Photograph from Government Publicity Department, Sydney 



GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, SHOWING TOWN HALL 



Sydney, the metropolis of New South Wales and likewise its capital, is an English city, 

 although on every hand there may be seen American goods advertised for sale. This city, 

 the oldest in Australia, was founded by Capt. Arthur Phillip in 1788 and is the continent's 

 principal naval station. The deep water of its beautiful and nearly landlocked harbor is 

 almost without shallows up to the edge of its rocky shores. With the possible exception of 

 Melbourne, Sydney is the most important commercially of any of the British ports of the 

 South seas. The city is in a particularly picturesque spot and notable for the many hand- 

 some public buildings, parks, and gardens, which, together with its wide, clean streets, give 

 it the appearance of one of the more attractive European capitals. 



Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were 

 loath to accept the government proposed 

 and were only brought in by an agree- 

 ment that a railroad should be built con- 

 necting Halifax with Quebec. It is an 

 interesting and somewhat singular fact 

 that the later union of the far western 

 provinces with the Dominion was also 

 conditioned upon the establishment of 



communication by railway between On- 

 tario and Quebec and the Pacific coast. 

 The statesmen and Parliament of the 

 mother country assisted in every way the 

 adjustment of the differences that arose 

 in creating the Dominion and embodied 

 in the British North America Act the re- 

 sult of the Quebec Conference. Prince 

 Edward Island was incorporated in the 



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