IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I 1^148 |2.5 • 5 "^^ !■■ 1.8 '^ 140 1-25 i 1.4 IlllJi^ V Hiotographic Sdences CorpoiBtion 73 WiST MAIN STRIET WEBSTER, NY. USSO (716) 872-4503 :0^ |\ iV <^ [V ^ \ '^V I/.. ^ CIHM/ICMH Microfiche Series. CIHM/ICMH Collection de microfiches. Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions / Institut Canadian de microreproductions historiques Ttfchnieal and BlbHographlc NotM/Not«« tschniquM &t bibliographiquM Th« Inttitut* luM attamptMl to obtain tha boat original copy avallabia for fUmlng. Faaturaa of thia copy which may ba MMIographloally unlqua. wMch may altar any of tha Imagaa In tha raproductlon, or vvhleh may algnlflcantly ohanga tha uaual mathod of filming, ar« chackad balow. D D D D Cdourad covara/ Couvartura da coulaur I I Covara damagad/ Couvartura andommag4a Covara raatorad and/or lamlnatad/ Couvartura raataurAa at/ou pallicuMa Covar titia miaaing/ Li thra da couvartura manqua Coiourad mapa/ Cartaa gtegraphlquaa an coulaur Coiourad Ink (l.a. othar than blua or black)/ Encra da coulaur (l.a. autra qua blaua ou noira) I I Coiourad plataa and/or illuatrationa/ n Planchaa at/ou illuatrationa an coulaur Bound with othar matarial/ RaM avac d'autraa documanta Tight binding may cauaa shadowa or diatortion along intarior margin/ La raliura aarrAo paut cauaar da I'ombra ou da la diatortion la long da la marga IntAriaura Blank laavaa addad during raatoration may appaar within tha taxt. Whanavar poaaibia, thaaa hava baan omlttad from filming/ II ta paut qua cartainaa pagaa blanchaa aJoutAaa lora d'una raatauration apparaiaaant dana la taxta. maia, loraqua cala Atait poaaibia. caa pagaa n'ont paa At* filmiaa. Additional commanta:/ Commantairaa auppl4mantairaa: L'Inatltut a microfilm* la malllaur axamplaira qu'll lul a it* poaaibia da aa procurer. Laa d*taila da cat axamplaira qui aont paut-ftra unlquaa du point da vua bibllographlqua. qui pauvant modlf iar una imaga raproduita, ou qui pauvant axigar una modification dana la m*thoda normala da f ilmaga aont lndiqu*a ci-daaaoua. I — I Coiourad pagaa/ D Pagaa da coulaur Pagaa damagad/ Pagaa andommag*aa Pagaa raatorad and/oi Pagaa raataur*aa at/ou pallicul*aa Pagaa diacoiourad, atainad or foxai Pagaa d*color*aa. tachat*aa ou piqu*aa Pagaa datachad/ Pagaa d*tach*aa Showthroughy Tranaparanca Quality of prir Quaiit* in*gala da I'impraaalon Inciudaa aupplamantary matarii Comprand du mat*rial auppl*mantaira Only adition avallabia/ Saula *dition diaponibia □ Pagaa damagad/ Pagaa r~~| Pagaa raatorad and/or lamlnatad/ □ Pagaa diacoiourad, atainad or foxad/ Pagaa r~~1 Pagaa datachad/ |~~| Showthrough/ |~~| Quality of print variaa/ |~~| Inciudaa aupplamantary matarial/ I — I Only adition avallabia/ Pagaa wholly or partially obacur»i by arrata alipa, tiaauaa, ate, hava baan rafiimad to anaura tha baat poaaibia imaga/ Laa pagaa totalamant ou partiallamant obacurciaa par un fauillaw d'arrata, una palura. ate, ont *t* film*aa * nouvaau da fa^ion * obtanir la maillaura imaga poaaibia. Tl to Tl P< of fil Oi bf th ait oti fir ale or Th Shi Tir w»i Ma dill am bat rigl raq ma Thia itam ia filmad at tha raduction ratio chackad balow/ Ca documant aat film* au taux da r*duction indiqu* ci-daaaoua. 10X 14X 18X 22X 26X 30X 7 3 12X lex »x 24X 28X 32X 9 Itails • dH nodiftor ir un« ilm«o« Th« copy film«d h«r« has b««n r«produc«d thanks to tha ganarosSty of: Library Division Provincial Archival of British Columbia Tha imagas appaaring hara ara tha bast quality possibia considaring tha condition and lagibility off tha original copy and in kaaping with tha filming contract spacifications. L'axamplaira f ilm4 f ut raproduit grica i la gAnAroait* da: Library Division Provincial Archival of Britiih Columbia Las imagas suivantas ont Ati raproduitas avac la plus grand soin. compta tanu da la condition at da la nattat* da l'axamplaira fiimA. at an conformitA avac las conditions du contrat da filmaga. Original copias in printad papar covars ara filmad baginning with tha front covar and anding on tha last paga with a printad or illustiatad impras- sion. or tha back covar whan appropriata. All othar original copias ara filmad baginning on tha first paga with a printad or illustratad impras- sion. and anding on tha last paga with a printad or illustratad imprassion. Tha last racordad frama on aach microficha shall contain tha symbol — «<> Imaaning "CON- TINUED"), or tha symbol V (moaning "END"), whichavar applias. Las aKamplairas originaux dont la couvartura an papiar ast imprimis sont filmAs an commandant par la pramiar plat at 9n tarminant soit par la darnlAra paga qui comporta una amprainta d'imprassion ou d'illustration. soit par la sacond plat, salon