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 CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 /^elating to the Xon-fulfiltuent by the Dominion of Cannda of 
 that part of the Tenns of Confederation irhicli giiarantees 
 Efp^cient Steam Service for the Conveyance of Mails and 
 Passengers hetween Prince Edward, Island and the Main- 
 land. 
 
 To His Exo«li«ney, th« Right Henorabi* Sir Joiiii Dougias Cutiiariand Oampball (eom- 
 moniy oaliad tlia MarqHia of Lorna), Kniflit off tlia Moat Anolant and Moat Nobio 
 Ordor of tlia Thiatia, Knight Grand Oroaa of tha Moat Diatingulahad Ordar of St. 
 MIohaai and St. Ctaorgo, Oovarnor Oonorai of Oanada, and Vlea Admirai of tha 
 aama, &o.i &e., &o. 
 
 We, Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Legislative Council and House of 
 Assembly of Prince Edward Island, in General Assembly convened, approach Your 
 Excellency, and represent : 
 
 1. That upon the tirst day of July, 1873, Prince Edward Island entered the Con- 
 fedc;'ation of the I)ominior of Canada, upon cevtain terms and conditions set forth in au 
 Order of Her Majesty the Queen, in Council, dated 2Uth June, 1873. 
 
 2. That in the said terms and conditions of Union, it was expressly etipulated 
 that the Dominion Government should assume and defray all the charges for the es- 
 tablishment and maintenance of efticient Steam Service for the conveyance of Mails 
 and Passengeis between this Island and the Mainland of the Dominion, winter and 
 summer, so as to place this Island in continuous communication with the Intercolonial 
 Kailway and the liailway system of the Dominion. 
 
 3. That during no winter season intervening between the year 1873 and the 
 present time, has the Steam Service provided by ihe Dom i«yn Government been effi- 
 cient, or the communication with the Mainland in any degree continuous. 
 
 4. That during the first winter season after the Union, no attempt was made by 
 the General Government to provide such Steam Service; that during the two sabBe- 
 
 MAnilAnt. vrintAi* QAaoi^rio vrtw • fK#->aA r\^ t Q^ <-- Pfc «f^<l 1 Q^f^- I? o i«vf>f«/lA»% o*/^a«v«lv)P^ oall/wl 
 
 the Albert, was pla'sed upon the route between Georgetown and Pictou, but she failed 
 to perform the service satisfactorily. That at the commencement of the winter season 
 

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 ot 1870-7 a now Hteamor called tbo Nortf^em LUjht, which had been conetiuctcd ox- 
 pioBHiy for the work, waH placed upon the route. 
 
 5 That the records of the trips made by this Steamboat are inaccessible to uh, 
 but it'is notorious that those trips have been most irregular and unsatisfactory, and 
 that at times she has been detained, ice-bound, for periods ranging from ten to twenty- 
 four days, to the imminent danger of the Passengers and Mails. On more than one 
 occasion during the present winter, some of the Passengers, among whom were several 
 females and children, wore forced, after remaining on boai-d the vessel for several days, 
 to leave her and walk a distance of many miles to the shore, when night overtaking 
 thom, they received severe injuriea from cold and exposure, and one of them has been 
 crippled for life. 
 
 6 That the people of this Province have suffered great loss by reason of the 
 frequent interruption to the winter Steam Service, involving cxtraoi-dinary delay, not 
 only in the transmission of important leitere by mail, but also in the conveyance of 
 Passengers, thereby causing serious derangement to trade and immen.'e inconvenience 
 to the entire community. 
 
 7 That the experience of the last five years fully convinces us that the Steamer 
 Normm Light is totally unfitted to perform that efficient service undertaken y the 
 Dominion Government, and as we are of opinion that ample time has been allowed 
 for experiments, we submit that means should be adopted without further delay, to secure 
 to this Province continuous communication, in accoi-dance with the terms of Union. 
 
 8. That one of the principal inducements held out to this Province to enter the 
 Confederation, was the promise of constant communication with the Mainland, and the 
 prospect of participating in the benefits arising from the Intercolonial Railway and, 
 other Public Works, from which its inhabitants had been previously debarred for a large 
 portion of the year, and to the maintenance of which they are called upon to contribute, 
 without deriving any corresponding advantage. 
 
 9 We submit that the good faith of the Dominion Government is pledged to the 
 fulfilment of the compact of Confederation, involving the establishment and mainten- 
 ance of efficient Steam Service with the Mainland, and continuous communication with 
 the Intercolonial and other Dominion Railways, and we represent that Prince Edward 
 Island is justly entitled to receive from the Dominion, compensation for the non-ful- 
 filment by the Dominion Government of the terms of Union in the particular hore.n 
 mentioned. 
 
 Wherefore the Legislative Council and House of Assembly pray that Your Excel- 
 lency in Council will take the foregoing facts into your most serious consideration, and 
 adopt vigorous and immediate measures to remedy the grievance complaiued oi, and 
 cause to be placed at the disposal of Prince Edward Island, the compensation to wh-h 
 
 No. 
 
ted ox- 
 
 S to UH, 
 
 ry, and 
 twenty- 
 han ono 
 several 
 ul days, 
 irtaking 
 las been 
 
 1 of the 
 )lay, not 
 yance of 
 venience 
 
 Steamer 
 1 by the 
 allowed 
 to secure 
 Jnion. 
 
 enter the 
 , and the 
 
 way, 
 
 and 
 
 )r a large\ 
 intribute, 
 
 ed to the 
 raainten- 
 tion with 
 J Edward 
 3 non-ful- 
 ar herein 
 
 ur Excel- 
 Eition, and 
 
 -J _*• __#! 
 
 to wh?''H 
 
 And as in d„.y bound we will ever pray. 
 
 Cerilfiod, 
 
 JOHN BALL, C. L C 
 
 PfiKDKRlCK W. HUGHKS, A. C. H A 
 
 No. 18. — 
 
 PRovrvcK o. Ph,:,ck Eoward Tslan,,, 
 SfR.- Government House, 7th April, 1881. 
 
 C^»nlilt;,ts^o7AlXt HrpLL'r;,^^;!'- ^^ ^^^ I^e^islative 
 that .mmodiato measures may be adoptL bvth!Ti^ the Governor General, praying 
 Terms of Confederation with Pnnce £ ward li H ?""""" ^-«'-"'"«nt to fulfil the 
 etflcent Steam Service for the ToJtlZlTM-^' T'H^''^'^ ''"^ '""'"'--»« 
 Inland «,.,| the Mainland of the Domlion ml! Tl "^"""^"^ '^«'"-" t''^ 
 P.-ov,nce .n continuous communication wih/hern ?^^'""'"«'-. thus placing the 
 HyHtemofthe Dominion, and by 01!^^ bl nll'T '' '^^^ theRaliway 
 
 compensation for the failure on fhe parff the 0^ "' '^' "'^P^^"' «^ ^^e IsIanJ 
 
 alHo a .Toint Address f.-om the Counc'ld A sfm'h.""" '' '"''^ "'^ ^'^'^ ^-'"^ ' «nd 
 Address to His Excellency to be laid before tirn^' '"'^""*'"« ™« ^"^ ««"«« the said 
 
 I have the honor to be. 
 Sir, 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 T. HEATH HAVILAND 
 '^^^ ^^""'^'•"'^'« Lieutenant Go'vernor. 
 
 The Secretary of State, Ottawa. 
 
 - • Ottawa, 16th April, 1881. 
 
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 No. 9. 
 
 Sib:— 
 
 Pbovinck oi-' Prince Edwakd Island, 
 
 Governint5.it House, 28th Februuiy, 1882. 
 
 Mv Government having, by u iliuute of Council, monimendeU me to b. ing to the 
 notice of the Dominion Government that thi« Province i« yet without a reply from the 
 Privy Council of Canada to the Joint Addreh- of the Legislative Council and House ot 
 Asflemblv passed last Session, on the subject of the failure of the Dominion (.overn- 
 ment to carry out the terms of Confederation by providinu' continuous communicalion, 
 winter and summer, between this Island and the Mainland Provinces ot the Dominion. 
 As the General Assembly meets on the 7lh of March, my Government are anxious 
 to have the reply with as little delay as possible. 
 
 I have the honor to bo. 
 Sir, 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 T. HEATH HAVILAND 
 
 Lieutenant Governor. 
 
 The Honorable 
 
 The Secretary of State, (Jttawa. 
 
 421 
 
 on 
 
 1227. 
 
 Ottawa, 8th March. 1882. 
 
 m 
 
 vince of Prince J^^dward Islunc', in reference to the oHtabli-^hment and maintenance of ! 
 Steam service for the conveyance of Mails and Passengers between that Province and 
 
 the Mainland. , . .. i . i„ 
 
 1 have the honor to be, 
 
 Sir, 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 EDOUAIU) J. LANGEVIN, 
 
 Under Secretary of Slate. 
 
 His Honor 
 
 The Lieutenant Governor of 
 
 Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown. 
 
 I have the h3nor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch. No 9, of the 28tl 
 ult.. requesting a reply to the Joint Address of the Legislative Council and House o 
 
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 i ntuiiitonuiico of 
 inl I'mvincti und 
 
 NGKVIN, 
 
 ocreiury of Stale. 
 
 biuury, 1882. 
 
 mo to bring to llio 
 ta reply from the 
 moil und lluuse of 
 Dominion (joveru- 
 UH communicutioD, 
 b ot tbu Dominion. 
 
 nraent uro unxiouH 
 
 LAND 
 
 %nt Goverxtor, 
 
 h March. 1882. 
 
 I, No. y, of the 28tl 
 )uncil and House o 
 
 AHscmbly of the Province of hi„eo Kdwurd UU..\ . . • 
 
 respecting continuous con.municuti. n 10^0 J hat' P ^"''T ''''"• '^^ «-«'on. 
 
 vinccH of the Duminion. ^''"^ riov.nco and the Mainland Pro- 
 
 I have the honor to bo, 
 
 Sif, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 EDOUAIID J. LANGKVIN, 
 His Honor Under Secretary of State. 
 
 The Lieutenant (iovernor of 
 
 Piince Kdwurd Inland, Charlottetown. 
 
 ^' Edta'lr/sS"''^^ °' ^^'^^^^'^ <=— ^' or Prince 
 
 COUmt CHAMBER, 
 
 January 31st, 1883. 
 At a meeting of the Executive Council in Committee. 
 
 The HonorablcH MeusieurM 
 
 SULLIVAN, 
 CAMPBELL, 
 MACLKOD, 
 
 PRESENT: 
 
 FERGUSON, 
 
 PfiOWSK, 
 
 LEFUHGEY, 
 
 ARSi3. VAULT 
 
 the ^::t::::^:^^::z::^ --^^-^'- ^^« ^n- o. 
 
 Htipulatos that the Government of Canada ^h^^^^^^ 
 
 fortheestablishmentandmairtelteofe^^^^^^^^ '^''''^^ ^'' ^'^-^^rges 
 
 Mails and Passengers, between Prince Ed :a."irnran^^^^ '"I ''' ^«"-^-- of 
 ion, winter and summer, so as to place the iHland . ^^'"''*°^ °^ *^« ^^on^i^- 
 
 the Intercolonial Railway, and the 1^::;:;^ o^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^h 
 
 vi.celrS'iiitt::;!^^^^^^^^ 
 
 Bet forth the enormous di«advantagerundeTwhict^^f I" ^ ' ^''"'^° "' ^««^' ^-^- 
 by reason of the insufficiency of the mean?^!^^^^^ 
 
 pansengers. during the winter season 3 1 ^ '°'' '^' ''^'''^'''' ^^ ">«"« and 
 
 adoption of vigorous measures fo^t^;e:l?;;^"^"'" "«^« ^^ '^° --ediat. 
 
 as for the allowance of compensutionl,y"reas^7 tTT^''"?.*''"'""^ °'' ^ ''«» 
 2 i™ n oy reason of the non-fulfilment, in such 
 
Mg'n'b;' I'^^zt^Ttr"''"- ,:''" "'''"" "' "•'- A..d,.« „„.,„„ .,.,„„„. 
 to .b j;:ur.":i',iX"i::^ t::;it::i ""r'.'°" t '-» "''-™' «— - 
 
 receiptor the «id Add«« no .„ll.,7 J ■"[" ""^ ""' •'■''>>"»l«)gn,en. of the 
 oictL with the M.il7j P,.o iZ 'rth/w °'° ™r:'"''' ""»»"of-™m„. 
 plained of therein .till remain. Dominion, and that .ho griov.nce, com- 
 
 co„.dt":i?^?rj:;:rdrnr''i;'"° """"• " ™' "°' "'p-'«' "■« ">-•> 
 
 of the Wand patiently aw^ ted theV„ltof"."h"" "'"'""'"'r'»»." ^-t the inhabiUnt, 
 ion G„vemmr„,, •o'demon:?,! Te '^I ti :hX7tl T''"' ''>■"" l"""""" 
 Gulf of St. Lawrence. Tbo fntile alteraDUo ThlT^ the winter naviBation of the 
 last .even yean., to maintain "Z.?i.^!7 the steamer Mrlkern XiyA^ daring the 
 
 warrants .L aaJertir.h'aTsher X^ rrr°" '•' Z- 7°'"^ ■ ""^^'™- 
 weekH of winter in which Hh« ..„na ^ne seivKe, her tripn, during the few 
 
 oapacit, ^.-eedingiX^it^-rhV: ™e:::;;rrre^- ^- -■•^'"« 
 
 Of " etrnrctru^Ltrwit^ThTl^^^^^^^^^^ ',",: '?r^'^°"'"°" ™ ""' P'™'™ 
 of the Dominion."_A .erv rth.t tootd i' t"' ^t '""y """1 "■» ii"lw./,y„em 
 Hallway, with which .ueh rmmnnTc„,l '*"'""'«'''y """o-t and regular L the 
 
 waid Wand .hould h I .Tu^rci ltr°orTn.*°''''"'"'' ^7" "'°'''' ""^ P"°» *^- 
 thoM Province, enjoy botwZ thill ""tercoa™ with the other Pi-ovince-, a. 
 
 dialog fi^m the i~rrii- r!'T./: i: p"'M'"w"'r "■ •" "■» >»-'"» 
 
 from which It had formerly been delTL f^, . . ^'"''" "P"" "■« ''"i"'"'"'. 
 
 it contribute. Without ^i,t:lt:::^;XTalT "'°'°"'""'' '° ""'"" 
 
 the mail .. ce, in wbichTell of ™ 'r ""f ' '? '"^'o-l'tle. Irregularity of 
 eon«„nen. deraigoment of btfne^ T,T!. k" "T "•" """' "P«™oced,-.he 
 .trong and rob„.tl, able to irr.hed "*'''""' ^ ""''" °»ly the 
 
 -.he .0.., .toppag, of .urn,;:; for Wg^ "'Z^^'lr 'fh "'""' '■°°"»' 
 the disadrantage. attendine the nrm.,.! ™J oi me cbandize.-iheee are some of 
 thiaPi-ovinceaidtheMainliL "'"'"• ™'»°"'°io«lion between 
 
 Edwa:n:i:r i.tZirr^:"':"'"'""- '°'' "'°'"' ""- "^^ *'«'°'"^. !>''--« 
 
 (^nfederation in 1873 Nea^; .„ Veal haT: ',' "l"""" "' "» ^''^ •°'» "•» 
 one a^ru. attempt ha. hee^n ^.^^ t'Zo;X:r„r;or^rt tt 
 
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 ily acknow- 
 id upon the 
 )ly lequcht- 
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 ovornmont 
 nentof the 
 of commu- 
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 bat much 
 ihabitantH 
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 ion of the 
 uring the 
 xperience 
 : the few 
 carrying 
 
 promitio 
 y wystem 
 ar as the 
 •ince Ed- 
 incen, as 
 
 benefits 
 [ainland, 
 •0 which 
 
 Q conse- 
 larity of 
 5d,— the 
 ily the 
 routes ; 
 !>ome of 
 etween 
 
 Prince 
 ito the 
 nd but 
 ut the 
 
 the, .„.„ o„„, ..»t .hrt; "o^ti. Tn'";:; rrr""',"" •» "■" -v - "-ich 
 
 tat the Cunoil i„ Commiuee .re l».u d "'o „nZ .h """T"' <-™"""""«'i<>n," 
 
 attempt .... b.o„ „.de .o «o...,n,pli.r h . „Z r „i Z'tT" "' '""' ° ""•'' '"""^ 
 n.o.t de.ir.bl„ „„,1 h.v. „„i bee,I^„e«,ly",°l.^ "'°"°" o. .t(.i„i„g ,hi, 
 
 to p,.„v,ao the ,„e„„. of :::! s';:::::;'«';r -'• • ^ '■-«-= i^"«>-.>-.t 
 
 eoar-cely nine n.ilc., and thus lulHI an „^h ,.! T ''""'«''"• »""■ • Ji"!""™ „r 
 
 •bie :r r; ;:r :;:;:,„?:; 1 1 r;ur r r "- "™ "-"^ ^■^"- ' 
 
 once more, to bring tho matter mo.nLnTi 7r ! ^'"« ''^''P^'t ; they desire. 
 
 Council, with the earnest hope That thr "^ •""'"' "' ^''^"'- ^^^^«"«-'>' "' 
 
 allowed to pass withonHhe adontiln of Iff T"' '"""" "' ^"••''«"'*'"^ ^*" ""^^e 
 or the Term's of Confe<.e..:ot' ; e^t: 'tlur"'" '". ''; '"""^''^'"'^ ^""^""-^ 
 to tho Address of the Counci an,l A^ u \ ^ """^ '^ Airnishod with a reply 
 Minute, in sufficient time "bmT tt?" ^ ^e.-oin ..eferred to. as well as to this 
 
 the approaching Se.Jion h^ of Sho.. d Tl H^''- '^"''T'''' ''' ^'"^ 1^'-'"-. «^ 
 with the just request of this Province ir "'"" ^^'^^«'-"'"«"t ^-il to comply 
 
 lay the g^ievanl compSed or "t ^ ^^^^^^^^^^ ^ -'"--^'y eompelled't^, 
 
 to Her Majesty the Queen, as one o. ^ X:! i::::::':^^'^^^:^^:'- 
 
 Certified, a true Extract. 
 
 R. F. DE BLOIS, 
 ^_ Clei k Executive Council. 
 
 [Copv.] 
 
 MEMORANDUM. 
 
 -Referring to a Minute of the Executive Council nf p • x.. 
 January last, to the Address of the Le^Itte ColdU 7/^""^^ Inland, dated 3l8t 
 mentioned, and to interviews with the^HvrCo^Zi of rln 7" ^^^''^'"^'y ^'^-eio 
 cient Steam Communication between the sTand and hi S„f "?•"'' '"'J'"'"* ««■ 
 the Terms of Confederation, the underXned d! . ^«'"land, in accoi-dance with 
 
 Pnnce Edwai. Island be piac';^L"'Zl':r^^^^^ 
 
 ment in such fom as they can submit to .h« p ?7 ^ Dommion Govern. 
 
 on the 20th March, inetanT '^" ^'■"'"-'"*' I^^^'«'«ture. which will meet 
 
 W. W. SULLIVAX 
 Ottawa, March 3i-d. 1883. ^^'^"''^'* DONALD FERGUSON. 
 
 SAMUEL PfiOWSE. 
 
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 I'I'KMXiieAMS.] 
 To the SirMary uf Slut.', Ottawa : ^'"abi,..tteiuwn, 27lli AIuiul., Ittb3. 
 
 «u.no subject. ' '"^ ^'""'" "' ^"""^•' ''' J"""»'y lu«t u,>od th, 
 
 T. IIKATII IIAVJLAxND 
 
 Liouienuiit (iovoraor. 
 
 To the Lieutenant Gorernor: Ottawa, 28th Mmth, 1883. 
 
