Some Startling Facts Relating To The Canadian Pacific Railway And The North West Lands

Author : Charles Horetzky
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ISBN 13 : 9781330527900
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Some Startling Facts Relating to the Canadian Pacific Railway and the North-West Lands, Also a Brief Discussion Regarding the Route, the Western Terminus and the Lands Available for Settlement (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Horetzky and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Startling Facts Relating to the Canadian Pacific Railway and the North-West Lands, Also a Brief Discussion Regarding the Route, the Western Terminus and the Lands Available for Settlement Various indications point to the existence of a wide spread and rapidly growing feeling of dissatisfaction and distrust throughout the older provinces of the Dominion, with regard to the adopted route and construction of that portion of the Canadian Pacific Railway which traverses the "Rocky Mountain" and "Cascade" Zones, and terminates at Burrard Inlet. The main difficulty in the construction of the Pacific Railway is encountered in the "Cascade" or Coast range, through which any line from the interior of the Continent must pass in order to reach the coast. All surveys made hitherto have been met by this grave obstacle. The "Yale," "Bute Inlet," "Kemsquit," and "Skeena" routes are all, owing to this impediment, well nigh impracticable, and the adoption of any one of them could only bo justified, were it to lead to tangible advantages beyond. No such advantages exist, the entire seaboard being but the adamantine buttress of a mountain range, one hundred miles in width. The seaboard again, although pierced by countless Inlets, and presenting on the map a most favourable appearance, offers in reality very grave obstacles to the mariner, because of the nearly universal dearth of good anchorages. On the whole mainland coast there is but one really good natural harbour - Port Simpson. All others have drawbacks in a more or less degree. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.