la cas. Tous las autras axamplairas originaux sont filmAs an commandant par la pramiAra paga qui comporta una amprainta d'imprassion ou d'illustration at an tarminant par la darniira paga qui comporta una talla amprainta. Un das symbolas suivants apparaltra sur la darniira imaga da chaqua microficha. salon la cas: la symbols -^ signifia "A SUIVRE". la symbols V signifia "FIN". arrata to a palura. ion A Maps, platas. charts, ate. may ba fiimad at diffarant raduction ratios. Thoss too larga to ba antiraly includad in ona axposura ara filmad baginning in tha uppar laft hand cornar. laft to right and top to bottom, as muny framas as raquirad. Tha following diagrams illustrata tha mathod: 1 2 3 Las cartas, planchas. tablaaux. ate, pauvant Atra filmAs A das taux da rAduction diffArants. Lorsqua la documant ast trap grand pour Atra raproduit mn un saul clichA, il ast f ilmA A partir da I'angla supAriaur gaucha. da gaucha A droita. at da haut an bas. an pranant la nombra d'imagas nAcassaira. Las diagrammas suivants illustrant la mAthoda. 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 SPEECH OF MIR. DeCOBMOS ON 8BLB0TING THB BBST HARBOR IN BRITISH COLUMBIA POR A TBRHINUS OF THE PAOIPIO RAILWAY. -:o:- HANSABD REPORT (Oorrected.) HOUSE OP COMMONS. Thursday, 28th Feb., 1878. BUT TIBMIJIDB FOB THB PAOinO BAILWiY. MOTIOB VOB BBTUBII. Mr. DbCOSMOS moyed for a return ccntaining a complete copy of every special and general report of the Chief Eneineor and Acting Chief Engineer of the Canadian Pacinc Rail- way in possession of the Government, respecting the cost of constructing the line of the Canada Pacific Railway, (in- cluding the bridges) between the head of Bute Inlet una some place or port in Vancouver Island. Ue said the question that he proposed to raibe was of more immediate importance than that of the hon. the member for Van- couver (Mr. Bunster) in favourof bien- nial Puniaments. Ho would btiiio that the members on the floor of this IIouhc, the hon. the Minister of Public Works, the press, and the people generally, had been under an impression that, if the railway passed from Fort George to Bute Inlet, and thence to a first- class port on Vancouver Island, it would be necessary to expend ft vast sum of money in constructing the latter section. Now, he was persuaded, from reading the report of Mr. Fleming, issued during ttie past year, that he had never recommended that the rail- way should be constructed from the head of Bute Inlet to Vancouver Island at present; that there was nothing at all in the report to indicate that the railway should now be constructed on the mainland beyond Waddington Har- bour; but, that thence, a ferry should be used ♦« roach Vancouver Island until such time as the Dominion ^ould afford to complete this section of t.io railway ; and that thus a vast sum of monej', which was said to Ixj enor- mous — twenty millions of dollars — need not be expended at all. It was to get the report in favour of Wadding- ton Harbour being made a temporary terminus, if there were such a report, before the House, that this motion was made, in order that they might at once have the evidence that the railway need not be located on a lineobjoction- abie and injurious alike to the Domin- ion and to the Province of British Columbia. In saying this he begged to draw the attention of the House to a matter of very great importance in connection with select ing a jwrt as the woHtem terminu4 of this railway. He had before taken occasion to intimate to this House that there were only three porta south of British Columbia, in the terri- tory of the United States, where a trans-continental terminus on the Pacific could be established. The first was San Diego, near the 32nd parallel, on the Mexican bor- der, towards which the Texas Pacific Railway was now in progress. The next place where a railway ter- minated was San Francisco Bay. From that bay northerly, no other point could be made the terminus of a trans- continental railway, except Puget Sound, opposite Victoria. Vow, they would discover from this fact that, if the Canadian Pacific Railway were to become a competing lino with Ameri- can linos, the greatest caro should be used in, locating the route of the rail- way, and more especially the port on the Pacific where it should terminate. Ho doubted whether those who gave their attention to public statistics or the commercial interests of the Dominion in this House, had ever turned their attention to the position of San Franci8co,which, today,wa8 one of the. greatest commercial cities in the world. We had to look at the present position of San Francisco in oi-der to form a correct judgment as to where the terminus of our