 Subject rcfonc.! to iu your MosHpge ol twou.y..evontb instant undo. co..ido.-atiu„. 
 
 a. POWELL, 
 
 ^^•"iei-Secjetui-y oJ Stulo. 
 
 p™..o on . - o;r=,zr-rrrx:r^^^^^ 
 
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 Notwilhstonding th.l ihree Se.»ion,, of th. I),.m;n:„n P...:.^ k , , , 
 
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 to Cttiiy 
 
 i entered 
 
 and Pai»- 
 Island in 
 m of the 
 
 to meas- 
 n to this 
 nfedera- 
 
 tate io a 
 3riiment 
 id 1883, 
 
 ion heid 
 
 "inco the receipt of their Addrew aforementioned, no improvement whatever has been 
 made m th i meanH of winter (communication, and the LegiHiature of thiH Province are 
 not aware that at* a reHult of the investigation of the question during the three years 
 wh.oh have elapsed, the General Government have decided upon any definite steps 
 towards an absolute fulfilment of their obligations. 
 
 In this, the eleventh year of their connection with the Dominion of Canada 
 instead of enjoying that efficient and continuous Steam communication with the Main- 
 land, guaranteed them at the time of their entry into the Confederation, for a very 
 considerable portion of the year the people of Prince Edward Island are entirely 
 dependent upon a mode that was in use before steam power was applied to the pro- 
 pulsion of vessels. 
 
 During all this time they have patiently awaited the fulfilment, by tha General 
 Government, of the terms of Confedemtion in this particular respect, until the Legis- 
 lature are reluctantly constrained to say that, in their opinion, the Dominion Govern- 
 ment have evinced a marked indifference, not only for the welfare of Prince Edwanl 
 Island, but for the inviolability of their own obligations as well. 
 
 During the first winter nucceeding the Union, the people of this Province did not 
 expect that much could possibly be effected towanis providing "continuous com- 
 mun.cat.on, neither was anything attempted in such respect; but they anticipated, at 
 the least, that the matter would receive the early and eainest consideration of the 
 Government, who would U only too anxious to carry out the plodded faith of the 
 Dominion to the smallest and most helpless of its Provinces. Not so, however: but 
 for the three consecutive winters the fulfilmont of their guarantee was mocked by the 
 employment of an old vessel called the Albert, whose usefulness in every other sphere 
 of navigation had long previously departed. 
 
 Evenlually, in 1877, a steamer, the Northern Light, which had been built for 
 
 rJnT V m' T ^""'' "'"*■ ^"''^' ^"^ P"'-^^'^ "^y ^he Government, 
 
 and placed on the rou.e between Georgetown and Piciou, where she has continued up 
 to the present time. ^ 
 
 Whatever may be the general opinion of the work performed by the Northern 
 Lujht during the laat seven years, of this fact there is no doubt : that for an average of 
 
 ZlZ ■ "" '*;'*' "''T '^' '" '"'^ "P' '**"' ^""°S '^' '^^' «he runs her trips are 
 uncertain, irregular, and unsatisfactory, and the accommodation afforded is neith r 
 
 contmuous nor efficient. While the Northern Light has, no doubt, been useful in 
 
 uZTT,t V Pr"^'^''"'^^' °^ '"^^ -»^' --««tion of the Straits of North- 
 umberland, the Legislature submit that she hm. nroir«d ^--k' — r'- • v - 
 
 B«co«<^lly overcoming ite d,ffl«„lti«; «.d th.y ob««., with r.gr,t, 4.t Cnly 
 
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 improvcn.ont contemplated in the adaptation in «orae way of a nteame.- intended for 
 the J.ighthouBo service, so as to supplement the worit of the Northern Light 
 
 The Legislature consider it almost unnecessary to recount the peculiar dis- 
 advantages under wl.i.h this Province labors, owing to its insular position, for thev 
 lee that, Irom the constant representations which have been made, the Government 
 and 1 arhament of Canada cannot be ignorant of them, and it is for this reason that the 
 people of the Island are inclined to the belief that they are the victims of a serious 
 injustice at the hands of a body who should protect their interests. 
 
 Cut off, as they always were, for nearly five months of the year from all commu 
 nication with the Mainland, except by a most uncertain and dangerous route, a promise 
 o continuous communication with the Intercolonial Hallway and the Railways of the 
 Dominion was indeed a strong inducement to them to surrender their self-government 
 and iimte with Canada. They naturally expected that, within a reasonable time they 
 would possess uninterrupted communication, at all seasons of the year, with the rest of 
 Cana<ia and of the world-that they would enjoy equal facilities for intercourse with 
 the other Provinces as those Provinces enjoy between themselves, and would partici- 
 pate in all the benefits arising from the Intercolonial Railway and other public works 
 upon the Mainland, from which they had previously been debarred for a great portion 
 of the year. \ 
 
 The inconvenience and loss which they have suffered in consequence of the failure 
 of the Federal Government to provide them with the eflScient communication promised 
 are incalculable, while the disappointment to their expectations has not tended to en- 
 hance, in their estimation, the value of a connection with the Dominion, but on the 
 contrary, has awakened a feeling of discontent which, though a matter of regret is 
 not unnatural under the circumstances. ' 
 
 Were it only the transport of freight and merchandize that was stopped during 
 the winter season, they would have good reason to complain of being precluded from 
 the benefits of the Intercolonial and other Railways which their more fortunate 
 neighbors on the Mainland enjoy; but their complaint, as well, is that in direct viola- 
 tion of the compact upon which they entered the Confederation, no efficient and con- 
 tinuous moans of Steam Communication have been provided whereby Mails and Pas- 
 sengers can be transported to the Mainland. The derangement of business consequent 
 upon the irregularity of the Mail service, when, for ten days at times, no c mmuni- 
 cation whatever is had with the rest of Canada, exercises a most prejudicial effect 
 upon their interests. The hardships of travelling, which only the strong and robust 
 are able to endure, and the dangers attendant upon the present mode, are other disad- 
 vantages from which they suffer most acutely. 
 
 The feeling that they are being unjustly treated is not without great foundation. 
 As members of one vast country, the welfare of all is assuredly the object to be atteined, 
 
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 tended for 
 
 culiar dJH- 
 1, /or t hey 
 avornment 
 •n that the 
 r a serious 
 
 II commu. 
 a promiHe 
 ayH of the 
 (vernment 
 Lime, they 
 the rest of 
 >ur8e with 
 d partici- 
 )lic works 
 at portion 
 
 he failure 
 promised 
 led tc en- 
 it on the 
 regret, is 
 
 d during 
 ded from 
 fortunate 
 ect viola- 
 
 aiid cou- 
 uiid Pas- 
 nsequent 
 
 mrauni- 
 al effect 
 d robust 
 Br disad- 
 
 indatioD. 
 Attcined, 
 
 and where difficulties or hardships militate against the prosperity of the people, thoir 
 ret.oval is undertaken by the General Government. On what other ground tun tlio 
 vast system of Rnilways, Canals and othei- public works be accounted for than as 
 means to overcome distance and to remove difficulties of transport V So rapidly I.uh 
 Canada grown since Confederation, that the means of communication are found not to 
 keep pace with the rate at which the country is developing, and millions ef dollars are 
 being annually spent in linking together the scattered Provinces fiom the Atlantic to 
 the Pacific. But three years ago the Federal Parliament, in order to keep iaith with 
 British Columbia, a Province of little more than ten thousand of a population, con- 
 tracted for the consti-uction of over two thousand miles of railway at a cost of millions 
 of dollars; yet the fulfilment of the Terms of Union with Prince Kdward Island, a 
 Province of equal importance at least with British Columbia, by providing the mea'ns 
 of communication over a Strait less than nine miles wide, is post])oned from year to 
 year without any thought, as it would seem, that thereby a solemn and binding 
 obligation is b- ; broken, and an immense injury being done to its people. 
 
 The Legislature of Prince Edward Inland are satisfied that this state of ihin-'s 
 cannot longer continue without a bi each of that harmony which is so indispensaMe 
 between the Provinces of the Confederation. They feel that the Province is being 
 treated invidiously and unjustly, and that its prosperity is retarded, in a great degree, 
 by the failure to afford that efficient communication with the rest of the world so 
 necessary to an agricultural community. 
 
 Were the General Government asked, as a matter of grace, to grant continuous 
 communication with the Mainland, some reasonable ground might exist for refusing 
 to do so; but when the req;iest is only that they fuIHl their obligations, and carry 
 out their pledged faith, by providing efficient Steam service. Summer and Winter, 
 their neglect to do so is inexcusable. 
 
 The Legislature of Prince Edward Island are of opinion that the Government of 
 Canada are justly chargeable with a most serious violation of the Terms of Union in 
 the manner which they have pointed out, and they desire to bring again the matter 
 prominently before the notice of Your Excellency in Council, in order to the adoption 
 of immediate and effective measures for the absolute fulfilment of the Terms of Con- 
 federation, or otherwise that they may be informed that Your Excellency's Govern- 
 ment are either unable or unwilling to abide by their compact. 
 
 The Legislature submit that on every principle of justice this Province should 
 receive compensation in view of the immense loss and disadvantage which have 
 accrued by reason of the failure of the General Government to provide the efficient and 
 cnntinuous communication guaranteed by the Terms of Conledeiation, and Ihey theie- 
 fore claim, as due to the present time, the sura of $5,000,000, to which they consider 
 this Province justly entitled^ 
 
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 V^ 
 
 Th. Leg„l.l„re trart that this m«t import«it m.tt.r, which th.y now for the 
 
 «t t™., hnng „„d,r tho noUo. of th, 8.nor.l Government, may iu.Z^i «.«.« 
 
 he,r..Untaon. and that a favorable an.wer will be .ccord«i wifhont delay l3S 
 
 SerS! 7 a'"' f :"'.*>'•"»"' -f "» P-'- invoke a,, inflrfj^rol 
 
 Certified, 
 
 JOHN BALL, C.L.C. 
 
 FREDERICK W. HUGHES, A. C. H. A. 
 
 No. 8. 
 
 GOVIRNMINT HOUHI, 
 
 gj^ ._ Charlottetown, P. B. Island, 
 
 18th April, 1884. 
 1 have the honor to transmit herewith, to be laid before His Excellency the 
 
 As^mbly to His Excellency the Governor 'General representing the failure of the 
 
 r^r Tk a''™*"'"' "^ """"y ^"' '^"^ P'"''°f *»»« ^•••»« of ConfederaMen wheh 
 requires the Government of Canada to « establish and maintain efficient steam sm^icefot 
 ^•jnveyance of mails and passengers between the Island and the SCdTf the 
 
 ^rth?TT'7°^Tr''*'"^P''^'^°«*^* I^'*"'^- continuous comrunicut on 
 with the Inte^olomal Railway, and the Railway system of the Dominion "and 
 praying that His Excellency in Council will take such action as Vh7 1'se the 
 grievance complained of to be remedied, and the Terms of Union to b^ fuMuIi a! 
 
 I have the honor to be. 
 Sir, 
 Your obedient servant. 
 
 The Honorable 
 
 The Secretary of State, Ottawa. 
 
 T. HEATH HAVILAND, 
 
 Lieutenant Governor. 
 
 •770 
 on 
 2912. 
 
 Sm:— 
 
 April, i«H4. 
 
 I have the honor to acknowledge the rMeipt of 
 
 Ottawa, 24th 
 your Despatoh No. 8, of the 18th 
 
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 ow, for the 
 tely engage 
 Ty Otherwise 
 Brference of 
 )d of at the 
 
 1. C. H. A. 
 
 ad, 
 
 ^pril, 1884. 
 
 lleDcy the 
 Uou>e ot 
 ire of the 
 tien which 
 service for 
 uid of the 
 QUDicution 
 ion;" and 
 cauHe the 
 ullilled, ao 
 nonfulfil. 
 
 rovernor. 
 
 instant, tranHraitting, in order that the Puid may be laid before His Excellency llio 
 Governor General, a Joint AddioHH from the Logiwlativo Council and House of 
 Assembly of Pnnco Edward \ land, on tl,o subject of an efficient steam sorvice for 
 the conveyance of mailr, and |.a«sengeis l.oiweon that Province and the Mainland of 
 the Dominion, winter and summor. anl (.• state that this matter will receive due 
 consideration. 
 
 I have the honor to be, 
 Sir, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 G. POWELL, 
 
 „. -_ Under Secretary of State. 
 
 His Honor 
 
 The Lieutenant Governor of 
 
 Prince Bdwai-d Island, Charlottelown. 
 
 1884. 
 the 18tb 
 
 Extract from Minutes of Executive Council of Prince 
 Ed^vard Island. 
 
 COUNCIL CHAMBER, 
 
 February 20th, 1885. 
 At a meeting of the Executive Council in Committee. 
 
 The following Minute was adopted and ordered to be handed to His Honor the Lieutenant 
 Governor for transmission to the Dominion Government: 
 
 Adverting to the Joint AddienH of the Legislative Council and Houhc of Assembly, 
 in the Session of 1884, to His Excellency the Governor General in Council (a copy of 
 which is herewtth transmitted) upon the subject of the nonfulfilraont of the Terms of 
 Confederation, in respect to Communication with the Mainland, the Executive Council 
 in Committee desire to bring to ti.e notice of His Excellency in Council in fact that, 
 beyond a formal acknowledgment of the receipt of the said Address, no reply thereto 
 has been received. 
 
 Without entering mto a recapitulation of the statements set forth in the said Address, 
 the Council in Committee wish to draw His Rxcellency's attention to the several steps 
 which have been taken by thif» Province towards securing the fulfilment ot the Com- 
 pact of Confederation in the particular alluded to, and which have proved so far 
 entirely unsuccessful. And here they desire to express their surprise and legret at 
 the extraordinary apathy with which the interests of Prince Edward Island have been 
 treated in this regai-d. 
 
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 thi« P ! ^ "»P';c.My .n ihogood faith of the General Government, the people of 
 th.8 Prov.ncewa.ted patiently, for «even year., tho falfiLu.nt of the trmH of Con- 
 fede..at.on unt.l .n 1881, the Legislative Council and House of AHnembiy unit^ In an 
 
 meaau.es to remedy the gnevanccB complained of, and req ucsting compensation for 
 loss sustained by reason of the delay which had occurred. 
 
 The receipt of this Address was formally acknowledged on 16th April, 1881 but 
 no other reply was received. On 28th February, 1882, the Lieutenant G^ve. nor o 
 th.s P..„v,nce co.«municated with the Secretary of State, directing attention to the 
 Address, and to the fact that it had not been answe.-ed, when subsequently a'eply was 
 
 188-i^driT/T 'l^^^^S/r??' "^^ ^"""'" in Committee, on the 31st Janua.y, 
 1883 d,ew the a tent.on of the Gene.al Government to the fact that, although nea.i; 
 two 3ea,.8 had elapsed since the .eceipt of the Add.ess of 1881, no attem; t had been 
 
 of fn thJ" -hTu ' ""ir "' ^«— -«"P"- -"^ that the g.ievances complained 
 of .n the said Address still remained. Upon 3.xi Ma.ch following, the Piwincial 
 
 be subm.ited to the Legislature then about to meet. No answer being received, on 
 27th March the Lieutenant Governor teleg.-aphed to the Sec. etary of State, and ^as 
 informed in reply that the subject was under con.ide.-ation. 
 
 Wearied with long waiting and ineffectual applications, the Legislative Council 
 and House of Assembly, at thoir last Session, again approached H^ Excellency n 
 Counc 1, renewing the relation of their grievances, but, as already mentioned beyonS 
 a simple acknowledgment, their appeal has been unsuccessful. ^ 
 
 ^U-I^J *h' ''^''" f .^"°'' ^'^^'^'"^ '^^*°^ '"^ ^ ""'fi'-^^"^ of the Compact bv " 
 ,.nol > vT't:'" '''""" ''' *'^ Confederation, should be so persLen.Iy 
 Ignored it is difficult to conceive. By a contract entered into with extraordinary 
 solemnity he General Gove.-nment agreed for certain considerations, to "esTabU h 
 and maintain efficient steam service for the conveyance of mails and passent s 
 between^ the sland and the Mainland of the Dominion, winter and summr tl, s 
 placing the Island in continuous communication with the Intercolonial Railway and 
 the railway systena of the Dominion," yet during no year of nearly twelve which have 
 dapsed since the Union, has the communication provided been such as was gua n- 
 teed For eight or nine weeks each winte.-, the people of this Province are depend 
 en, for heir postal communica.... upon a system in use among them long years 
 before steam power was ever applied for pui-poses of lnr,nn,otJn.. jj^.^,:.Al 
 this State of affairs is ,t is aggravated by the neglect, during this period, to provide 
 any means whatever for the transport of passengers, and it is only as a mftt^r of 
 
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 10 people of 
 ms of Con- 
 united In an 
 ^advantages 
 immediate 
 snsation for 
 
 I, 1881, but 
 rovernor of 
 :ion to the 
 i reply was 
 leration to 
 
 ; January, 
 Jgh nearly 
 had been 
 ompluinod 
 Provincial 
 1 aa could 
 ceived, on 
 3, and wao 
 
 e Council 
 )llency in 
 d, beyond 
 
 mpact by 
 rsistently 
 »ordinary 
 
 establish 
 asaengers 
 ler, thus 
 I way and 
 lich have 
 I guaran- 
 
 depend- 
 ig years 
 letory un 
 
 provide 
 latter of 
 
 favor on the part of the Mail Couriers that persons are enabled to make the passage, 
 and then only in open boats, which are wholly unprovided with the means of susten- 
 ance, warmth or shelter, and at the imminent peril of their lives. To shew that this 
 language is not extravagant, it is only necessary to refer to the experience of the crew 
 and passengers, twenty-two in number, who, in January last, were detained on the ice 
 between Capes Traverse and Tormentine for two days and one night, during which 
 they suffered most severely, and from which many of them will never entirely 
 recover. 
 
 The Address of last Session imposed upon the Provincial Government the duty, 
 in the event of a favorable answer not being accorded thereto without delay, of 
 invoking the interference of Her Majesty the Queen to obtain that justice which the 
 Island has been so long denied. While it is a subject of deep regret that the Domin- 
 ion Government have not seen tit to take any action in the matter therein pressed 
 upon their notice, the Council in Committee feel that no alternative is left to them 
 than to lay at the foot of the Throne a statement of the grievances so long endured 
 and ask of Her Majesty, as one of the contracting parties to the Articles of Confeder- 
 ation that she will be graciously pleased to secure to Prince Edward Island that 
 redress which has so repeatedly been sought, but which has not yet been obtained. 
 
 Certified, a true Extract, 
 
 E. F. DE BLOIS, 
 
 Clerk Executive Council. 
 
 Sir:— 
 
 Government House, 
 
 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 
 
 February, 28th, 1885. 
 
 I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of His Excellency the 
 Governor General in Council, an approved minute of my Council, passed on the 30th 
 inst., upon the subject of the non-fulfilment of the Terms of Confederation in respect to 
 Communicaiion with the Mainland, together with the copy therein referred to of the 
 Address of the Legislature of the Island, as passed in the Session of 1884, on the same 
 subject. 
 
 I have the honor to be, 
 Sir, 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 (Signed) A. A. MACDONALD, 
 
 rry, TT L, Lieutenant Governor. 
 
 The Honorable 
 
 The Secretary of State, Ottawa. 
 
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 |:ii^ 
 
 1!^ 
 
 Ottawa, 6th March, 1886. 
 
 788 
 
 on 
 
 3993 
 
 I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your denpatch of the 28th ultimo 
 tranBrnittrng for subraiHHion to His Excellency the Governor General an approved 
 Minute of the Executive Council of Prince Edward kland, in respect to Winter Com 
 mumcation w.th the Mainlano, .ether with a copy to which the same refers of the 
 Address of the Legislature of tue Island, as passed in the season of 1884, upon the 
 subject, and to slate that the same will receive due consideration. 
 
