarantee of the Province of Canada, which 

 has embarked upward of two millions sterling in the enterprise ; it is 

 supported by the most intelligent, far-sighted men in the colony ; and 

 it has the security of nearly lialf a million sterling of private Canadian 

 capital invested therein, while a conviction of the great benefits of 

 unanimous action has provided a combination of railway interests pro- 

 bably never before seen, and ensuring such an energetic and harmoni- 

 ons working of the entire line, as cannot but produce the most satisfac- 

 tory results. 



The Grand Trunk Railway does not rest for its success altogether on 

 anticipations. The entire section from Portland to Montreal, of 290 

 miles, is now in operation for 250 miles, and will in July next be fully 

 cuuuircted, making the shortest and most easy communication between 

 the River St. Lawrence and the Atlantic Ocean. This part of the line 

 forms iu itself a complete railway, opening up an entirely new channel 

 for the Western trade, and giving an outlet iu winter for the produce 

 of Eastern Canada as well as that of Western Canada east of Kingston. 

 The line from Quebec to Richmond brings Montreal and Quebec with- 

 in si.v hours of each other, and opens to those cities the most direct 

 access to the ocean at Portland, Boston and New York, passing througli 

 a most populous and fertile part of Eastern Canada. To Montreal, 

 until the completion of the western section of the Trunk Line, the pro- 

 duce of the countries surrouudiug the great lakes is brought through 

 the most magniliceut inland navigation in the world ; and the opening 

 of the line to Portland at once secures tlie supply of the markets of 

 Maine, New Brunswick, aud Nova Scotia with breadstuffs, receiving 

 in return, viz: Portland, British and American manufactured goods. 

 West Indian produce, Ac, The lines from Montreal to Portland, aud 

 from Richmond to Quebec, already kno'wn as the St Lawrence and 

 Atlantic aud Quebec and Richmond Railways, will be in full and c<m- 

 tinuous operation in the course of the present summer, comprelieiuliug 

 390 miles of railway, for which the capital lias been entirely provided 

 with a very small exception. The receipts on 72 miles iu Canada, 

 from the mere local business, from the first twelve months from their 

 opening on the 20th of October, 1851, were .£34,000. On 91 miles of 

 the line from Portland, now under lease, were, for the same period, 

 £38,000. Assuming the same rate per mile on the entire distauce of 

 39(1 miles, a gross income of £172.300 will be at ouce obtained from 

 local business; ■while the total traffic, if estimated by the receipts per 

 mile of the Ogdensbnrgh road, £25 per mile per week, the latest 

 American railroad offering any jjaraUel, will amount to a sum of £507- 

 000, independent of the great future development of the country opened 

 up by the line. It may be assumed that the revenue of the Company, 

 from the sections to be completed in 1853, will not f'^tU short, at once' 

 of 304,200 per annum, net, allowing 50 per cent for working expenses' 

 aud deducting £GO,IIO;') for lease i^f Portland line, would leave yirarhj 

 equal to till' c/iarffn for iJif entire morhingr debt of the. Company, and thna 

 from actuaJ prcsi.nl earninf/x seciirinr/ to the bondholders their interest on all 

 the capital intended to be raised by debentures. 



It is proposed simultaneously with the construction of the railroad 

 westwai d, to proceed with the. bridge over the St. Lawrence at Mon- 

 treal. A work of this stupendous cliaracter, requi]Gd to sjian a naviga- 

 ble river of two miles iu width, can ouiy be uiulertakon by a large 

 combined capital, and is justified by its paramount importance. The 

 site selected is at the sole point of the river St. Lawrence, from the great 



