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Superior at Duluth and the eastern end of the 

 St Lawrence system at Belle Isle, a distance of 

 no less than 2340 miles. 



But even the mighty St Lawrence, with the 

 far-reaching network of its connecting systems, 

 is not the whole of Canada's waters. The 

 eastern coast of Nova Scotia is washed by the 

 Atlantic, and the whole length of British 

 Columbia by the Pacific. Then, there are 

 harbours, fiords, lakes, and navigable rivers not 

 directly connected with either of these coasts 

 or with the wonderfully ramified St Lawrence. 

 So, taking every factor of size and significance 

 into consideration, it seems almost impossible 

 to exaggerate the magnitude of the influence 

 which waterways have always exerted, and are 

 still exerting, on the destinies of Canada. 



Canada touches only one country by land. 

 She is separated from every other foreign 

 country and joined to every other part of the 

 British Empire by the sea alone. Her land 

 frontier is long and has given cause for much 

 dispute in times of crisis. But her water 

 frontiers — her river, lake, and ocean frontiers — 

 have exercised diplomacy and threatened com- 

 plications with almost constant persistence 

 from the first. There were conflicting rights, 

 claims, and jurisdictions about the waters long 