 I have the honor to be, 
 Sir, 
 Your obedient servant, 
 (S'g°®<*) G. POWELL, 
 
 His Honor ^°*^®*" Secretary of State. 
 
 The Lieutenant Governor of 
 
 Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown. 
 
 ill! 
 
 To Ms Honor the Honorable AI^DREW ARCHIBALD MACLONALD Lieuten 
 
 ant Governor of the Province of Prince Edward Island, <&c., dtc, &c. ' 
 May it plbase Your Honor,— 
 
 A ^'T'. ^""°^ ^^^ P"®'*"* ^^«''°° *** ^^« ^«°eral Assembly, the House of 
 Assembly did joje with the Legislative Council in a memorial t« Her Majesty the 
 Queen, praying Her Majesty's most gracious intervention in order to obtain from the 
 Government of Canada a fulfilment of the terms upon which this Island entered the 
 Confederation, in respect to Communication with the Mainland, and also the payment 
 
 tlTilurofThl^B " ""r '" *'' '"^ ^"^^^""^ '^ ''' P-P'« - consequence of 
 ah/ r of J;he Dominion Government to carry out the said terms; and a Joint 
 Address of both Houses has beeu adopted requesting His Honor the Liiutenant gTv 
 ei^or tofoi^ard the said memorial to His Excellency the Governor General, fox tmni 
 mission to Her Majesty the Queen. ' 
 
 And Wh^rea^, Since the adoption of the said memorial and Address an insurrec- 
 tion has unfortunately been incited in the Northwest Territories, whereby' not onTy tht 
 peace and wellfare of the Dominion have been disturbed, but the lives and pZrty 
 of its citizens are endangered, while some of Her Majesty's subjects have meTth^ 
 death in bravely endeavoring to uphold the Authority of the British Crown. 
 
 And Whereas, This Hoiise recognizes the pai-amount obligation of the, Genera 
 
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 «ov.ernment to HuppreRs lawlessnoHH and rebellion, an.i it i. th. impcMativo .l„iy of 
 evory Rntmh nuhject to assist the ro,..,it.,(e,l a-.thoritieH i,. ,lu> .VKtonuion o. ,,„iet,,os. 
 and ^rood order, and in the maintennnco ot il.o l^itvn's suproma.-y. 
 
 Thoroforo this House, unwilling- to cml.arrass (ho (loneral (Government u-hil.. 
 occupied with matters .,f snch weighty mo.neni to ihe K.npiro and loolcin-' to a .....dv 
 term.nat.on of the insurrection, desire to postpone tor the present the carrvi..^ .'ut .V 
 he .•onst.lut.onal .neans by which it seeks to redress a «,ievan.-e o, the neopirm this 
 1 rov.nce and request your Honor not to (orvvanl (he said me.nori:.! unLil 'u,!, ,„n.'. 
 during the approaching Legislative recess, as in the opinio., „r y,.,,, advisers shall h. 
 deemed opportune. 
 
 Certitied, 
 
 FUKDHRICK W. 11 U; irKS, A. ( '. (I. A. 
 
 To His Honor the. Hmomhle AND lihiV ARrin HA U> .U.wnoXA /J> L„nla,„nt 
 
 Governor of the Province of Prinre E,lw,rnl hlan.l, ,lr., .Cv., .i-. 
 May it please Yoifr Honor,— 
 
 Wher^^s, During the present Session of the tfeneral Asse.nl.ly, this Hon.. .ii.i 
 -MM w.th the House of Asse.nhly in a memorial to Ifcr Maj.My ,1. t^uecn , r y 
 
 or M,,estyV. nK>st gracious intervention in order to ohtain' trom the (;^.^: nn ^ "' 
 Canada a .. hlment of the the terms upon which this Island entered the Tonf !• ,i, 
 n roapoct to Con.munication with the Mai.dand, an.i also the payn,en o ' 
 
 pensattonto th.s Province for the loss sustained hy its people in .• >n c,,uon..c o ," 
 mluro oMhe Dom.n.on Government to carry out the saiJ teJms; and a . oint Ad r 
 
 t.» H.s l^xcellency the (xovornor (xeneral, for transmission to Her .M.-.jesty the (ine.... 
 
 AM Whereas, Since the a.loption of the said memorial an.i Address, an insurrec- 
 tion has unfortunately been incited in tho xVorthvest Provinces, whereby no n it e 
 peace and wellf:..re of the Dominion have been disturbed, but the lives and p op" v • 
 tH c.fzens are endangered, while some of Her Mrjesty's subjects have met ai i 
 .n bravely ondeavo.ing to uphold the authority of the British Crown. 
 
 And Whereas, This flouse recognizes the paramount obligation of the (lencr-d 
 
 e o.y Bru.sh subH^ct to assist the constituted authorities in the restoration of ouiet 
 noHss and good order, and in the maintenance of the Queen's supremacy. ' 
 
 occu!!i^d'"S;maH ^T^ r""r '" '^"'^''''■'^'* '''' ^'^"^'•'^^ GovernmetU while 
 mtnaton of the insurrection, desire to postpone for tho present tho carrying out of 
 u- constitutional moans by which it seeks to redress a grievance of tho people of h 
 
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 »ii 
 
 N'lH 
 
 d3 op JLT ■°'' '°^'""'"™ '■''™""' "- '" ""'"""" '" '•^- "^''^ »'■■".' ^ 
 
 T«.n.i![''"" "■,!' "r"° ™*''°'' "■■■" "" '"»"'■'■«"»» has boen inci.od in Ihc Northwest 
 
 tobod but that 11,6 I,™ and prnporly of i,» citizen, havo boen ondangorod, yet a» our 
 
 Z,l Tr'T' °°° '" "'"• °P'"'""' """■" *"" ' "" "nn«ce«.ay delay i,^ 
 
 forw«d „g the «„d mem„,-ial to lie,. Mo»t (naeiou, M„jesty the (iuoen, p,ayi„g H " 
 
 frier oTT ""'™""°" '" "'•'°'- '" "'"'"' '■•■'■™ '"° «°-"-'' Of C,La 
 M,^rnllT . , ' of <^onWe,.a.lon in ,e«p.et to C„n,n,u„ioatio„ „i.h thj 
 
 M.,al«,d and al.o compensation to the P,.o,i„„e fb,- the lo« .attained by it, people i" 
 conaequeuee of the failure of the Dominion Government to car,.y out -aid term? 
 
 Cei'tifiod, 
 
 JOHN BALL, C. L. C. 
 
 To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty : ' 
 
 Most Gracious Soveretqn.-Wo, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects 
 the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of Prince Edwai-d Island, in General 
 Assembly convened, humbly approach your Majesty and represent that: 
 
 1. Prince Edward Island entered the Confederation of the Dominion of Canada 
 upon Ist July, 1873, on certain terms and conditions set forth in the order of Your 
 Majesty in Council, dated 26th June, 18*73, and of which terms the following is one- 
 The Dominion Government shall assume and defray all the charges for the following 
 service, viz: Efficient Steam Service for the conveyance of Mails and Passengers to 
 be established and maintained between the Island and the Mainland of the Dominion 
 winter and summer, thus placing the Island in continuous communication with the 
 Intercolonial Railway and the Railway system of the Dominion. 
 
 2. During no winter season since the time of the said Union has the service pro- 
 vided by the Dominion Government been efficient, or the communication with the 
 Mainland continuous. 
 
 3. The Dominion Government having shown no sufficient disposition to fulfil their 
 obligation towards the Island in this matter, wo are reluctantly compelled to approach 
 Your Majesty, as one of the parties to the articles of Confederation, and p.-ay your 
 Majesty's intervention to obtain for us that justice to which, as a Province of Canada 
 we are entitled by the Terms of Union. 
 
 4. Prince Edward Island is separated from the Mainland Provinces of Canada bv 
 
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 il euch time 
 ivn shall be 
 
 3 Xoithwost 
 U) been dis- 
 I, yet an om- 
 ry delay in 
 raying Her 
 tot' Canada, 
 1 with the 
 In people in 
 oi'mn, 
 
 C. L. C. 
 
 al subjecfR, 
 in General 
 
 of Canada 
 r of Your 
 ng is one: 
 
 following 
 engers, to 
 Dominion, 
 
 with the 
 
 irvice pro- 
 with the 
 
 fulfil their 
 approach 
 ii-ay your 
 ' Canada, 
 
 anada bv 
 
 the Strait of Northumberland, und during the winter season, wnich generally begins 
 about .ho first of Docombor and lasts until the end of April, the harbors and rivers are 
 frozen, while the pa«80ge of the Strait in impeded, though at no time wholly prevented 
 by floating ice. Previous to the Union the only connection with the Mainland during 
 winter was by means of ordinary boats, dragged across the drifting ice, and propelled 
 by oars through the sti etches of open water between Cape Traverse on the Island, and 
 Cape Tormentine in New lirunswick — a distance of nine miles. 
 
 5. During the first winter after Confederation (1873-4) no attempt was made by 
 the Dominion Government to provide such steam service. During the two subsequent 
 years (1874-5, 1875 G) an old wooded steamboat, which had for years been engaged in 
 ordinary navigation, but without a single qualification to fit her for the winter 
 navif,'utiou of the Strait, was placed upon the loute between Georgetown, one of the 
 Island ports, and Piclou, in the Province of Nova Scotia; and, us was to be expected, 
 she utterly failed in the service required of her. At the oomiiieecement of the winter 
 1876-7, a new steamer called the A'orther7i Lirjht was placed upon this route. This 
 steamer was not constructed for the service, but was designed for another purpose, 
 and therefore her work can be regarded only in the light of an experiment. 
 
 6. The sejviee peifoi mcd by the Northern Light h«s been most unsatisfactory, her 
 trips being irregular, and the aiicommodation she afforded has been neither con- 
 tinuous nor efHcient. Accoiding to the official returns for the last four years, there 
 has been an average in each winter of sixty-four days, during which she has been 
 entirely laid up. Nor does this furnish any idea of the irregularity of her trips before 
 she entirely ceased running in each of these years, but only of the continued period 
 when she was laid up and inoperative. At times she has been ice-bound for periods 
 ranging from ten to twenty-four days, to the imminent danger of passengers and 
 mails. Upon one occasion, four years ago, some of the passengers— among them 
 women and children— were forced after remaining on board several days, to leave her 
 and walk a distance of many miles to the shoie, when night overtaking them, they 
 received injuries from cold and exposure, which resulted ultimately in the death of 
 one of the party. 
 
 7. During the time when the Northern Light is laid up. the people of the Island 
 are obliged to resort to the old method of crossing between the Capes (Traverse and 
 Tormentine) already described, a route attended with much hardship and great 
 danger. In the month of January last a party of twenty-two persons were detained 
 on the ice for two days and one night, in an attempt to make the passage, when 
 they suffered most severely from cold and exposure— the majority of them being badly 
 frozen— and several have since suffered amputation of their limbs as a result of the 
 injuries then received. 
 
 8. One the principal inducements held out to the people of this Island to 
 
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 i-,-'i- .wCliruuv ,::;:'';::,:;: r, rr."""i '"?,. ^ ' 
 
 an,! ..Hum- piibli,, woHcs mm.... tl. . \i • t . "^^"""/^ «""» t'U! Ii.toivolonii.l JJnilway 
 
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 livo ,„.>inl„ „| tl,„ woKc In M """'"•."» "'"i li"J "'"aj-H boo,, iur noi..^ 
 
 t „„eo,., L" ;„ ;r : , r';;:::;"""; """;■ "'° *'"'"'""^' "»™"^ '-^ - 
 
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 l.c„„ »l,„w„ i„ ,-,.„„,| ,„ ,1 ^""."'^.1. •".' at llio ox(ra„,.l„,a,.j. apalhy wLith ha„ 
 
 1'. .... tl.. Umoi^JtL^ Z '"' '"""' '.'°"' '"'"" '" '■"'«' •l>"To,ra,of Union, 
 ».n.- UunlWcil d ' >:°;". "'» i'.'min.o.. «..ve™menl havo, a. no ii„,e 
 
 .1.0 Ma:„ian.,. u;;r^na:;;:::z,:::: .^ r„i:-.r'ix:";T« r re "t 
 
 .» t..„ „„.. a..ea violauoa „<■ the T„™, o. Union'wMch Je'r::;;::":;:^^ 
 
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 llO ToiIUM ol 
 
 >ocl<j(i thut a 
 million ui ull 
 vcd that ll.oy 
 
 PlOVillCOH U.S 
 
 llioy would 
 riiiil JJuilwjiy 
 .'iouwlj boeii 
 n lor iioi""'y 
 
 ifiilioii Willi 
 iM, iiidoecl, u 
 I Cuiiudu, 
 
 iciice of the 
 iiiiuiiiculion 
 Xj»octutioiiM 
 )ii with the 
 h, (lioiii^h u 
 t only ihu 
 hoy would 
 iturcolonijil 
 orijoy; but 
 ipon which 
 at<ed to bo 
 continuous 
 inland. 
 
 mplaint at 
 which haH 
 fiunication 
 I'Ht placed 
 Jivice wan 
 }f Union, 
 !• trips, a 
 wt Offico 
 Toj-men- 
 - no time 
 Huen^ers, 
 and from 
 f Canada 
 to repre- 
 
 Hont to Your MajoMly. Aloioovoi- iho Dominion tiovoi nmonl huvo csiablirthoil no com- 
 muiHcalion bolweon llio Inloicolonial Kaili.y and Cape Tomienlinc, m) thai tiavollei-H 
 aio compelled in puH^in^ between ihe.^e points, to drive in open >lei^di« a di>laiKe ot 
 forty miles, in the coldest and nuwl r,iorniy . ortion of Uie year. Helwei-n Capo 
 Truvcrso und iho lino .)f tho Prince Kdward Island liailway, a distance of about iwolvo 
 niiloH, railway connection lias been opened, and that but partially ..nly tbi,. winter, 
 altliough provided lor by I'arliament throe yeair. ago, 
 
 11. Tho derangement of business consiMpient upon the irregularity of the mail 
 horvico, when lor many days at tim«n no communication is had with the rer,t oi Canada, 
 oxorcisort a most prejudicial ettoct upon tho interests ol tho Island. Tho haidships of 
 travelling, which only the strong and robust aie able to endure, and the dangers atten- 
 dant upon the i.iesent mode which have been most jminlully exenipliticd ihi^ winter, 
 uro other disadvanlagos from which tho people of this I'rovii.ce suller mo»t acutely. 
 
 12. Tho fooling that they are being unjustly treated is not without strong lounda- 
 tion. InordertofulHI tho Teiins of Union with British Columbia, a province of less than 
 15,000 of a population, exclusive of Indians and Chinese, Canada has contracted for the 
 constru(!tion of nearly three thousand miles of railway at a cost ut' more than eighty 
 millions of dollars. This gigantic undertaking is being pushed forward at a rate un- 
 parallolod in tho world's history, and a vast exj)endituro is being nmde, and still more 
 is contomplatod, in aciiuiring und subsidizing other railroads and in lorging ll.o links 
 to bind tho scattered Piovinces from tho Atlantic to tho Pacific ; yet the fulfilment ..f 
 tho Terms of Union with this Island, by providing tho moans ot communication over 
 a Strait, only nine miles wide, is postponed from year to year, without any thought, 
 it would seem, that thereby a sacred obligation is being violated, and an immense 
 injury being done to a lai-ge body of people, 
 
 13, This giievanco of which wo here com))lain has been repeatedly brought to 
 the notice of the General Government, while, session aiter session, the representatives 
 of the Island in the Dominion Parliament have called attention to the non-fuiHIment 
 by Canada of her pledged faith with this Island. In 1881 we addressed the Governor 
 General in Council upon tho subject, and prayed for tho aUoptioti of meanures to 
 remedy the state of affairs complained of as well aw compensation for tho loss sustained 
 on account of the non-fulfilment of the Terms of Union. Thi-* address was duly 
 acknowledged, but no practical results followed, and upon the notice of tho Dominion 
 Government being again directed thereto, assurances were returned in both of the years 
 1882 and 1883, that the question was under their consideration. Again last year we 
 addressed His ExcHlency in Council with a like petition, and claiming five millions of 
 dollars for the loss sustained to that time on account of the non-fulfilment of tho said 
 Terms, and we also informed the Dominion Government that we then approached 
 
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 tho .unuu. M.nH w i had boo .^W ''7^:"';","" ''" l^--"'- ^-vurnmont to 
 
 .no.io... ana .L....:!' ui^irurti L '^^s ^'^ ^rr'"' "'' ^^" 
 
 "ppoal to Vour Maj.sty. a...l that no ahc.nativo w /loi IZ "' '"^ 
 dolorm.nution into ettoct. Tu ihin Mi,..!.., .. P' ^'' ^"'"''^ ^^^"^ 
 
 will bo t.an.,„ittod ,o Your Majest, Wowi.h ' ^ "•••«' pondonco reiened to 
 
 14. In 11,1,4 tbotwolrib year or their connoction with i).« h • • • 
 e..Joy.r.g tha, oftic-ient and ont.nuous H.oa.n cnn. .U w h H m"''. "?"' ^' 
 
 v^UH guuranteod them, tho noonlo ol P,in..n ' " , '^'"' ^''^ Mainland which 
 
 P-tion of tho year,dopend :Vlpo the ::,owh;:Wh"' l'\ " '''"' '^'"''''''''''^ 
 or «ixty yea... ago, b.fo.e «,ean. po. .waster .Hal'"" '"'"^"^ "^'^'^^ 
 Dun..g those twelve years, they h- ve xmxuTtlJ . ^ ''"''"'''''" «^ locomotion. 
 
 Government of the Inn U. i on i ll L^Z'. ^''^*:"^""-^ ''^ ^he General 
 
 "trained to nay that the Domh.i ' P"'t^;^»la«-, until we are reluctantly con- 
 
 not only for the woir^r; ,^Z Ind ,;:t:\ "'" "^ -^•««-- 
 
 a« well. '"'""*^' ''"' ^^' ^''^ -sanctity of their own obligation 
 
 that htn^:^^::;:!.:! :oi.:it;i::;:t:::r rr ---- -^^-^ « ^-h or 
 
 and feeling that the Island is beinrtl-.f T ? P'-ov.nce« of the Confederation, 
 
 retarded, we appeal to Y^r k Z a 1 T'^'^^ ""' '^^ P''««P--'^^ -"oubI; 
 ^i^es into Vour^nostgracious'^crr o^^^^^'^'^.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [^ -^'' ^f « the pre' 
 
 Government of Canada to Your Maiestv's h .. 7 "^ "'' ''^ ^^"^^ ^J^ the 
 
 i.nmediate establishment and rnaii ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ the 
 
 yeyance of mails and passenuers between t'.i. 1 ! T 7'"'"^ ^"^' '^^ ^^O" 
 
 Dominion, both winter i.l summer, Iru^'',,'''',^:' ^f f'* ^-"'-^ of the 
 mun.eation with the Intoicolonial liailway and thi/.ui. '" continuous com- 
 
 and further, that Your M-.iestv wi I b« ?i . "^ "^'^'''" "*' ^'^« l>"minion : 
 
 Canada compensate this lJio ^7 L ^ "::;1^ ^'^^ '^o Government o^ 
 
 reason of the non-fulHlment of the Temrof C f < '■'^" "^ '" '''^ inhabitants, by 
 pU'ined of herein. "' ""^ Confederation, in the particular com- 
 
 Ceriified, 
 
 JOHI^ BALL, C. L. C 
 
 FEEDEEICK W. HUGHES, A. C. H. A, 
 
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 1 without doluy, 
 iiowloilgrnotit ot 
 iltruury liwt, the 
 CTOvornmont to 
 tllorneni of the 
 C(l luhi ^ our to 
 to curry ilmt 
 y UF) wor woH 
 nco lotorrod to 
 
 lion, instoad of 
 luiiilaiid which 
 y eonsid^jrublo 
 Ljuted upwai-di* 
 of ioconiotion. 
 >y the Gonoi'ul 
 iuctantly con- 
 d indittoronce 
 wu obligation 
 
 it a breach of 
 'oDfederation, 
 ity serioualy 
 take the pro- 
 done by the 
 ince, by the 
 for the con- 
 liiiid of the 
 inuous cora- 
 3 Dominion; 
 Feinment of 
 labitantM, by 
 ticuiaz* com- 
 
 A. C. H. A. 
 
 MESSAGE. 
 
