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this year, and a thorough connection over the Canadian 
Pacific system will then be made between the sea ports 
of Eastern Canada and the Rocky Mountains. 
It may not be out of place here to refer to an interest- 
ing statement presented to the Canadian Parliament 
which gives an insight into the working of the Federal 
System in the Dominion. The total amount expended 
by the Federal Government for public works since 1867, 
the year of confederation, was $143,400,000, of which 
$93,600,000 was on capital account, and $49,800,000 from 
income. Of this sum no less than 90^ million dollars 
was expended on railways, 31 million dollars on canals, 
and 15! million dollars on public buildings, harbours 
and breakwaters. 
I have endeavoured to sketch the Dominion of Canada 
as it exists in the ' living present,' and I have touched 
upon her public works, her resources, and her purchasing 
power, with the future of greatness that undoubtedly 
awaits her. This part of my paper is a patch-work 
gathered from all the sources of information I could lay 
my hand on, with some statistics from this magazine, 
paragraphs from that article, and scraps of the latest 
intelligence from the Colonies and India. I plead guilty 
to plagiarism, but I also claim that plagiarism was un- 
avoidable, for in the absence of statistical works of 
reference 1 have been obliged when annexing facts and 
figures sometimes also to adhere to the setting in which 
they were framed. I do not believe the deductions are 
in any way exaggerated, I rather would assume it 
to be the reverse, for most of the figures I have 
quoted are drawn from the Returns of 1881-2, and since 
then Canada has not stood still but has added largely 
