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TIME-RECKOKING- 



APPENDIX No. 1. 



Condensed time-tables, illustrative of the application of the cosmo- 

 politan system of time-reckoning, to railway and steamboat com- 

 munications. The great mail and passenger route now being 

 established through Canada is selected as an example. Table A is 

 arranged according to the present system. Table B is arranged for 

 cosmopolitan time. Table C is arranged for local time standards, 

 established by lettered meridians 15° of longitude apart, each vary- 

 ing one hour. The hours of the day are numbered from 1 to 24 

 instead of two sets from 1 to 12. 



TABLE A. — Arranged according to the prese.Tit system. 



Principal Stations, 



London , 



Dublin 



{en route) 



W. Coast Ireland 



(at sea) 



(at sea) 



(at sea) 



(at sea) 



St. John, Newfoundland . 



(en route) 



St. George, Newfoundland 

 Shippigan 



(en route) 



Eiv. Du Loup 



Quebec 



Montreal 



(en route) 



Ottawa 



NiPPISING 



L. Superior 



(en route) 



Fort William 



Keewatin 



Selkirk 



(en route) 



Livingston 



Saskatchewan 



Battleford 



Edmonton 



(en route) 



montbrun 



Yellow Head Pass .... 

 Tete Jaune Cache 



(en route) 



Pacific Ocean 



8.00 p.m 



8.00 a.m 



1st noon 



1.00 p.m 



2nd noon 

 3rd noon 

 4th noon 

 5th noon 



9.00 a.m 



Gtli noon 



6.00 p.m 



10.00 a.m 



7th noon 



10.00 p.m. ...... 



2.00 a.m 



8.00 a.m 



8th noon 



1.00 p.m 



8.30 p.m 



10.00 a.m 



9th noon 



3.30 p.m 



1.30 a.m 



6.00 a.m 



. . 10th noon 



3.00 p.m, 



9.30 p.m 



1.00 a.m 



9.20 a.m 



. . 11th noon 



2.15 p.m 



7.00 p.m 



8.15 p.m 



. . 12th noon 



11.30 p.m 



Greenwich time 



Irish time 



Irish time 



Irish time . . . . , 



Ship's time 



Ship's time , 



Ship's time 



Ship's time 



Newfoundland time 

 Newfoundland time 

 Newfoundland time 

 New Brunswick 

 New Brunswick 

 Quebec time 

 Quebec time 

 Quebec time 

 Quebec time 

 Quebec time 

 Huron time 

 Superior time 

 Superior time 

 Superior time 

 Manitobah time 

 Mantiobah time 

 Mantiobah time 

 Saskatchewan time 

 Saskatchewan time 

 Athabasca time . . . 

 Athabasca time . 

 Athabasca time .... 

 Athabasca time .... 

 Rocky Mount'n time 

 Rocky Mount'n time 

 Rocky Mount'n time 

 B. Columbia time . . 



Slower 



THAN 



Grken- 



WICH. 



0.00 

 0.25 



1.00 

 1.40 

 2.20 

 3.00 

 3.30 



4.30 

 5.00 



5.30 

 6.00 



6.30 



7.00 

 7.30 



<( 

 it 



8.00 



CI 

 it 



8.30 