 A. A. MACDONALD, Licntt^nani Governor, 
 
 The LitMitonant Govornor irntisinits to the Houho of AnHtMnbly the acoornpnnyin^ 
 Copies of I)t>putcho-< and othoi- Dociimotits rohitinj^ to liio Joint A idrc-ts if tht« 
 LegisluMvo Council anil Hour^u of Assembly to Hei Majesty tbo (iuoon, -'M ho -abject 
 of the TennH upon which this Island enloiel the Contodoiation. 
 
 Goveinmont llou^o, April, 2Sih, 18H(». 
 
 Extract from Minutes of Ex* cutive Council of nee 
 Edward Island. 
 
 COUNCIL CHAMBER, 
 
 August 4th '885. 
 
 The Executive Council in Committee have ha 1 under consideration the m ajate 
 AddreHscH of the Lcgiwlative Council und IF miso o As-embly of thi-< Province His 
 Honor the Lieutenant Governor, piissod dming ti eii- last Sension, requestinj. tiat, 
 owing to their unwillingness to embuna'S the d )vernment of Canada during the 
 existence of the insurrection in the NoithwcrttTt ritories, their Joint Memorial to 
 Iter MajoHty the Queen, prayini^' Her Mnjesty's most trracious intervention, in ordei lo 
 obtain f-om the Government ot ('tiTunla a Inltilment if tlieTcinis ujion which this I 
 land entered the ConfedoralitMi in res|iecl to comnii lication with the Mainland, and 
 also the pa3'ment of compensation to ihih Province fo- the Iohh fustaineti by its poonle 
 in consequence of the failure of the Dominion Goverr ment to carry out the aforesaid 
 Terms, should not be forwunled until such lime (iuiii r the th«n approaching lectss, 
 as in the oj)inion of His Honor's ailvisers hbould be (i( med opportune. 
 
 The Council in Committee advi-o that, as the in>urrcction has been ctt'octually 
 suppressed and order restored in the Northwest Ten iloies, the said Joint Addicss to 
 Her Majesty tbo Queen, together with the enclosures therein lefeiied to. the said 
 sepnrate Addresses to His Honor and a cop} of this Min He be immediately forwarded 
 to His Excellency the (Jovernor Geneuil f >i- transmission to Her Majesty the (Juoen. 
 
 Approved by His Honor the Lieulcnanl Governor. 
 
 Cortitied, a ti'ue Extnwt, 
 
 R. F. OF, BLOTS, 
 
 Clerk Executive Council. 
 
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 [Copt.] 
 
 Government House, 
 
 OharJottotown, P.-inoo Kdwai-d iHland 
 Sir: — - , ' 
 
 Au^.ii.st 4th, 1885. 
 
 I-og„l„.|v„ c„„„oil a„<l H„„.„,„ aIIL ,H?"p"' ." •'""" ''""•■'>- '■'■<"« the 
 most g,,„.,o„»i„u„ve„,ion,i„ „,,,„, ,„„b,^" """ '^'•""■'"•. P^Ji-K Ho,- Maj„„V, 
 
 Oomm„„„,„.i„„ „,,h ,h„ j,„i„l,u„| audi „„, ' "■» f'-'«'l«™'ion in ™pec. .„ 
 
 r -"""'■"«" "J- it- P-Pio in <..n,e, „;„ ,7 17'"""".''°;' "' """ '''•"""«« ''«• "- 
 10 cany „„t tl,e af6,e«aid l„,m. r „I,"„^ '■" "' "'" ^'ominion fiovornment 
 
 Despatch p(„. ,8 ,. , 
 Wand, .„ .S«„.e„„,. „,- ,s„,„^ ,'^ „'f ■, ':;:;,^'';;'"'"-' «»'-"o. of P,,nco Ed„„, 
 
 ".oa,„,„, ,„„, „„ „„ „, ,,„ " ^,^ „^, "T!";'- '•""e.-al, ,„„y,„. u,»t i^^dt „ 
 o-.^o.p...V..S_,.,,,..,,,„J>^ 
 
 ■Secretary of 8utc,o;tuwa,H.formiirimn^ff; '''"" '''" ^'«»^«nant Governor to the 
 -d.-, and ti.at thi. Go^.nnn^at ^^^ ^ r^ ^'^'^'^yj'"^ ^^^ — cd to tL ubo 
 
 fc'Ute, da.cd 8.h March, 1882. ^" "' ""'^ ^^'^l^^'tch by the Socreury of 
 
 UWi * I'. ,,. 
 
 188 
 Stat 
 
 «i,'t''ui'.'iz *■;;;;* f ',"" "'-^°""''™ «-<■» "n.,i. Ma„d ....„,, ,, , , 
 
 -««. ot.aw., aj: ,„■;'::::, itr;™,!' ""■""'^«' ^>-w™ •<' L i: ,t;:r^. 
 ---'« " ™^^- ..-^ <.r ::^ - r ^1!:: --^ :;£ff; 
 
 ;^ ''■" --;;'rsr r :-^^^^ ;-. -™ .^^ ..,..„ «„.„ 
 
 L.o„.„a„. «,.„,.„„.. ,,., „„ „„„];.:'i':'i,.":.,.rz:,;'::; " ""'- ""^■'■"'■'« '"' 
 
 I>oapatch No 8 of 18 tJ A 
 a Joint Address oi the Lo.isluf ^!^ c 1'^^'*; ^'Tri'^" l^'-«"<0""nt Governor, fransn^ittin. 
 
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 Hiand, 
 
 St 4th, 1885. 
 
 ■ General of 
 f* t'vom tho 
 ^^• MaJGHly's 
 "d.i a fulfil, 
 respect to 
 nco for the 
 overnment 
 >'> relating 
 
 30 Edward 
 
 branches 
 
 mmediafe 
 
 >s of Con- 
 
 'Icdgment 
 
 B81. 
 
 >!• to the 
 
 he above 
 
 delay aH 
 
 reiary of 
 
 faniiai-y, 
 etary of 
 [Council, 
 •rein le- 
 
 Govcvrnment to carry out part of the Terras of Confederation, and praying that Mis 
 hxcelioncy the Governor General in Council will take such action as shall cause this 
 grievance to be remedie^l, an<l al«o that compensation be p.-.id to this Island fi.r n..r.- 
 fulfilment of .aid termn, with the Joint Address referred to, and the Despatch No 
 1770, of 24th April, 1884, from the Under Secretary of State, Ottawa, acknowledging 
 receipt thereof, and stating that the matter will receive due consideration. 
 
 Despatch No. 27, of 28th February, 1885, from tho Lieutenant Governor to the 
 Secretary of State, Ottawa, transmitting for the consideration of His Kxcolloncy the 
 Goveinor General in Council an approved Minute of Council on the non-fulfilment of 
 the Terms of Confederation, with Minute therein mentioned, and Despati^h No 1788 
 dated Ottawa fith March, 1885, acknowledging receipt of the above. 
 
 Address from the Legislative Council, and another from the House of Assembly 
 of this Province at the last Session to tne Lieutenant Governor with respect to the 
 transmission of the Joint Address, then passed by both branches of the Legislature to 
 Her Majesty the Queen. 
 
 A ^f ?oo/'T ^^* '^'""^^" "^ *''^ Executive Council of this Island, dated the 4th 
 August, 1885, advising for the reason therein stated, that the Joint Address of both 
 branches of the Legislature to Her Majesty the (^ueen. together with the enclosures 
 therein referred to. and the separate Addresses to the Lieutenant (Governor from tho 
 Provincial Legislative Council and House of Assembly, and the Minute of Council in 
 connection therewith, be immediately forwarded to His Excellency the Governor 
 General for transmission to Her Majesty the Queen. 
 
 I have the honor to be. 
 Sir, 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 (^'Sned). A. A. MACDONALD, 
 
 The Honorable Lieutenant Governor. 
 
 The Secretary of State, Ottawa. 
 
 3veinor 
 isliUure, 
 "g the 
 
 Hitting 
 fice, to 
 niiiioQ 
 
 3028 
 
 on 
 
 3993 
 
 Sra :- 
 
 Ottawa, August 10th, 1885. 
 
 i have the ho.ior to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of tho 4th instant 
 transmitting a Joint Address to Her Majesty the Queen from the Legislative Council 
 and House of Assembly of Prince E<lward Island on the subject of Communication 
 5 
 
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 your dtpa^ct'""'^' '^^''^''' ^''^ ''''''■ '^""""'°'' '''"'''" •*^'^"'''^' '^"'^ «P«^'fi«^ '" 
 
 I have the honor to be, 
 
 Sir, 
 
 / 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 i^^S^^) G. POWELL, 
 
 Hie Honor Under Secretary of State. 
 
 The Lieutenant Governor of 
 
 Prince Edwai-d Island, Charlottetown. 
 
 Extract from Minutes of Executive Couii.;.! of Prince 
 Edward Island. 
 
 ^ COUNC/L CHAMBER, 
 
 January 14th, 1886. 
 
 to H^^M^Tp"'' "'""J" '" ^"""^'"'^ *^'"' '^^ "°^«'- «on«deraiion the Memorial 
 to He Most Gracous Majesty the Queen, unanimously adopted by the Le^islat v^ 
 CouncU and House of Assembly, in the Session of 1885, representing the ^'a . 
 wh.ch has acc^ed to the people of this Province in consequence of the failure of the 
 Dominion Government to fulfil that portion of the Terms of Confederation whch 
 guaranteed the J establishment and maintenance of efficient Steam Serv e fo^ he 
 conveyance of Mails and Passengers between this Island and the Mainland o th 
 Dominion, both winter and summer, so as to place the Island in continuous cot 
 
 rr r t : ??•""' ^^'^^^ ^"^ ^^^^ ^^''--^ «^«»-« -^ ^he doI i n^- 
 
 ramtulJecV'''""^^ ^' ^'^ '^^^"'^^ "^""^" ^' '''''' ^^ ^»«-' ^««5, upon L 
 
 Whereupon the Executive Council in Committee recommended that a Delegation 
 be appointed to proceed immediately to the Colonial Office in London for the 1110 
 of supporting the prayer of the said Memorial. ^ P'""'' 
 
 They further recommended that the Honorable William W Snll!v.« v> 
 Attcoey Gee,™, .„d U,e H„„„™b,e Dcald fJ^^I"^ ^.I^^Z^'^^Zr^o 
 compose the s.,d Delegation, and the Co™,nittee request that You,- HoIX u'l be 
 
 see.ur/„7-i.; ro;t.7ci";-a„T;: r^r/:„?:;:r;f:;r2 
 
 
[27] 
 
 ary of State. 
 
 HiH Excellency the Governor General to inform the Eight Honorable the Secretary of 
 State for the Colonies of the appointment of such Delegation. 
 Approved by His Honor the Lieutenant Governor. 
 
 Certified, a true Extract, 
 
 R. F. DEBLOIS, 
 
 Clerk Executive Council. 
 
 Extract from Minutes of the Executive Council of 
 Prince Edward Island. 
 
 COUNCIL CHAMBER. 
 
 January 14th, 1886. 
 At a meeting of the Executive Council in Committee. 
 
 Referring to the Report of the Committee of the Executive Council of this date, 
 approved by His Honor the Lieutenant Governor, appointing the Honorable William 
 W. Sullivan, Premier and Attorney General, and the Honorable Donald Ferguson, 
 Provincial Secretary, a Delegation to proceed to London to support the prayer of the 
 Memorial to Her Majesty the Queen, adopted by the Legislative Council and House of 
 Assembly, in the Session of 1885, relative to the non fulfilment, by the Dominion 
 Government, of the Terms of Confederation, in respect to St«am Communication 
 between this I«jl»ud and the Mainland of the Dominion, the Executive Council in 
 Committee recommend that Your Honor do communicate by telegraph to the Right 
 Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a notification of the appointment of 
 the said Delegation, at the same time soliciting that Her Majesty's decision may be 
 deferred until the Delegates shall have had au opportunity of being heard in support 
 of the prayer of the Momoiial ; and also that Your Honor inform His Excellency the 
 Governor General of the transmission of such Despatch, and request that His 
 Excellency will likewise bo pleased to telegraph to the Right Honorable the Secretary 
 of State for the Colonies asking that Her Majesty's decision may bo so deferred. 
 
 Approved by His Honor the Lieutenant Governor. 
 
 Certified, a true Extract, 
 
 R. F. DEBLOIS, 
 Clerk Executive Council. 
 
 [Copy.] 
 * [TELEGRAMS.] 
 
 ,„ ^ , . , „ , Charlottetown, 16th January, 1886. 
 
 10 Uolonial Secretary, London: 
 
 Government desire to notify you that Delegates proceed immediately to London 
 
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 afford opportunity ul their being heard. '""'^" **" '^'^^*"'^'^ '^ 
 
 (8ignod) A. A. MACDONALD, 
 
 Lieutenant Governor 
 
 Pj'Dce Edward Island 
 
 To Lieutenant Governor, Prince Edward Island : ^'>^^^^, January 26tb, 1886. 
 
 Your« Hixteenth ; do not perceive Queen can be advised thatHho hJ „ 
 to give docHion, or direct or enlorce action in thin ca«e. ^"^ P*"^"" 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 STANLEY. 
 
 ii f 
 
 ^ [Copy.] 
 
 Government House, 
 Sir:__ CharJottetowD, P. E. Island, 
 
 I L, January 18tb 1886 
 
 ihi» Island „„<, ibo M.iS rpitrfn ''":;^''r' ''''"''"""'™"<'° '"''»=«" 
 
 locommondinK that n D»l„, »„ ' 'P"'"'"* *" '" "■" ToiniB „f Conlodoration and 
 
 "l-pointod .o proceed i™m„diat„ly T the Co^„tl oZ V 7 .™' *''™'"'^' "« 
 mvmtine tho ,«ajc,. „, ,|,c MtmCial „n h^ ? "> I""-!"" for the purpose „f 
 the Queen, adoptli \y the L J, a ,™ oZ , 'H^' '° ^"' *'°'" '^'■'"'•°"'' M-JOB-J- 
 in the Se,„i„„ of 1885 and If re!, Z, ""-i Hon.e of A«,en,bly of this Mand 
 
 General o, »„„h applte 'i TdT "irth": ZT ^'' ""^"t""""^ "" «°™™-' 
 ■ntroduction to Her MaJestyJ Prineipalt r „ .y : "Ce f^the oT-'"' "''•" '" 
 bo may be .nformed of the app„i„i„e„. of »„eh DeHgatron, "'' "" """ 
 
 I have also enclosed herewith i fi,..fK«.. . „. 
 
 the .an.e date, referring to heloi ^t': 71^' "f""'-"' "^ '^"""" ^»""8 
 n.e to eommunicale by telegraphTthlRT'ht R ^'T""' """' '-'^omending 
 tHe Colonie., a no.itic^.ionl,, 1"„; 1«« .^;-™"-^;J-"''.T of State fof 
 
 time Bohcting thv. He,- Maie,ly', deeision m«l h„ ^f "z«> '"^ " ">« «""« 
 ..e Governor Oeneralof the ^^^1:7':2ZZ:::^^J^^Z 
 
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 >t of Terms of 
 >e deftii-red to 
 
 'Vernor 
 idwaid Island 
 
 26th, 1886. 
 w any power 
 TANLBY. 
 
 and, 
 
 ' 18tb, 1886. 
 
 ny Council, 
 ion botweon 
 station, and 
 an, Premier 
 Bcretai-y, bo 
 purpose of 
 0U8 Majesty 
 this Island, 
 e Governor 
 ed with an 
 8, and that 
 
 5il beariug 
 mraending 
 State for 
 the same 
 gates shall * 
 Memorial^ 
 Excellency 
 t that His 
 
 Excellency will likewi e be pleased to telegraph the Right Honorable the Secretary 
 of State for the Colonies, asking that Her Majesty's decision may be deferred. 
 
 I have the honor to be, 
 Sir, 
 Your obedient servant, 
 (Signed) a. A. MACDONALD, 
 
 The Honorable Lieutenant Governor. 
 
 The Secretary of State, Ottawa. 
 
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 • Ottawa, January 23i-d, 1886, 
 
 I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 18th inst., 
 transmitting an approved Minute of your Executive Council, bearing date the 14th 
 January, inst., upon the subject of Communication between Prince Edwai-d Island and 
 the Mainland, stipulated for in the terms of Confederation, and recommending the 
 appointment of a delegation to proceed to England in support of the pjayer of the 
 Memorial, together with a further approved Minute of your Council, bearing the same 
 date, referring to the appointment of such delegation, &c., and to state that the matter 
 will receive consideration. 
 
 I have the honor to be. 
 Sir, 
 Your obedient servant, 
 (Signed) G. POWELL, 
 
 His Honor Under Secretary of State. 
 
 The Lieutenant Governor of 
 
 Prince Edwai-d Island, Charlottetown. 
 
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 Ottawa, 28th January, 1886. 
 
 With reference to previous correspondence upon the subject of the appointment 
 of a delegation composed of the Honorable W. W. Sullivan, Premier and Attorney 
 General, and the Honorable Donald Ferguson, Provincial Secretary of Prince Edward 
 
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 Inland, u> proceed imuiodiuioly to the Colonial Office in London lor the nn-nn f 
 
 I have the honor to be, 
 iSii', 
 Your obedient (servant, 
 
 ^^'■^'"^^^ J.' A. CHAPLEAU, 
 
 Him Honor 
 
 rp^ ,. . , ,, yocrotary ol State* 
 
 Ihe Lieutenant Govcruoi- of ^ 
 
 Tiiuce Edward Island, Charlottetown. 
 
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 1>£PARTAIENT UF THE SECRETARY OF StATE, CanADA 
 
 Sir : — ' 
 
 Ottawa, January 28th, 1886 
 
 r 4 •^' ; 'tppointod to proceed imrnod atolv to the Oolnn.nl n<« . • 
 
 I have now to inform von th'i< rr;^ pv,. ii i ■ 
 
 In C0.UPI1UUC0 wUh Hi. U„„„.... ,.„,„^t ^ „„„ „„„,^ ^ ,^,^^_. ^,^^ ^^ 
 
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 I purpoHo of 
 the Queen, 
 ilund, at the 
 lice Edward 
 Liou of your 
 oen advised 
 jht Honora- 
 f'lih the rc- 
 
 y oi State* 
 
 , 1886. 
 
 ueral has 
 toutenant 
 J a o^ny 
 h that a 
 rovincial 
 Office ill 
 josty the 
 Island 
 between 
 
 rry into 
 
 >m RiH 
 
 Exuellency to Her Majesty's Princupnl Secretary of S'at., Cor the Coloiiien intro- 
 ducing the delegation to that \IiriiHt«r. 
 
 1 hnve tiie honor to be, 
 Sir, 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 Hon. W. W. Sulhvan, ;...,.„,, Vc. . 
 
 . ^ ., , „ „ S»o<!retarv of Slate. 
 
 Attorney General of Prince Edward Inland, 
 
 Loudon, England. 
 
 [Copy.] 
 
 (tovernment House, 
 ^^^'■'~ Oltawa, 27th .January, IS. :. 
 