Pacific Railway «hould be located. In order to give the House some idea of the business done by San Francisco, and the impor- tance of that city, he would read some of its statistics for 1877, and would compare these statistics with those of the whole Dominion of Canada for 1877, now before the House. In the first place^ he would take the imports. The imports of Canada amounted to $99,327,962, the imports of the port of San Francisco, not including treasure, were 875,7 13,2r . That new country, scarcely thii / years old, had imported nearly is much *nerchandise as the whole of the Dominion of Canada. The exports of Canada were $76,876,393, while the exports of San Francisco, excluding treasure, were $61,91 1,237. The aggre- fate foreign trade of the pori of San ranoisco for last year was $137,624,- 609, within $40,000,000 of he bggre- i^UM 6i'd gate foreign trade of the whole of this dominion. In drawing attention to this fact, he again drew nttontion to the importance of selecting a port in the Pacific Ocean where we could Hucess- taWy compete with the ports of the States in a trans-continental and trans- pacific business. The total Cu8toi.^8 revenue of this Dominion from all ports was 112,000,000 and over ; the total Federal revenue received from the Jort of San Francisco alone was 8,803,034. If they took the port of Montreal, our largest commercial city, they found the total Customs colloctod there last year amounted to $3,878,607, while the port of San Francisco, in Customs alone, paid to the Federal ti'easury $6,692,432. As our object in taking this railway to the Pacific was not merely to open up the intor- yening country to settlement, but to engage in the commerce of the Pacific, he would show what proportion of the commerce of San Francisco \frent to other countries than the States and teriitories of the United States. There was merchandise, exclusive of treasure, to the amount of $44,351,425, sent from that port by sea to Europe and foreign countries on the shores of the Pacific Ocean ; $2,1-99,312 to New York by Panama ; $2,561,500 to New York by clipper; and $12,000,000 sent east by rail. The foreign imports of San Francisco amounted to $34,012,4dG ; the domestic imports— by Panama $3,700,788 ; by rail $18,000,000, and by clippers $20,000,000. One half of the imports •ame from the United States, ancl the other half from foreign countries round the shores of the Pacific Ocean and elsewhere. Another fact, showing the great country we had to contend with in building a terminus on the shores of the Pacific, was that the esti- mated value of the productions of Cali- fornia, ot all kinds, in 1877, was $144,650,000. The treasure exports in that year were $57,688,783, the treasure imports $6,242,855 and the total coinage of silver and gold at the San Francisco mint, and the largest coinage ever made at one mint in one year by any nation of the world was »4S),772,000. With regard to the shipping — and if anything would show and prove conclusively to this House and to this Ministry the necessity of selecting the most capacious and accessible port o.> the Pacific as our western terminus, it was the statistics of the arrival of vessels alone at San IVancisco : — the arrivals of American vessels from domestic ports last year numbered 3,482, with an aggregate ton- nage of 1,099,205 tons ; American ves- sels that came from foreign ports 274, an aggregate of 348,234 tons ; foreign vessels fVom foreign ports 246, with a total tonnage of 236,858 tons ; Ameri- can vessels coming in from fishing voyages 18, tonnage 4,501 ; American vessels from whaling voyages 16, ton- nage 2,270 ; making the aggregate number of vcpbcIh 4,036, with a total tonnage of 1.631,068 tons. Now, if a young community like San Francisco, only 30 joars old, had grown up to be such a giant in conimerce as to employ 4,036 vessels with a tonnage of nearly two millions, to do her business, it could be easily seen by this House that we required a first-class port on the Pacific in order to do the business of this Dominion. But he would further claim the in- dulgence of the House in oi-der to give some idea of the business done by railwavs which supplied the great port of San Francisco. The losing commercial newspaper of that city, in its admirable annual report of commerce and navigation for 1877, stated as follows : — " Our railroad progrees during 1874 was the most luarkcd of any year since the completion of the trans-continental road. During it, several narrow-gauge roads have been projected and built, while the Southern Pacific has been completed over hundreds of uiiles of territory and finished as far as Fort Yuma in Arizona, to which point trains with goo