 J have the honor of introducing to yon the Honontble William W. Sullixi.n 
 Premier and AKorney General, «nd the Honorable Donald Ferguson, Provincial Sec- 
 retary of the Province of Prince Edwar.l Island, who have been appointc<I a dele- 
 gation on behalf of the Gove.nmenl ot thnl Province t<, proceed to London fo,- tim 
 purpose of supporting the o«se of Prince Edward Island against the Dominion in the 
 matter of Steam Communjcution between the Island and the Mainland. 
 
 I have the honor to be, 
 Sir, 
 Your most obedient humble servant, 
 
 Colonel, ^^'^"''^ LANDs'dowNE. 
 
 The Right Honorable 
 
 Frederick A. Stanley, &c., &c. 
 
 Mt Dear Sir: — 
 
 [Copy.] 
 
 Colonial Office, 
 
 February 2.3rd, 1886. 
 Loi-d Granville will be happy to see you and Mr. Ferguson here at 4 n m to- 
 morrow, Wednesday, on the subject of the Address from Prince Edward Island to'the 
 Queen. 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 The Honorable, ''"'""'^ ROBERT G. W. HEfiBKRT. 
 
 W. W. SolliTOn, 4c., &<.., 4c. 
 
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 Certified Copy of a Report of a Committee of tfie Honorable the Privy Council 
 for Canada, approved by His Excellency the Governor General in Council/ on 
 the 7th Day of November, 1885. 
 
 ^.J^LuT'^'Tl^^l ^"'"^ ^""°'" '•"^^ ^'"^ "'^^«>- «'>n«ide.atio.. a Despatch, 
 dued 4th AugUBt 1885, fro„, the Lieutenant Governor of Prince Ed.vard Island 
 tran«m.tt.ng Jo. nt Addresses of the Legislative Council and Hou.e of Assembly o 
 that Prov.nce to Her Majesty the Queen, praying Her intervention on behaff of 
 Pnnce Edward Island to obtain from the Dominion Government u fulfilment o iL 
 engagement to maintain efficient steam service for the conveyance of mails and 
 passengers between the Island an.l the \fainlanland, summer and winter." 
 
 Tnint^JHf""'"''T.K'^T'"'.?'' ^^'"'' ^^««"««-y ^^^ -"oved to forwa.d the aforesaid 
 f:lfi^r;t;l tuet^'^-- ^--^' -^ Ass^.^y Of Prince Edward I.laod to 
 
 The Committee concurring in the report herewith of the sub-Committe of Council 
 to whom the despatch and enclosures were referred, further advise that a copy of this 
 M.nule and of the annexed report, if app roved,' be forwarded, together with a copy of 
 Colonies. ^''""'"' "^ '^' ^'^^' ^""^''^^'^ '^' Secretary of State for the 
 
 All which is respectfully submitted for Your Excellency's approval. 
 
 (S'«°«^) JOHN J. McGEE, 
 
 Clerk Privy Council, Canada. 
 
 (Copy) 
 Your bub-Committpe find that the Government ol Prince Edwa»l IJ„nH 
 to Confederation subsidized two steamers for the conveyance of ml I^^^ "aT'""" 
 to and from the Mainland during the summer seaM..^„a lr;L ^TeriroT^'" 
 months or more mails uere carried by ice-boats from C^pe T ave .^ to CanfTn 
 tme. and thence by sleigh to Amherst, the land carriage befJg hTtv two^mH '""h" 
 from Cape to Cape over ice and water, nine mile.. ^ ^ •"''""' ^''^ 
 
 Charlottetown and Georgetown. This tr':! ts ^ rf;ri;;nt::tisr;:' l" 
 mmntamed by that Company, but as their steamers have toCup early In IheTf 
 the Dominion Govcrnmer.t Hfeamor Norther, ^ " ' ^ ^ ^ ^''"' 
 
 continues it as long as the ice permits. 
 
 J^iyht then takes up the service and 
 
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 vVy Council 
 Council,' on 
 
 X Despatch, 
 ard Island, 
 sserably of 
 3 behalf of 
 aent of its 
 mails and 
 
 e aforesaid 
 I T^laDd to 
 
 of Council 
 
 )py of this 
 
 a copy of 
 
 te for the 
 
 I, Canada. 
 
 previous 
 
 a8Heni;ej-8 
 
 d ot dve 
 
 Tormen- 
 
 liles, and 
 
 i by the 
 ipany to 
 in New 
 cotiii, to 
 Factorily 
 the fall, 
 ice and 
 
 Previous to the Union paddle-wheel steamers only were employed and it was 
 very generally believed, and for good reasons, that a^crew stermfrwould JZ 
 
 Z mrwrTH""'"'"Vr '"""'* '"'"'■ P"''^^' ^"* '' ■■« ^'^^^«*»'«'- i'nprobable that 
 any man who had seen the Straits of Northumberland, or had any knowledge of the 
 
 cLbtoro " '"'t'^V"' '""'^ '"'' '"PP^'^^' '' P''^^'^'^ '^ ''-'''-^' - steamer 
 capable of crossing when the ice is at its heaviest in that season, and it is proper to 
 
 !Zr?K^?K n '""^•■^"^'°g P^'-'*«« t*^ ^^^ Union having such knowledge, under 
 stood that the Dominion Government would provide and maintain the means which 
 science and experience might determine as the best and most efficient for the end in 
 view, within the range of possibility. 
 
 The Dominion Government, willing and most anxious to do all it was possible in 
 the .nteresl^ of Prince Edward Island, in the season next following the Union sought 
 by public advertisements for persons to undertake the service, and eventually secured 
 a contract for ten years with a Mr. King who claimed to have a steamer specially 
 fatted for ice work She proved, however, unable to run longer than until the fourth 
 of January On the part of Mr. King it was claimed that the season was of unusual 
 severity, and by the inhabitants of Prince Edward Island it was alleged that the 
 steamer was wanting in power and of a model unsulted to the service. 
 
 The contract after this trial was cancelled, and the Dominion Government afler 
 the most careful aid anxious enquiry, contracted with a Mr. Sewell, of Quebec to 
 complete a powerful steamer on a model specially designed for ice service. 
 
 In December, 1876, this steamer named the Northern Light was completed and 
 placed upon the route between Pictou and Charlottetown, and has been maintained 
 each winter to date at an aggregate cost including construction of $249,95U.57. 
 
 As was feared, the Northern Light has been, during the severest part of the 
 winters, unable to force a way through the enormous tields of ice which block the 
 btraits at that season, but whilst demonstrating fully the impossibility of continuous 
 steam communication in mid-winter has reduced the period of interruption to an 
 average of one-thii-d of that previous to the Union. 
 
 In the Session of the Dominion Parliament of 188.*i, a Committe of the House of 
 Commons composed of three representatives from Prince Edward Island, and two 
 fom the Mainland, was appointed on the 23rd February to investigate the question of 
 steam communication with the Island. All the members of the Committee had per- 
 sonal knowledge of the obstruction to navigation in the Straits by ice in winter and 
 were well qualified for the duty assigned to them. 
 
 After long and careful consideration of the subject and examination « of persons 
 papers and records," the Committee reported on 18th April, 1883, in the following 
 words : It IS the unanimous opinion of the members of Committee, confirmed by 
 
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 the teBtimony Of witnesses of large practical experience, that no Hteamships can be 
 built capable of keeping up continuous communication in mid-winter." The foliowinir 
 extract from their Report sot this foi-th more at large :— 
 
 "House op Commons Committee Room, 
 
 " Your Committee beg leave to report as follows :- " ^^^^ ^^"'' ^^*^" 
 
 " When Prince Edward Island was admitted into the Union, the following was 
 one of the stipulations on the part of the Dominion Government contained in the 
 Terms of Union. 
 
 "Efficient Steam Service for the conveyance of Mail-, and Passengers, to be entab- 
 hshed and maintained between the Island and the Domiiiion, winter and summer, thus 
 placing the Island in continuous communication with the Intercolonial Railway and 
 the Railway system of the Dominion. 
 
 "This communication has been maintained in the summer neason by the Prince 
 Jviward Island Steam Navigation Company between Summersido and Shediac, and 
 between Charlottetown and Pictou, calling at Georgetown; and in the winter season 
 by the Northern Light between GeorgetowL ..nd Pictou, and by ice boats between 
 Capes Traverse and Tormentine. 
 
 "To determine the efficiency of this service in the past, and how communication 
 may be most regularly and efficiently maintained in the future, the Committee care- 
 fully examined the records of the trips made by the Mrthem Light during the seasons 
 she has been on the route; also summoned and examined some of the officers in charge 
 and find that she performed the following number of trips, and failed the number of 
 days marked opposite each season. 
 
 ^ "That on an average there were forty-eight days in midwinter she was unable to 
 eiiect the crossing. 
 
 " The daily records kept by the Captain of the Northern Light, and the testimony 
 given by the officers, show that the heavy ice encountered was the cause which com 
 polled him to discontinue crossing in mid-winter. 
 
 "The evidence of the officers examined is also to the effect that the steamer is 
 not sufficient to overcome the difficulties of the winter navigation, and although they 
 suggest slight improvements on her model, which would better fit her for the pur- 
 poses for which she was intended, still are unanimously of opinion that no steamship 
 can be built capable of keeping up continuous communication in mid-winter between 
 the Island the Mainland. 
 
 m 
 
 «( 
 
 We examined personally several gentlemen of large practical experience in 
 
 
 »•!-.■ '--^yuiumsitw 
 
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 ships can be 
 he following 
 
 prii, 1883. 
 
 )ilowing was 
 lined in the 
 
 to be entab- 
 immer, thus 
 [iaiiway and 
 
 ■ the Prince 
 ihediac, and 
 nter season 
 its between 
 
 iDQunication 
 oiittee care- 
 the seasons 
 s in charge, 
 number of 
 
 IS unable to 
 
 J testimony 
 which com. 
 
 steamer is 
 bough they 
 >r the pur- 
 steamship 
 »• between 
 
 erience m 
 
 cro««tng from the Island in the winter season, all of whom confirm the above and 
 whoso evidence is hereto appended." ' 
 
 The Committee having reached this conclusion made coitaiu sugifostions for the 
 impi-ovemonts of the route by the Capos, the most important of which, viz • the 
 construction of lines of railway to the Capes, and suitable shipping piors had boon 
 previously decided upon by th Dominion Government. 
 
 The Address points out that the distance from the Intercolonial Kailway to Capo 
 Tormentine is forty miles, and from the Island Kaiiway to Cape Travorso, twelvo 
 miles, which it is stated had to be travelled " in open sleighs in the coldest and most 
 stormy portion of the year. " but omits to state that a Kuilwiiy to Cape Tormoutino 
 was under construction, and a large sum provided lor the orociion of a shipping pier, 
 whilst to Cape Traverse, on the Island side, the railway had boon completed, and as 
 suggested by the Committee of Parliament, houses of shelter for passengers, boatmen 
 and boats, had been erected. 
 
 The language of the A.Jdress in alleging that the Dominion Government has 
 " shown no sufficient disposition to fulfil its obligations tow-jrds the Island," and with 
 having "unaccountably neglected and treated with apathy and indifference" the 
 interests of the Island, seems to the undersigned in view of all the circumstances 
 unwarranted. 
 
 For half a century the Government of Prince Edward Island forwarded mails ami 
 passengers by ice-boats across the Straits and by open sleighs overland for five mouths 
 in each year, and more recently by subsidized steamers in summer, instead of sailing 
 packets. 
 
 This change from sailing vessels to steamers for summer appears to have been 
 the only change or improvement made by the Island Government in tifty-yeais 
 although having control of a larger sum in revenue than the Island now pays into the 
 Dominion Treasury. 
 
 The efforts of the Dominion Government, as marked by expenditure to loeo 
 the wishes of the people of Prince Edward Island and to give them improved means of 
 communication with the Mainland, are of course known to the Legislative Council and 
 House of Assembly, although they have been overlooked by them when preparing the 
 Address. That expenditure may be summarily stated as follows:— 
 
 Cost and Maintenance oi Northern Light ^249 956 57 
 
 Subsidies for Summer Service and for ice-boats at Capes 196*07^.75 
 
 Construction of Cape Travei-se Branch Kailway and enlargement of Pier... 199190.03 
 
 Expended by Public Works Department in connection with Piers, Boat- ' 
 
 houses and Cable Service 25 GT8 53 
 
 To pay Island Government for Pier required in Cape Service 12,400.00 
 
 Subsidy fbr construction of Bailway to Cape Tormentine 118'40o!oo 
 
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 Appropriation for Pier at Cape Tormentine. 
 Total 
 
 150,000.00 
 
 il'! '-I 
 
 m 
 
 «951,698.00 
 
 Th.8 large expenditure lor the trannmiHHion, in comfort of pu^nengern to and from 
 the CapoH. .H worthy of more connidcration in view of the lact that in the Ta«t tw7> 
 aeaHOHH the average number of pu^engers in each crossing of the AtZr^ll Z 
 
 mfntaiTd then'" I'T T' ^' ^'" ^-'^^er fact that the^ominion Gov23^^ 
 SS-? m ^^"''"'"^ "' " '''"'' •*'"«« '^« ^P''"*"*? to 30th Juno 1884 of 
 
 vomonco to havo ,U,a,o cummunicutio,, «u,,.o„d»d for u ...i'l „r 48day. vTi dl 
 not warrant ho language of tho Addro™ .hat "J inoalouhiblo L hL bZ 
 «uffe.-od by tho poopio of i'rinoo iJd«ard l.land by tho failuro of tho dIi^ 
 Govorn„,„nt " to do what a Oommittoo of Parlia^ont 4.1 imp-iWo. '"° 
 
 In tho accompanying Addre»» pa»»od by tho Logblaturo in 1S84, it i. claimed 
 that the lo^a « great because tho chief pursuit of tho l.land people i. agrL ItmVanZo 
 
 rddf:r °" ""^ '" """"^ -^ "™'"''"™ ■""'-•- -<uat,:h!rt;:f,he 
 
 In considering thi» a««,rtion it mu»t be borne in mind that the Dominion r„™ 
 mentd,d not undertake the carrying of agricnltural p.^uce Lr frth oTanyZd 
 ajthongh ,t ha« at al, time» a«.„ed faoilitie, f„r\he transport tfalrLth; 
 
 It U further stated in the Add.-os, that Prince Edward Island has been uninstiv 
 and .»v.d,ously treated, i„ as much as the Dominion Government hrcon^^S at ^ 
 
 pllTfhTo «"o'of a' n'"', ';'■"" '"'T '""°" -'' " ■•""""^ - BritirCoTumh : 
 r-rovmce With 10 000 ol a population, exclusive of Indians and Chinese whilst in thn 
 
 case of Prince Edward Island, a sacred obligation is being violateTaniln hl^ 
 injury done to a largo body of people." ^ ° immense 
 
 The undersigned cannot refrain from submitting that a discussion nf .K. . .• 
 -mpot^nce of the several Province, and of the colpara.L TpTX It * ™ 
 
 l«lerai?™7 "'" " '"' " '""'"P™"""" b""""" the Provinces of the C„„. 
 
 In the distribution of public moneys Prince RMwitl T-l'ii,' i- - . <• 
 
 plaint. It is true that large expenditures have be™ m.ier^T.™yrZtn".Tj 
 
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 150,000.00 
 
 8951,698^00 
 
 to and from 
 Lbo luHt two 
 I Light wufl 
 rninent buH 
 10, 1884, of 
 on capital 
 
 raging only 
 ro the bent 
 iomo iucon- 
 yot it doe8 
 i buH boen 
 Dominion 
 
 in ulaimed 
 ire, and tbe 
 late of tbe 
 
 )n Govern- 
 any kind, 
 ly freight 
 
 n unjutttly 
 acted at a 
 olumbia, a 
 ilst in tbo 
 immeDHe 
 
 le relative 
 
 :berein of 
 
 ny which 
 
 the Con- 
 
 B of com- 
 d Canals 
 
 iu th6 general interest, but the local wants of the Provinces have not been overlooked 
 and Prince Edward Island has been dealt with in a most liberal manner and appaieutly 
 without regard to her contribution to the revenue. 
 
 The Address seeks in its reference to the construction of the Canadian Pacitic 
 Kailwav an opportunity lo establish and emphasize a wrong to Prince Edward Island. 
 iJoubtless the maintenance of continuous steam communication between the l«land and 
 the Mainland in mid-winter, is of as much interest to 'he people of that Province as 
 IS the construction of the Canadian Pacitic Kailway, although in the one case it means 
 the transport of nine passengers a day for an average period of forty-eight days a 
 year in mid-winter, whilst in the other it is u great national work, providing a highway 
 in common for the Eastern and Western Provinces, and the opening up of vas^ areas 
 ot the richest «oil upon which many settlers from the older Provinces, including 
 1 rince Edward Island, are finding homes, instead of in the United States. To take 
 the view indicated by the Address, that the construction of the Canadian Pacific 
 Kailway is merely a local wo-k. the comparison then suggested with Prince Edwai-d 
 
 ^ 1 nr°"m ''''' ^"^ '"''"^"^ '^ ^''^'^^ Columbia, a. Ontario, Manitoba and the 
 JNorth-Wost Territories receive as much local benefit therefrom as does British Columbia. 
 
 In a strictly local view it is not unjust to say that expenditure shall, iu some 
 
 tbe Logis- 
 lumbia " as a 
 
 , . . , ^5 'oflSjOOO," 
 
 demands a comparison of revenue returns from the two provinces. 
 
 "In the returns last published, 30th June, 1884. Prince Edward Island is credited 
 with — 
 
 From Customs tiToafi^i ±a 
 
 " Bxpisfl f 170,863.40 
 
 ^'^''^'^ 22,615.26 
 
 Total contribution to revenue ill93478~fifi 
 
 In the same year British Columbia is credi't^'wi'th— .'tio-oo 
 
 i^rom Customs ^oua mr oi 
 
 " Excisfl 1884,076.21 
 
 ^'''''^^ 58,018.89 
 
 Total contribution to revenue $91^^10 
 
 Jfearly hve times as much as Prince Edwa.-d Island in the comparison which is called 
 r I ^\\*;^*'«^'«°«« to the Canadian Pacific Bailway. In the Address Manitoba and 
 the JMorth-West Territories should be included as follows • 
 
 From Customs ft-ru^ iok »t* 
 
 " ExciPG ?F734,185.77 
 
 ""'' 157,417.99 
 
 Tot«!reven«e contributed by British Columbia, Manitoba and the North- ^^^^'^^"^^ 
 
 West Territories ^, rqq aqq qr 
 
 As against Prince Edwai-d Island .'VZ'Z.V.V.V.'.VJiJ.? 193 478 66 
 
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 If evidence were wantii.g of the anxious desire of the Dominion Government to 
 promote tbe .ntere«t8 of Prince Edward Inland in every possible way, it may be foutid 
 in the same pubhc returns ot the expenditure in and for the Island in 1884, which is 
 by no means exceptional, viz : ,*."!» 
 
 Payment of imprest on her public debt s,.qk am kr 
 
 Subsidy to Local Government for local purposes V;;;;;::;;;;. 164 Mo'oo 
 
 Postal expenses '^ *^ ^IJ ToTAV ^^'^t^^^-^^ 
 
 Less Postal Eevenue '''''^^^^"^ZZZZ::Z[[ZZf^M^ 
 
 ^si:J s:::^..^^^^ "" ^^^^^^^ ^^ ••— -eiptsZT:—. g^.-ol 
 
 Collection of Customs .■.'.'.'.*.■.■ in'^JlS? 
 
 Collection of Excise oSoJ 
 
 Administration of Justice ." ia Qnn'/.n 
 
 Maintenance of Lights and Buoys \. iqnKQwS 
 
 fCantaC'!'::!" ^'■^^'•°^' -«'-i^e of 'lio^unty payments 'i^\^ 
 
 Lieutenant Governor's sJary.! !!".!*.!'.!".!"'. !!! ?'iSn'XX 
 
 Subsidies to Steamers and Winter Service...!*.;!!!!."!;!; 4 «?« nn 
 
 Subsidy lo Fishwick's Steamboat onLl'?Sv 
 
 o^^do Expenses-Lights i!!!!;:!!!!!!;!;!;!;!:!!!;!:!!!!! IZTo 
 
 Public Heaiib!!!!!!!!!;!;!;!;;!;;; ^'«S-^^ 
 
 Audit and Assistant Receiver General's Offices!!!'.!'.!!!".!!!!!;.;;". 484R"q2 
 
 Subsidy to Telegraph Connection vtfa£ 
 
 ^expenditure on Hai-boi« and Eivere ! ^alf^'ll 
 
 Public Buildings 28,581.88 
 
 Construction of Lights *.'.!!! 2iRS*fift 
 
 ^^^Z^'^S^:^''^''^'^'^^^ 28;J46!o2 
 
 ^ ^"- ''•'•■^■•■::::::::::::::::::::::::^^1 
 
 Expenditure by Department of Agriculture i Sol ' oo 
 
 Representation, say ^f'^^?""" 
 
 Repairs of Dredges !!!!!!!!.'.!!! !.".: ! ?'J??*22 
 
 j-)i i.4 1 yy 
 
 '^°**' 8689.954.91 
 
 un.u^T ""'" !oo' ^^ ^y^'"'^^ that while the expenditure for the fiscal year ended, 
 f^tl^^l t "" ^'^'''^^-^1' '^' ^«^"1 revenue derived from all sources is but 
 . ?k' T ," ^ ""I ,°^ ? expenditure of over 86 per head of the population (112,000), 
 t V. u l?u ' 7? i *^.' '°'''' '■"""'P*' ^'"^ °°'>' *l-^2 per head. It will be claimed, on 
 behalf of the Island, that the population consumes goods the produce of the Mainland 
 JNo doubt this 18 true, but the same occurred previous to the Confederation. 
 
 In 1872 the imports of the Colony of Prince Edwai-d L»land from the Dominion 
 were : 
 
 From Old Canada «381.1W.OO 
 
[89 
 
 ei'Diuent to 
 ay be foirnd 
 J4, which is 
 
 195,407.55 
 164,510.00 
 
 17,310.41 
 91,924.01 
 12,141.00 
 20,866.21 
 
 2,506.89 
 
 18,800.00 
 
 19,059.62 
 
 3,539.38 
 
 2,156.00 
 
 7,000.00 
 
 32,876.00 
 
 3,000.00 
 
 3,000.00 
 
 1,993.87 
 
 885.40 
 4,845.92 
 1,946.66 
 28,581.88 
 7,861.89 
 2,158.60 
 18,946.00 
 
 541.85 
 
 1,389.88 
 5,000.00 
 1,714.99 
 
 9,954.91 
 
 1' ended, 
 8 is but 
 112,000), 
 imed, on 
 [ainland. 
 
 ominioQ 
 1,179.00 
 
 From Nova Scotia .' 358,961 .00 
 
 " New Brunswick 327,340 . 00 
 
 TT .... T°^' $1,067,480.00 
 
 Upon which duties were collected. 
 
 The total entered for consumption from all countries was $1,605,241.00 
 
 And the total revenue 302*757.00 
 
 The total exports of the Colony were $1,497,058.00 
 
 Of which Nova Scotia and New Brunswick took...., $749!l29.00 
 
 Or say one-half. 
 
 No doubt the same Inter-Provincial trade continues, with thirt change in favor of 
 Prince Edward Island, that the goods from the other Provinces are now free of duty, 
 whilst pievious to the Union they paid duties the same as on importations from other 
 countries. That Prince Edwai-d Island may have felt inconvenience fi-om the 
 interruption in the trips of the Northern Light, may be admitted ; but that her matei iiil 
 interests have suffered greatly is disproved by the fact that her exports to foreign 
 countries have nearly doubled from 1872 to 1884, whilst the increase of the whole 
 Dominion for the same period hns been only ten and a half per cent. 
 
 In making this comparison of the payments to the general revenues by Prince 
 Edwai-d Island and British Columbia, and the North-West Territories, and in stating 
 the annual expenditure for the Island, the undersigned are moved thereto only by the 
 implied charge on the Addiens, that the Western Provinces are being treated by the 
 Dominion Government more generously than the Island, and it is not intended that 
 the liberal manner in which all the public services of the Island have been dealt with, 
 regardless of the revenue i eceip(n, shall be taken as a consideration or recompense for 
 the alleged failure to carry out the Terms of Union. 
 
 The liberal treatment of Prince Edward Island results from the policy and 
 practice of the Dominion Government to watch over the interests of the smaller 
 Provinces, and Prince Edward Island, from her isolated position, and with a population 
 less than some cities on the Mainland, has received especial consideration. 
 
 If continuous Steam Communication has not been maintained, it is certainly not 
 because the Dominion Government sought to avoid expense. The Northern Light is 
 as laj-ge and powerful a steamer as experience in Arctic exploration has proved 
 advisable, and she is kept on full expense, equipped and ready to run at all times 
 during the entire winter, and were it possible to do so, no additionul expense would be 
 incurred except for fuel, whilst the cost of the Iceboat service would be saved, and the 
 construction of liailways. Piers and Boat-housee to and at the Capes, Traverse and 
 Tormentine, rendered unnecessary. 
 
 It is stated in the Addresses that "beyond the formal acknowledgments of 
 memorials from the Island Government, no otiier an«wera were given ;" but the action 
 
. \y 
 
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 taken by the Dom 
 
 in ion Government was a better answer 
 
 th 
 
 an any paper declaration. 
 
 offoru ,0 make ^rmricaln t l ' """ *"'' ""'^"'"^ """ '"^"'^ 
 
 shipping pier in connection vcith .k» »" "Fpiopuaiea ^^150,000 to erect a suitable 
 
 Cape. a« i-ecommehded h„ t!7. '"' »'"l-l'»"«!» bad been erected at the 
 
 Th«;hel,ird(wle„tlaa ^r' '" "^"'T'"' '"-"""o™ -f-ed ,„. 
 tbe Dominion GovelnLent l7 ^ <^°n™««"t witb the whole action and plans of 
 
 of .12,400 fo^ a7I d pTb^^ Wharf thM? rrV'^^ f"°' ""' " "«■"'""»" W™-' 
 Cape Traverse. ""' ""''"'^ '" '"" ™">"™o'ion of the pier at 
 
 town to Pictoiwura rr^l^f '^"' "■" ^'r'" *■""" Cl>«.lottet„w,, and George- 
 Dominion Goverlent nT^ "'""'"^° "' "•"^•"«'" ""y"' '' "»'"' ">at the 
 
 wa. most anZ;rl 1"! L^™" expe„dit„™» on railway li„. , to the Cape,, 
 
 that in the ordTna-TanZ, llflv 'T;.'' .T'""'' """ "^"'- ""'"if-atanlg 
 roturning .ore .h.^ rCirirrr^d^r rifeS.'^"'"'"" '^"™"""'" "" 
 All Of which i8 respectfully submitted. 
 
 .^f'^"^"*^ A.W.MCLELAN. 
 
 (b.g..ed) ________ A. CAMPBELL. . 
 
 My Lord :— London, Mftrch Ist, 1886. 
 
 Co.mit.ee o. th^H^o^'o^iweThe P°^ ZiZ oTcatl?" " ^^°'" ^^^ "' ' 
 
 the Legiatative Council and Honae o^ ^^ it o^ ploe'^w:d''°,T h'"'''''";''*' 
 
 M.jeatyiheQueen,ontheanbjoctoflheno„.falfllment bvTheB • ? *" ^'"- 
 of the Tfli-niM nf TT^j^.. -^u """ ^"'°'™®"^ "^y the Dominion Government 
 
 M-niL^^radrrr:: =li::— z„rt:Zn't'''-^ -" - 
 
 Your FinrHahin n>kr>«» "•- ^ - ' ! • • 
 
 ... in --&tr:7e:;:t":rr ^n^^ t:::r-!r;^^ 
 
 mm 
 
 p,w»is»»i,.fe;vi!.i?iAii.&*i!«dJi 
 
[41] 
 
 declaration. 
 
 ad quart ors. 
 I hazaixjuus 
 own to the 
 t when ap- 
 I'se, and for 
 
 le Tormen- 
 ' a suitable 
 h a subsidy 
 ted at the 
 jferred to. 
 id plans of 
 i payment 
 ie pier at 
 
 •oen made 
 d George- 
 V that the 
 -he Capes, 
 h standing 
 ment was 
 
 SLAN. 
 ILL. 
 
 , 1886. 
 
 honored 
 port of a 
 IdreNH of 
 to Her 
 irnment, 
 md the 
 
 remep- 
 neral of 
 
 Canada, da(ed 4th September, 1869, when commending the action of the Dominion 
 
 i^lrrV? '7P«"'"« .-g'^^'"^-- with the [.land, with a view to itn admission 
 into the Confederation, used the following words :- 
 
 "I trust that iu settling the Terms propose^! as the basis of this arrangement 
 the (government will deal liberally as well as Justly with the Island." 
 
 The undersigned deeply rogret that it has been fou.id necessary to appeal to Her 
 Majesty U. obtain that justice, in the carrying out of the Terms agreed npon, which 
 has hitherto been denied the Island. 
 
 The Committee of the Privy Council of Cana<ia give it as their opinion "that 
 It is altogether improbable that any man who had seen the Straits of Northu.nberland 
 or ha. any knowledge of .he ice obstruction in mid-winter, could have supposed it! 
 possible to construct a steamer capable of crossing when the ice is at its heaviest in 
 that season. 
 
 The undersigned submit that the offer of continuous steam communication 
 summer and winter, was an entirely voluntary act on the part of the Dominion, madJ 
 m 1869 when Canada endeavored, at the instance of the Imperial Government to 
 induce Prince Edward Island to enter the Confederation, to which the inhabitant^ of 
 the Island had previously been strongly opposed. The Terms of Union then proposed 
 were re,ectea by the Island, but upon a m.>re favorable basis, in other respects, the Union 
 was effected on 1st July, 1873, the conditions containing the same stipulation for 
 continuous communication as were offered in 1869. The undersiirned have everv 
 reason to believe that the terms were concluded i.. good faith, and they submit that 
 such terms should be carried out. Ample time has been afforded since the consum- 
 mation of the Union to effect this communication, yet the undersi,..ned must repeat 
 the language of the Memorial to Her Majesty, that "no sufficient disp, ition has been 
 shown by the Domiuion Government to fulfil their obligation, towards the "Island in 
 tnis matter. 
 
 The first steamer which was engaged t.i attempt the crossing between Geor^re- 
 U^wn and Pictou was notoriously unfit, as the Committee of Council acknowledge 
 She possessed no qualification for the service, having been originally employed as a 
 woocl-boat, and not having been constructed to receive steam machinery After 
 remaining on the route for two seasons, the Government wrere obliged to cancel the 
 contract with her owner. The Northern Light, which was nut designed for the serme 
 was purchased by the Government in 1876, and placed upon the route; her incapacity 
 f<^^r t^ie work was early made manifest, and has been patent to the Government for 
 many yoai-s, yet no steps have been taken to substitute a more efficient vessel or to 
 supplement her with another steamer. Here the undersigned would call attention to a 
 Hpeech in the Senate, in J884, wherein Sir Alexander Campbell, one of the Sub-Com- 
 
I'W 
 
 [42] 
 
 mittee, whose names are signed to the report now under review, promised that a 
 second steamer would be placed on the route to assist the Northern Light Sir 
 Alexander made use of the following language:— 
 
 "The notice that the honorable gentleman from Charlottetown has given is that 
 he will call the attention of the Government to the expediencv of making timely pre- 
 paration for replacing the steamship Northern Light by a new' vessel, combining such 
 improvements in design and construction as modern experience dictates. In reply to 
 the inquiry, I may say that the Marine Department has entered into a contract for 
 the building of a wooden screw steamer for light-house service in the Maritime Pro- 
 vinces and it is intended to build this vessel with extra strong timbei-s, sheath her with 
 green-heart, and plate her bows with steel or iron, so as to fit her for ice navi<ration 
 and to assist the Northern Light when necessary. She will be ready for service in 
 October next. It is also intended to repair the Northern Light thoroughly, next 
 season, replacing all defective timbers and planks, and otherwise strengthening the 
 vessel and fitting her thoroughly for winter navigation. There would then be, there- 
 fore, for the service of the Government in or near these Straits, the Northern Light 
 thoroughly restored and strengthened, and this new vesssi which is now being con- 
 structed, and which is to be finisherl in October, so that the valuable suggestions of 
 my honorable friend would be acted upon, and there would be another vessel there in 
 the event of an accident happening to one of them." 
 
 Strange as it may seem, the new vessel has never been employed to assist the 
 Northern Light, afthough the latter was unavailable for service last winter from the 
 26th January till tha 28th April, a period of ninety-one days. 
 
 It is true that a branch railway has been built to Cape Traverse, but it was not 
 completed until January 1885, nearly three years after tho appropriation for its con- 
 struction, and nearly twelve years after the Island entered the Union. A pier has 
 also been constructed at that point, but until some natural obstructions are removed, 
 it is available only for vessels of light draught, and a steamer cannot lie at it. A 
 branch railway is also in course of construction to Cape Tormentine in New Bruns- 
 wick, but it is, even at this date, only about one half finished, and, being in the 
 hands of a private Company, there is no certainty when it will be completed, notwith- 
 standing that the Dominion Government have voted a subsidy to the undertaking. 
 An appropriation was also made, some years ago, for the construction of a pier at 
 Cape Tormentine, but, up to the present time, so far as is known to the undersigned, 
 the site even has not been finally determined, and no attempt has ever been made to 
 run a steamer, at any season, between Capes Traverse and Tormentine. 
 
 The Committee of Council assume that the Island Government were fully con- 
 versant with the whole action and plans of the Dominion Government tow.'irds 
 improving the winter communication, yet the undei-signed have reason to believe that 
 the Dominion Government tbamselves wei-e not fully advised of what was being done 
 
[43] 
 
 tiBed that a 
 Light. Sir 
 
 :iven is that 
 timely pre- 
 )iniDg such 
 In reply to 
 on tract for 
 ritime Fro- 
 th her with 
 navigation, 
 ' service in 
 ighly, next 
 hening the 
 1 be, there- 
 \em Light, 
 being con- 
 gestions of 
 lel there in 
 
 assist the 
 ' from the 
 
 it was not 
 br its con- 
 ^ pier ha8 
 3 remove*!, 
 > at it. A 
 ew Bruns- 
 ng in the 
 1, notwith- 
 dertuking. 
 
 a pier at 
 dersigned, 
 n made to 
 
 fully cou- 
 t towards 
 >lieve that 
 eing done 
 
 in the matter. Although a Cummittee of Parliament, in 1883, recommended the 
 erection of boathouse^ at both Capes, for the accommodation of the men engaged in 
 the Hervice, and for the shelter of the boats, they vrere not tinished until the winter of 
 this year. Sir Alexander Campbell, speaking in the Senate, in 1884, said :— 
 
 "I am surprised to hear from my honorable friend opposite that the boathouses 
 have not been built. I called the attention of the Minister of Murine (Mr. McLelan) 
 to the matter last Session, and he told me that the boathouses would be provided. I 
 shall again call his attention to that question, and to the various suggestions that 
 have been made." 
 
 Again, in the Parliamentary Session of 1885, Sir Alexander Campbell, speakintr 
 on the same subject, said : — r ' r & 
 
 "My honorable friend from Prince Edward Island, who introduced this subject to 
 the notice of the House, has, I think, just ground fur complaint-ground for com- 
 plamt, 1 am sorry to think, perhaps against myself, although really, as he has almost 
 admitted, I am not responsible for the non-execuiion of the measures which, from 
 time to time, I have been authorized by the Government to promise in this House I 
 remember quite distinctly the undertaking which I gave that the boathouses should 
 be constructed, one on each side of the ferry. I made that promise with the authority 
 of the then Minister of Marine and Fisheiie., and as is my constant practice, the very 
 day the promise was made, I wrote to the Minister of Marino and Fisheries, that pur- 
 suant to what he had told me, I made the promise, and that 1 hoped he would 'keen 
 It in mind. I afterwards called attention to it. and there wore reasons which were 
 more or less sound-I can hai-dly say sound-which made the delay more or lo«s 
 excusable. It was thought for a time that the orders had been given, and that the 
 boathouses were in course of construction." 
 
 The Dominion Government have totally neglected, ever since Confederation, to 
 make any provision whatever for the transport of passengers, when compelled to 
 resort to the Capes' route. Whde the contract with the ice-couriers stipulated for the 
 carriage of mails, no arrangements were made for passengers, who were forced to 
 effect the crossing as best they could, although the Terms of Union require like 
 provision to be made for passengers as for mails. The undersigned would remark 
 that the benefits conferred by the Branch Bailway to Cape Traverse are very question 
 able, when it is understood that, after lauding passengers at that point, the Govern 
 ment made no arrangements for carry them across the Straits. 
 
 Nearly thirteen years have elapsed since the Island became a member of the 
 Confederation, and all that has been accomplished in the fulfilment of the guarantee to 
 provide continuous communicatien has been the purchase, for the Georiretown-Picto.. 
 route, of a steamer, which, during the last five years, has been laid up^an average of 
 seventy days each winter, and the completion, on the Capes' route, of a Branch Bail- 
 road twelve miles in length, only a small part of the distance intervening between 
 
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 Hi 
 
 Mtnist^oVthi'r' «":',^^« J"'-'7'--' R«''-«y- Eveu the promisen made by a 
 Mimste. ot the truwn (b.r Alexander Campbell) have received only tardy lulfilment 
 
 Referring tu the Repui-t of the Committee of Parliament, in the Sension of 188H 
 
 ctZr^ni \r'^" ""'T^ --^munication with the Island, the clmlttlfo; 
 Counci say that, after long and caretui conHideration of the Hubject. and examination 
 
 tHTTs^Sa'rnTe'ni ""'""'"' T ^-'—^-T Committee tepirted, on Zt 
 Apin, j!s»o, in the (ollowing wordw ;— 
 
 " It iB the unan.mouH opinion of the Members of Committee, confirmed bv the 
 
 airwu """'''"'^'P'""^*' ^^'""^"^«' '"^^^ - steamship' cTnbeC, 
 capable of keeping up continuous communicaf ion in midwinter." 
 
 The undersigned have examined the Keport of the said Parliamentarr Committee 
 and have failed to discover therein that they came to this conclusion ^' 
 
 The Island Legislature, in their Memorial to Her Majesty, having instanced the 
 anxiety of the Dominion to f ulHI its obligations to British Columbia, by he conl c 
 tion. at an enormous cost, of the Canadian Pacific Railway as contra«tL wff h ?hf 
 thy and neglect exhibited in carrying out its pledged faitl w t T nc^^w^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 m the matter of continuous communication, the Committee of Councirpioce j o i^^^ 
 Btitute a comparison between the amounts contributed .0 the general r venue t Brit-" 
 
 1^; ""' '""''' '^^'^'-^ ^"'*"^' «^^'"^' '^^- - '^^^'^-^^ SZZiSM 
 
 There is a not unimportant factor which should enter into a consid«rH.inn f*u 
 amounts c.-!2tvibuted by the two Provinces to whw.h ,J '"''' "^ "^"f ^«'»<'on of the 
 Halifax Commission. Jt.ing undef the ^ovil^ olh W ^ ?' ^- '''^ 
 
 ed Great Britain the sum of S6.500.000.' to be paid by the ul^i lltTH: '""^" 
 lege of using, for twelve years, the fisheries in the wate 'of Elfern CanLl 7'""" 
 the coast of Newfoundland. This amount was d.ilv n«iH h T n . ""** "P*"" 
 
[46] 
 
 made by a 
 i fuldlmeiit, 
 n Light ban 
 
 on or 1883, 
 jmtnittee ol' 
 ixaraination 
 )D thu 18tb 
 
 med by the 
 :an be built 
 
 committee, 
 
 tanced the 
 coDatruc- 
 ih the apa- 
 u-d Island, 
 ceed lo io- 
 le by Brit- 
 193,478.66 
 
 to submit 
 ther apart 
 of a moHt 
 
 ion of the 
 ide. The 
 tn, awai-d- 
 the pri vi- 
 and upon 
 tes to the 
 le 8um of 
 mndland, 
 aderation 
 icBce be- 
 Edwaid 
 tdmitted, 
 
 the Island claimed the sum of $1,250,000 as its share, under the award. This demand, 
 although frequently presented, the Dominion Government have steadily ignored, and 
 have retained in the Federal Treasury the amount which the Island still claims as 
 justly its right. The undersigned submit that, in any consideration of the contribu- 
 tions to the General Revenue, Prince Edward Island has a right to receive credit for 
 the interest, at four per cent., upon the sum claimed, and which would amount annu- 
 ally to $50,000. 
 
 The undersigned cannot relrain trom expressing their surprise that the Commit- 
 tee of Council, aware as they must have been, of the unequal circumstances of the two 
 Provinces., should have adopted so unfair a comparison as that they propose now to 
 review, and which is based upon partial and misleading returns. The positions of the 
 two Provinces present no pointri of similarity. The figures quoted are for the year 
 ended 30th June, 1884. At that time British Columbia possessed no du-ect means of 
 communication with the settled portions of the Dominion at any season of the year, 
 and accordingly was compelled to purchase almost all its supplies directly from 
 other countries. The.se imports all paid duty a*, the ports of entry in British Colum 
 bia, and the amounts collected are credited to that Province. Wiih Prince Edward 
 Island, however, the circumstances are vastly difterent. Owing to its proximity to 
 the older Provinces, a very large proportion (at least three-fourths) of the dutiable 
 goods which its people use is purchabcd from wholesale bouses in Quebec, Ontario, 
 Nova Scolia, and New Brunswick. As will be readily understood, the duties upon 
 these goods are collected at the ports of entry, and go to swell the apparent contribu- 
 tions of the other Provinces to the Dominion Exchequer. The Customs receipts, 
 $171,443.89 (quoted by the Committee of Council at ^170,863.40) represent only the 
 duties upon the goods which the Island imports directly from countries outside of 
 Canada, so that it is manifestly unfair, under such circumstances, to institute a com- 
 parison between British Columbia and Prince Edward Island. It is much to be re- 
 gretted that the Dominion Government should labor under the grave misapprehension 
 that the Customs duties collected in the ports of a Province can at all indicate ite con- 
 tributions U> the general revenue. By a parity of reasoning, the metropolitan county 
 of Middlesex, in Great Britain, might claim that it contributes the greater proportion of 
 the Customs' revenues of the United Kingdom, while outlying or inland agricultural 
 counties, such as Sufiblk or Bucks, might be held as not yielding adequately to the 
 Imperial Exchequer. 
 
 The difficulty of airiving at an absolutely correct calculation of the amount of 
 dutiable j/'j-jda which the people of Prince Edward Island consume cannot fail to be 
 appreciated, yet the undersigned submit that there are several methods by which it 
 may fairly be estimated. It must be premised that the people of the Island are very 
 large consumers of dutiable goods for the reason that, being chiefly engaged in agri- 
 culture and fishing, their manufacVures are very small as compared with the reat of 
 
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 Canada valuing, according to the la.t cen«U8 returns, only $31.33 per head to $72 63 
 per hoad of the other Provinces. ^ * 
 
 In proof of the assertion that the people of the Island are principally engaged in 
 
 XTrK 't"^'. !,*•« -•^-•g'^-i would again advert to'the CensuVZfns of 
 1881, which show that (the N. W. Territories not being included)- 
 
 One-half the area of Prince Edwai-d Island is cultivated 
 Only one-twenty-fifth of the other Provinces is cultivated 
 Prince Edward Island has a population of 51 to the square mile 
 Ibe other Provinces only 4.'72. 
 
 ^"7-0^™!'""""' °'"" '' """"" "' '"' "°"'' *"• '™^ »«» ■«"•« "f im. 
 The other Provinces onlv 33. 
 
 The other Provinces only 61 J bushels. 
 
 Sn^e: pitr:; sr '^''*" """" ''^'^""'' »"•"« •>•■■ "^o -'"■'• 
 
 averages ,16,59 for the Ia,..d .g.i„.t •,'^6 tZ '^ JtulTZZ ^'- ""'"'" 
 
 These tigun» clearly prove that the people of Prince Bdwarxi Island frr^ th« i . 
 ^heir not beioge..,„«ve manufacturer, il. „„der the necluy of 1 gTm^rH 
 goods CO a large extent, while the fertility of their soil, the value of thefr fl,h3a^ 
 
 stood the „„dere,g„ed submit the following calculations, designed to show that tl 
 .mports of dufable goods into the Island are ver, much Urger fhan euglsL b ' tt 
 
 ^ZZ<:' ■ "" ™""'""'"" """ °°°'''''""'-" '""■» ««-- pXoHi.'." 
 
 Method 1. 
 
 The average revenue of the Dominion from (Justom. anW w^ ■ -< .^ . 
 
 year, end^l 30th June, ,884, was »«.603,47rTL p p Jt „^„T PW Te '"j^wa'^ 
 
 Island that of tho whole Dominion is in the proponion of T J 397 IJ^n ,1. 
 
 ra..o, the Island, sha.. of the Customs and ExciL Avenue wouldll'; .0 ^95,3*: 
 
 Method 2. 
 In 1872, the year before its admission into the Union, Prince 
 BdwBi-d Island imported directly from count..i«. b«-ond * 
 
 Canada, goods valued at...: *" *i o^o kq, 
 
 The duty on which amounted to »M7J,581 
 
 ^ • • $184,227 
 
141} 
 
 ad to 172.63 
 
 engaged in 
 i Eetuina of 
 
 icres of im- 
 1 land 108f 
 
 ilue. 
 
 1 proof of 
 iks, which 
 
 'HI the fact 
 : imported 
 leries, and 
 ing under- 
 v that the 
 ted by the 
 eoportioD- 
 
 tbe three 
 
 Edward 
 
 Jpon this 
 
 $695,301. 
 
 And from Canada, good^ the growth and manufacture of 
 
 other countries, valued nppvoximafel}' at 
 
 The duty on which amounted to 
 
 429,354 
 
 89,168 
 
 $1,801,935 $273,395 
 
 $184,227 
 
 It will surely not bo argued that, in thirteen years, with a large incieaso in popu- 
 lation, the Island'H imports from countries outside the Dominion have deereiwed from 
 $1,801,935 to $822,966, or over 45 per cent., yet thid would appear to be the conten- 
 tion of the Committee ol Council. 
 
 In 1861, the imports of the Island amounted to $1,021,669 ; in 1872, they h:wl in- 
 creased to $2,439,064, or ut tho rule of 138.9 per cent. At the same rate, its imports 
 from countries beyond tho D >minion should huvo increased from $1,801,935 in 1872 
 to $4,304,824 in 1884, which, at the present wverage tariff (free and dutiable combinod) 
 of 18.64 per cent., would give a customs Eevenue of $802,419. 
 
 Method 3. 
 It is a well established principle that thu imports and exports of a country bear a 
 reasonable relation to each othei-. The imports of the Island for the ten years prece- 
 ding Confederation aggregated in value £3,543,147 sterling. The exports in the same 
 period, £2,569,091 sterling, shoeing that tho imports exceeded the exports by about 
 £100,000 sterling, or $500,000 annually. The imports of the Dominion for the lust 
 seventeen years aggregated in value $1,732,983,486; the exports iu the sumo peri(».l, 
 $1,390,946,803, showing that the imports exceeded the exports by about $20,000,000 an- 
 nually, or in the same proportion, aooortlirig to population, as the imports of Prince 
 Edward Island exceeded the exports iu the y^ars already quoted. 
 
 The exports of the Island have steadily incroa-jod during the last 25 years. 
 la 1861, it exported to all countries g<tods valued at $793,810, which had increased in 
 1872 to $1,497,058, or, at the rate of 88 3-5 per cent. 
 
 In 1872, the Island exported to countries beyond the Dominion goods valued at 
 $722,333, which had increased in 1884 to $1,310,039, or at the rate of 81J per cent. 
 
 Apply this rate ot increase to the Island's imports from countries beyond the 
 Dominion in 1872, and we have as a re-iult f )r 1884, imports valued at $3,267,509. 
 
 But the figures, contained in the Dominion Trade and Navigation Beturns, do 
 not represent the total exports ol the Island to countries beyond the Dominion 
 inasmuch as a considerable proportion, being shipped through Nova Scotia and New 
 Brunswick territory, is credited to tho exports of those Provinces. The annual export 
 of horses from the Island to the United States is not less than 1,500, valued at $150- 
 000. The Dominion returns for 1883-4 credit the Island with only 256, valued at 
 
[48] 
 
 ifi; K ;. .^ i"* T 1 ' "''° instance of many. A considerable part of the large trade 
 wh ch the Island doe. in eg^s ^ith the United States, is croditS.1 to iVew Swick 
 
 the Was I^dl'T'"'"' l^^l:\^^-^ '«'-Kf'y "''PO'leJ to Newfoundland. S^ P ene artd 
 atiiT r ' *»••«,"»»«»> «* them credited to Nova Scotia, being Hhippc^l by wa of 
 t^e £mmi.L'"fV* thene factn. it would be within the m'ark to^e'lE, «J Tndeed 
 
 mnoh'' u ®*'""I^ Of Prince Edward '.land, since Confederation, have increased in a 
 muc^hjarger rat.o than havo tho.o of the D,mini,n,as the followin.i< HKU.es will 
 
 The total exports of the Dominion for 1871-2, were $82,639 683 for 18834 
 exclusive of Che Island, 190,096.437, or an increase of only '-i! »«; cent., ^ alinHt 
 100 per cent., by which the Island's exports have increased in the same time. 
 
 To recapitulate thd results of the various metho<is:— 
 
 Method I oitnr ont 
 
 „ IT $695,301 
 
 u JV 802,419 
 
 *'* 671,668 
 
 Average Annual Contribution by the Island from Customs and 
 
 ^ Excise ^23 i^g 
 
 To which add Interest on the sum claimed as Island's share of 
 ;o'*Jra^ '*^ ^'®'"* amount expended for Fishing Bounties 
 *^'^^^> 41,430 
 
 mu- 1764,559 
 
 This bum of $764,659, the undersigned submit, should be accepted as closely 
 approximating the annual contributions of Prince Edward Island to the Dominion 
 Exchequer, and is much more likely to be within than in excess of the amount 
 
 ti^buted-to the Customs and Excise fievenuesT inlheTollowing Prov1nE^°881 aTd 
 1884, respectively : — ^ "* «uu 
 
 ,^"f^.^ $7.29 $7.54 
 
 g'"**';!" :•; 4.78 5.14 
 
 New Brunswick 4 84 4 93 
 
 Nova Scoiia 400 477 
 
 British Columbia :;i3:09 19.10 
 
 riince Bill ward Islsnd 2.76 1 78 
 
 It is absui-d to Hiippose that the foregoing figures represent the actual con- 
 sumption, per head, of dutiable goods, by the people of the various Provinces, rather 
 do they prove that (Quebec is the great importing and diatributing Province for the 
 
 have 
 
[49S] 
 
 large trade 
 Brunswick, 
 Pierre, .iiiU 
 I by way of 
 i, tui iDdeeii 
 laH doubled 
 •lea beyond 
 84, iraportH 
 revenue of 
 
 •eaned in a 
 ^"'•eH will 
 
 br 1883-4, 
 
 a8 againut 
 
 301 
 419 
 
 668 
 
 129 
 
 t30 
 
 159 
 
 m closely 
 Dominion 
 nt. 
 
 ?hich not 
 itt well, is 
 ie under- 
 ntly con- 
 1881 and 
 
 t. 
 )4 
 
 14 
 )3 
 
 '7 
 
 8 
 
 ual con- 
 
 i, rather 
 
 for the 
 
 h«ve^tli"Jl''r^,"^.b''SumiL'^„ir'"''', ?'",',""' ■"""" "l""™"™.- which thoy 
 
 funher in oxe*. :, Ihe .urn c&atr '' '^ '»'"'"'«''."» '"-WbaHon, will b^.till 
 
 of PrinrM:Ll,la,rd'Se Col.nU.S'::^'?-"'' «.?™;»™"' «; P-'omote tho i„.o,.<,.N 
 
 upon th» bland in Zvl 188r»r ,„.l °™r.'''' '"''"'" " '"'>''' "' "■» <"=P«"ditu,o 
 
 yeai 1S84, amounting in the aggiogato to $889,954 91 
 
 .ho So^„^: ^Zl:Z- it'^ndlrSdlr*"" '1".° \"'-^ "° '"-^ P""'- D""" "Wch 
 As the whole amounTohhe Wand S, whiT,h„ n "." """""""l «t 5 per cent. 
 0ni„n, ha. bean paid oft; lltT the oxceMon' polSSv TJS""* '' "i" """' "I 
 consider that t w unreasonable to ohnvir^ thl i.if T k ^ * """' *°® undersigned 
 the Public Debt, while SCinionf'^.b''oba;'^^- Pf'!''"'' "" ^^'' P'-«P«'-^'on •'^• 
 latter in tho average rate oaid unnn ihf'aV V"!J f ^^.P^'' *^""'"' **«d while tho 
 
 between .he two AIL would causradeclS^^^^ '^'^' "^ P^"'^"- ^^^^ '^•«'«'-«»^'« 
 aioB wuum cause a deciease in the amount charged of $39 081 51 
 
 In likem^anuer interest is charged 5 per cent, upon the capital expenditure on 
 
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 I 
 
 l£fl 
 
 m 
 
 i^®-!.!''?.^^ Kailway. Calculating tho intorost at 4 por cout., would reduce the 8um bv 
 $5,789.20. •' 
 
 The undoreigned observe aluo that tho oxponHe of operating tho railwuy, in oxcohh 
 of the receipts, is charRed at $1»1,924.01. Thoy desire to remark that this amount 
 includes the sum of $16,000 of extraordinary expenditure, which should not bo 
 debited to the Island, and thoy consider that it should be deducted. 
 
 The undereignod also obsorvo that tho subsidioB to the stoamors employed in tho 
 ^""il?« L^"*^ ^^"f*"" "®';^'«0' a°J the mon engaged in the Capes crossing, amountinir 
 to $32 8-76, are charged in ftiU to the Island. This they consider unfair. Many of 
 the inhabitantfl of the other Provinces derive equal advantages from this forvice with 
 the people of the Island, and the means of communication provided aie used to a 
 much larger extent by the residents of the Mainland than by those of the Island 
 rhe undersigned therefore consider it only just that a portion of the expenditure than 
 incurred should be charged to Canada, and submit that not more than one-half of the 
 sum expended m such connection should bo debited to the Island, in which case an 
 abatement would result of $16,438. ^^ 
 
 „ ,.P« Bubsidy to Fishwick's steamboat of $3,000 for communication between 
 Halifax, Cape Breton and the Island, the undeiHignod submit, has no right to be 
 charged in full to the Island ; they object to more than one-thii-d of the amount beioL' 
 80 debited, and then a further reduction would be effected of $2,000. 
 
 *u ?^^ ^^^^' ''*•>*>, '»>e undersigned consider should not in justice be charged to 
 the Island, amount in the agg.egate to $79,398.71, thus reducing the exi^enditure for 
 1884, as stated by the Committee of Council, to $610,646.20. 
 
 u *^.u ^P»<;"''»^e' ^^,e undersigned submit the following comparative statement of 
 what the Island annually contributes to the General Kevenue, and what it rocoives in 
 return : — 
 
 Average annual contribution by the Island fiom Customs and Excise $723 129 
 
 To which add interest on the «um claimed by the Island as its share of the ' 
 fishery Award, less the sum paid fb; ?ishing Bounties 41 430 
 
 Sum claimed by Committee of Council to be annually expended 
 
 on the the Island $689,954 
 
 Liess amounts which undersigned contend should bo deducted.... 79 308 
 
 Excess of annual contributions of Prince Edward Island over 
 Dominion expenditure 
 
 $764,559 
 
 610.646 
 
 $153,913 
 
 In proof of the efforts of the Dominion Government to provide improved means 
 of communication, the Committee of Council adduce various items of expenditure sinro 
 Confederation aggregating $!)51,698. Among these items appears thTsZ of $150 
 JriS'X ?^ '""'.'^^ construction of a pier at Cape Tormentine. which hm tJt bem 
 expended, the site so far as the undersigned are aware, not having yet been finally de- 
 termined. Another item is thaj of $118,400, subsidy for tho conltluction of r h-LI 
 r»u«aj- 10 V »pe lormemme. Thi^ road is only about half completed, and the sub^ 
 sidy ^ai up t« November last, when tho fieport of tho Committee of Council was 
 adopted, did not exceed $2U,000. Neither do the undersigned consider that the whole 
 
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 u the Hum by 
 
 uy, in oxcof-H 
 thin amouut 
 lould not bo 
 
 loyed in the 
 ;, amounting 
 r. Many of 
 porvice with 
 re Used to a 
 f the Island, 
 indituru tbuH 
 e-hulf of the 
 bich catie an 
 
 ion between 
 
 right to be 
 
 nount being 
 
 I charged to 
 endiiure for 
 
 jtatement of 
 roceiveB in 
 
 ... $723,129 
 
 be 
 
 ... 41,430 
 
 •764,659 
 
 610,646 
 
 $153,913 
 
 oved meaoa 
 diture since 
 m of $150,- 
 has not been 
 a finally de- 
 of H branch 
 ind the sub- 
 /ouncii wa8 
 t the whole 
 
 of thin PitbRidy shoald be charged against the Island. The work is situate in the Pro- 
 vince of Ne»v Brunswick, and must bo presumed to be of great benefit thereto, other- 
 wise a private Company would not undertake to build it without uny previous assu- 
 rance of assistance from the Federal Government. Besides, the subsidy nas only been 
 granted in accordance with a policy pursued by the Dominion Government of giving 
 aid to certain lines of railway on the mainland. The sum of $12,400, to pay the Island 
 Government for a pier at Cape Traverse, is also included in the expenditure, though at 
 the time the Committee of Council made their Report that amount had not been ^airf. 
 Another item is for cable service, which doubtless means the subsidy of £400 sterling 
 annually paid to the Anglo-American Telegraph Company. As the assumption of this 
 subsidy by the General Government was under a distinct and separate article of the 
 Terms of Confederation, and has no connection with communication by steam across 
 the Straits, the undersigned object to its being included in the expenditure for the im- 
 provement of steam communication. This subsidy for twelve years amounts to $23,- 
 372. The Committee of Council include also in their memorandum the subsidies for 
 the summer mail service and for the winter crossing at the Capes. As similar amounts 
 were paid by the Island Government previous to Confederation, and as they represent 
 only the cost of maintaining the communication which the Island had before the 
 Union, the undersigned cannot admit that they should be included as expenditure for 
 improving the means of communication. 
 
 The undersigned consider that these various items to which they have taken ob* 
 jection should be deducted from the amount which the Committee of Council claim to 
 have been expended, when the memorandum of expenditure would read as follows : — 
 
 Amount cln!n » have been expended $951,698 
 
 Deduct f' aue Lormentine Pier, not expended $150,000 
 
 Allow one-half paid as subsidy to Cape Tormentine Branch Rail- 
 way and deduct balance 108,400 
 
 Deduct half of Summer Mail and Iceboat Service 196,073 
 
 Deduct ror Cape Traverse Pier 12,400 
 
 Deduct Cable Service 23,372 
 
 $490,245 
 
 Leaving $461,463 
 
 as the amount actually expended within the last 12 years to meet the wishes of the 
 Island and to give improved means of ri)mmunication with the mainland. 
 
 In the foregoing pages the undersigned have endeavored to show and, as they 
 consi<ler, have clearly established — 
 
 • (1) That the Dominion Govex-nment voluntarily, and without any solicitation on 
 the part of the Island, covenanted to prov'ide continuous communication, by efficient 
 steam service, winter and summer, between the Island and the mainland — that this 
 engagement they have entirely failed to carry out. Further, that the Dominion Gov- 
 ernment have never, up to the present winter, provided in any manner, for the trans- 
 port of passengers when obliged to resort to the Capes' route, where they have not 
 even attempted the use of steamers, that they have failed to carry out the promises 
 made by their ministers to the representatives of the Island, and, generally, tnat they 
 have displayed great in.-ictsyity and rolHctanco to improve such c-ommunication as has 
 been afforded. 
 
 (2) That the Committee of Council have erred in representing that the Domin- 
 
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 ^^^TS.irZr7::^^^^^^^ the amount .-eceived fro. the 
 
 contHhu.s to the Dominion E? O. Ir^rtl^ S^^'X^l^ ^^^ 
 
 P^r^^^^^yt^liltnTrol^^^^^^ <^^^'-"-' 0'-™ to have been ex- 
 
 cafon With the mainland i. C^t ^^^^^^^^^{^Xl^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 l^^^^^^^^^^^^ «tate that -.ince the Union, 
 
 Edward Island Steam NavigaUon Company^ o ranT^'^" Government to the Prince 
 of open navigation, from Shediac in New fiunswir-k tl%T""" '^'"^ ^"'''"^ '^^ ««^o" 
 from Pictou in Nova Scotia to CharlSown and rL S«'"'"«r«'«le on the Inland, and 
 sire to correct a misapprehension undrnXiohr^^r^^ T"" I ^''^ undersigned de- 
 that daily communication exists betvv?«n^ <? Committee of Council seerato lal^jr 
 case, as the steamers cZect tth pTctou^nrv' ft^? r '°^ '^' ^f "^'^V ^his is not The 
 inferred that the payment of $10,000 a veai for ^hL' ' "''"''• J"''^ '^ "^''S^' l>« 
 ment entered into by the Dominion P II ^^^''^^s service was under a recent a.rree- 
 the undersigned desL to sayTrsS^'^^^relr;^ '^' ^''T ?^^'g«««n Comply, 
 ment previous to Confederation and the ?f,\^i™r • ^'*' '"''^' ^^ '^« ^'^''^"d Govern- 
 carrying out that agreement ' ^^"^'"'on, in now paying that amount, is only 
 
 -^^^ll^^^^^^^ the Union, paddle- 
 
 minion Government have^btained the suLtitutio„ r^^'"'"'?" '^^' "^"''" '*»«" '^^ ^^'- 
 desire to say that the identical baats whS nHed 1 » tr'^f '?™''"'- ^^^ ""dersigned 
 vious to the Union are still the only ots^em^^ye^ in'^hare'rlice"""'^ ''" ^^""^ P''*^" 
 
 meanton^'pT^^^^^ upon the best 
 
 dersigned find that many TcXn^on 'tions Z« rJ'/''""'^ ""' '^u« "^'*'"'^"^' '^- ^^^ 
 some remarks. ^ ^^t^mmonaations were made upjn which they desire to offer 
 
 takeJ£°\Sr;rZnre?l:5''et'l;; SS ■" /M.^^P- ">™"' "« -Re- 
 acted upon until the present winter ^ ""■■"■aot, jet tli,, Huggestion wa, „„t 
 
 cem™„7f l'?rtio™t^tet"a.roVtf &t ^"""il'"?'' "^ P-n—t re- 
 
 g«.d.„oe of the boat, while '''■o«<Cif::ioSli!:xi:'ci%t.ts'^ '"'■ "■" 
 befo.?tC"x:rr,iKr»itreiian'erd'^^ -^r '^« -"-o- 
 
 the winter m oonneotio,, with the ioXLite and LTh >.„ 'f'l " ?''r'''"''''''° P™''"" "f 
 when not at work, and they reeoraraended ?h„ ^ ""^^'^ ''""''«' i" the boa,-d.ice 
 
 by aotnal experiment, the ferbrtrof thl n,v,iecr' 'C ''"' ,''' '*'"' "'»""'™' '» "^'t 
 ..ded^ nor ha. any attempt been ™Le .i'l^.rtr^-r.e^^jriitVo'f':^..'';:^' "" 
 
 gationclmpr^rbliSr/l'TotnZr™ """ 1'" '»'"««ftheS,ea,nNavi. 
 to porforrh th*- >"o:L- , • • . s i^ominion (government, wnro aJf/^o-i+H",. ;_-j , 
 
 not capable oreon.endi^ with ice, ^nd K^„lLVr:;.L!lC.dto:li;,;rir 
 
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 ^ed from the 
 it the Island 
 is expended. 
 
 ive been ex- 
 >f coramuni- 
 •efor. 
 
 the Union, 
 the Prinoe 
 : the season 
 Island, and 
 I'l^igned de- 
 ina to lal)or, 
 I is not the 
 might bo 
 Jent agree- 
 Compuny, 
 id Govern- 
 int, is only 
 
 D, paddle- 
 en the Do- 
 idersigned 
 yeais pro- 
 
 the best 
 I, the un- 
 le to offer 
 
 be under- 
 was not 
 
 nient re- 
 d for the 
 
 evidence 
 ortion of 
 3oai-d-ico 
 ■1 to teat, 
 Ben pro 
 >ct. 
 
 m Navi 
 adequate 
 hey are 
 10 cro*s. 
 
 ng about three weeks later in the fall, and commence two or three weeks earlier in 
 the spring, and they recmmeu-led th«t goo I siibstantial boats nhoiiM he provided to 
 meet the requu-ements of the Island, and th.t ut least oi.o of these bo.ts shou d bo a 
 screw-boat, of such construction as would enable her to run as Me in the all and as 
 early in the sp.mg as a proper regard for the safety of life and property wm?ld permh! 
 
 that Ih^lZiZT^'lT)? ^S: '^'^"V ^^•>"^' disrogar<le.i, and, notwithstanding the fact 
 that the contract with the Stoun Navigali ,ri Company expired two years am, the 
 
 The Committee of Parliament further recommended that, inasmuch as the evi- 
 dence tak«n beforo them went to show that the Northern Light was fast bocom ng un- 
 fit for service, another suitable steamer should be provided lu take her place. 
 
 This recommendation has also been disregarded, the Mrthem Lu,ht beintf still 
 
 ;7nr,iatqtS' ''' '^"""^"^ ""^^""-^'^"^ ^^"^^ '^^j-'-' »«- «e/iwor,rn^;:'!; 
 
 len^t^rrhlf inf-T* ''*''''' ?"' ^l*""*"! it necessary to call :montion, at considerable 
 
 The Committee of Council say that "the change from .ailing vessels to sto .mors 
 tor summer, appears to have been the only improvement effected by the Island Gov 
 ernment, in their means of communication in fifty yoars. although Lv.nico.iro of" 
 a larger sum in revenue than the Island now payi into the Dominion "The u^fai 
 ness of the later part of this statement, the undersigned bavin ™ a" oady pointed o. 
 they need no again refer to it. They would raercl/remark, that the ZZe lo ov 
 
 thT?s£ A'f"'"'"' "^'^''^ ^"-T '^'"^^ '^ portion of they^ar, had cS the people of 
 the, Island off from connection with the mainland, was one of the principal indu.e 
 
 r'n^^l V^^"^ '^ ""•'•' '^" ^"'^"' ^"^ '^^y ^omideveA that, by coTd Jat h.g w ,h 
 Canada the co-operation of many of the people of the other Provinces, who v^^er^in 
 terested equally with the people of the Island, would be secured. 
 
 nnmll!;*' f^°™™*"^« .""^ CouMcil State that, during the last two seasons the avenae 
 n.nf %v'iL'Tot'dIsVutir^h"°"•■"^"' the 7\^..M.r« LigHi, .as on-y a' fractio;;? 
 
 On this point the undersigned desire to introduce an extract from a speech delivered 
 
 "e^iTa^r'nit'ors-s^-"':' "°"- ^'- "^'*"'"=' "'"^'" ^-»^edrtrnd':'ro"h= 
 
 .a^t ofatcl^m^tiatlXrrdVS-sLr'" Hr,;tt'SSsfr''- '"' '" '^^ 
 "On m, return home from my duties in this Hou« last spring, I was detained on 
 
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 N 
 
 passengers. The point to which I wish to draw he atfenTion of the Hou e anS nnrn 
 b±H' on' ?"'"'?" °' '^' Government, is, that there were from y^to "r. assen«eS^ 
 board on her return; my honorable friend who sits opposite (Mr MonSerff ,.?« 
 here were 87 passengers on board, but this I have no hesitation in s J .rth/rl wL 
 
 passage across, and they had not the means to pay their expenses f Zv ZTZLf 
 
 The Committee of Council stale that the small passenger list of the ATort/i^rf. n.hi 
 and the large annual deficit in working the Island Railway are VL J«V,'S^ ^'^u ' 
 limited travel to be provided for. The undersiened suhmi; th!^ Z ^"'^^ °^ '''^ 
 
 no justification for the failure of the DominTon^G^^^^^^^^^ ^T'T' 
 
 to the Island. So long as Communication with he ZnTanS is TalTcerL' n fhSX 
 IS large, but with the irregular movements of the "Northern Tiorht^LnTfi 'J J"***^ 
 
 t:VLl ^^r.^-^r'^^^ '^ '-^ ""^ extranrd1nal'y";at"tra;f;nd'^^^^^^^^ 
 So far as the Island Railway ,s concerned, traffic is restricted, for the reason tha? a te th. 
 close o navigation no shipments can be made from the Island. Were t^e Isfand W^^^ 
 munication with the Intercolonial Railway and the oth^r rnilu,^„c !!f »t n • • °'"" 
 .in„o.s, as Canada solemnly premised i.^sL.ld be, .he Val^toTd be dW.^ar"'"" '""^ 
 The Committee of Council desiie it to be borne in iTiinH thof ♦!,» i^ • • .- 
 
 freight traffic is more r.muneratfve ''an passenge Sc aid ttt' 'II ""H" ''''' 
 powerful steamer had been provided, having fSsedcar^o room .h ^^T *"^ '"°f! 
 have been much greater, and'.he outby proportionaUy less ' ' '^' '"'"■■"' "'""''* 
 
 ih. non^S""""'"'^ °^ ^""'f '' .'"y '^^^ " '^ *''• be claimed on behalf of th^ Island th.f 
 the population consumes goods the produce of the Mainland hnVVhJ^ ui u • ^ 
 
 the same occurred previous to the Confederatbn ;'• and "iey .VoceeS tolol^^ *^"'' 
 
 s:::^Ct;^'-l^^^-.if::^;!i^^^^ 
 
 manufacture of other countrie^ valu^dTt ^r/x/Zi Stlso"ll l^^^Tn'^^^^^^^^ 
 
 jcwed no duty v.Uued at»58,i9o; so thar.'these amounts being deducied the sum of 
 
 $638,127 would represent the real value of our imports from the Dominion ' 
 
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 I enable the 
 left George- 
 about loo' 
 , and parti- 
 sscngers on 
 mery) says 
 
 there was 
 pxpects to 
 s a simple 
 number of 
 ) be a vast 
 because it 
 iting for a 
 
 been long 
 I'ork, while 
 passengers 
 ve another 
 
 ce of the 
 onstitutes 
 ibligations 
 the traffic 
 Icubt that 
 ; limited. 
 , after the 
 nd's com- 
 nion con- 
 
 1 Govern- 
 iny kind, 
 offering, 
 ipacity of 
 i Dom in- 
 own that 
 nd more 
 IS would 
 
 and that 
 s is true, 
 he value 
 ies were 
 curately 
 linion of 
 wth and 
 s Island 
 sum of 
 
 The Committee of Council state that the total value of goods entered for con- 
 sumption in Prince Edward Island from all countries, in 1872, was «i,6o5,24i. The 
 undersigned cannot conceive where such information was obtained. They have carefully 
 examined the Trade Returns of the Island for that year, and they find the total Imports 
 into the Island amounted in value to $2,439,078, nearly if not all of which were entered 
 for Home Consumption. The undersigned must express their regret that so grave a 
 misapprehension should be entertained by the Committee of Council as to the trade of 
 the Island. 
 
 The Committee of Council say that "no doubt the same interprovincial trade conti- 
 nues with this change in favor of Prince Edward Island— that the goc.ds from the other 
 Provmces are now free of duty, whilst, previous to the Union, ihev paid duties the same 
 as on importations from other countries." There can be no doubt that interprovincial 
 frade continues, as the present tariff of the Dominion is framed with the special view of 
 encouraging manufactures. This trade is, however, much mure advantageous to the other 
 Provinces than to the Island, as it is impossible that manufactures can be carried on, on 
 the Island, to any great extent while regular communication with the mainland is inter- 
 rupted for over four months of the year. That the people of the Island obtain certain 
 goods from the other Provinces free of duty is true, but the statement is, nevertheless, 
 misleading. Protected by a high Customs duty, the Quebec or Ontario manufacturer is 
 able to obtain in many lines of goods, prices nearly, if not altogether, equal to the cost and 
 duty of the same goods of British or Foreign manufacture. Situated as Canada is, and 
 having a view to the infant state of her manufactures, and the tariff policy of the Unittd 
 States, the undersigned believe the fiscal |)olicy of Canada to be a justifiable one ; but 
 while the Terms of Union in the matter of Steam Communication remain unfulfilled, the 
 people of the Island are precluded, to a considerable extent, ""rom participating in the 
 benefits which that policy is calculated to confer. 
 
 The Committee of Council, while admitting that the Island may have felt inconve- 
 nience from the interruption in the trips of the Northern Light, yet consider that the ma- 
 terial interests of the Province have not greatly suffered, owing to the fact that its exports 
 to foreign countries have nearly doubled from 1872 to 1884. The undersigned fail to 
 comprehend why this argument should be admitted in justification of the failure of the 
 Dominion Government to carry out the Terms of Union. That the Island has improved, 
 is notwithstanding the inaction of the Dominion Government, and its progress is due to 
 its natural resources and the great industry of its people, and tends to show how much 
 greater its prosperity would have been had it enjoyed the continuous communication 
 which was guaranteed it, and which it had a right to expect. The Island's contributions 
 to the Federal Treasury in excess of the expenditure, together with the money which has 
 been uselessly expended upon the inefficient communication afforded, would very proba- 
 bly be adequate to defray the interest upon a sum necessary to construct a work which 
 would effectually overcome its isolation. Here the undersigned desire to say that the 
 Ministry of Prince Edward Island, so far from regarding the Canadian Pacific Railway as 
 a local work for the benefit of British Columbia only (as alleged by the Committe of Coun- 
 cil), have always warmly supported the present Administration of the Dominion in their 
 policy of constructing that great national highway ; and all that they now ask is that a 
 work of vast importance, not only to the Island but to the whole of the Dominion, as sol- 
 emnly guaranteed as was the Railway to British Columbia, should be undertaken and 
 brought to a successful completion. 
 
 Within the past few months a scheme has been proposed which, it is claimed, will 
 
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 and that tne cost of such an und3/„'"'L':''r«y communication could be effec ed 
 unreasonable to ask the Governmm of Can^^^^^ 
 
 soundmgs were taken, and the SeTo f 1 Strall'' '?'"^- ^"""« '^^ P^^^ summer 
 the laymg of the tube, the Admiralty chart .n T' '""""^ ^" ^'^ admirabl> adapted fj; 
 which was made. ^^miralty chart, corroborating the results ot the exanSiation 
 
 DomS^GorTen^ SlJ^S. If ts tj^^ ^^^ 'r^^T " ^' '^^ ^^'-^ »^y the 
 isolated position, though possessing a ^pSn leSThLn""''^^ "" '^'^'^^ oft^ 
 
 ro this statement the undersigned desire "o ex. em tI T^ ''"'" ""^ ^^^ Mainland, 
 beheve that Prince Edward Island contrbuLsm' .1..'^ ^''' "'""^'^ P^°^^d, as they 
 returned in expenditure. 7'o the un/ormn.^« t''e genera revenue, more than is 
 
 treated with exceptional liberality anithatTn '"'''''^'■''''"'•°" "^^^ the Island is bein ' 
 third of the amount expended. Is'' pTotJly du'e Thetvldi? ''^i'^^. g^"-«' revenue oi"' 
 General Government in the remnner^tZi V.u ■ '"^'^lous distinction made bv the 
 erroneous impression has possTbTyTnCced tieT?'^'',''^ "" "^^ ^«'«"d. The satJe 
 to the present time, to maintain manv of ^hi m^"^'^ Government in declinin/uD 
 expressly bound to do so by thrBrSXth aS." r!ca ^'cT " ''' ^'°^'"*=^' ^'^'^-g' 
 
 The Committee of Council <sav "tu^ « m .■_ 
 as head quarters ; her officer" nd'cre^ are fnhl^Zr'^''K''\\ ^'^^^^ ^' Charlottetown 
 and hazardous efforts to make comin fnL ilf "" °u '^^ ^'''^"^' ^^d her unceS 
 unknownio the Island Government "The Uomm.>r '^^f^^"^«' -rather cannot be 
 Idea that the officers and crew of the "Nonh^r^ l\? .?""^'^^'^"' to entertain the 
 sequently bold enthusiasts, and would Lwimn„/-^^^''^^'"S ^^'^"d men, are con 
 •am communication with the Mlland tL . n^^^^^ 
 
 whatever zeal the officers of the" SernliJht-' h.^r^^^^^ desire to remark thl" 
 their duties, their ardor must have b/en conside?.^^^^^^ the performance of 
 
 ;vh.ch were issued some time ago byXT^S^L't ^I^I^^XS'ISV^Z 
 
 ..r. . u- , "Ottawa, Jan. i6, iFR, 
 
 uT.i. .. . ^^'^'' ^'"'^yson, steamer iV^^r//«r« Z/W// 
 
 '«r»n. I.- . "OnAWA,Jan. i8, 1883. 
 
 u With ir , A tinlayson, steamer A^o/-/^,/-;, zi^/u 
 
 Incur no undue'rist'' '''"' ^°" "^^' ^^ J"^^^' -d held responsible for safety of boat. 
 
 "Wm. Smith." 
 "OriAWA, Jan 12, 1884. 
 
 "Sir,— "Wm. Smith 
 
 " Referring to my letter of lAth n-. u 00 " OriAWA, Jan 12, 188 
 
 g my letter of X4th December, 1882, I have again to instruct you to 
 
 use 
 
L67 3 
 
 Engineers 
 id in Great 
 Jway across 
 L»e effected, 
 uid not be 
 it summer, 
 idapted for 
 Kaminatioij 
 
 ind by the 
 ount of its 
 Mainland, 
 d, as they 
 ■e than is 
 i is being 
 enue one- 
 ie by the 
 Phe same 
 lining, up 
 although 
 
 ottetown 
 nceasing 
 nnot be 
 rtain the 
 ire con- 
 to main- 
 rk that, 
 lance of 
 ructions 
 are as 
 
 i?^3. 
 
 th you. 
 
 ,AN.'' 
 
 ctions, 
 883. 
 
 f boat. 
 
 •H." 
 184. 
 louse 
 
 your own judgment as to whether the Nor//,e,n L,\^ht should mn, and you are to incur no 
 r.sk whereby the safety of the vessel may be endangered by btmg cauKht in he i e No 
 risk also ,s to be .ncurred fur the purpose of carrying over any particular pa^enger 0° 
 passengers and the Department expects that you will use your judgment in almauers 
 affectmg the runnu.g of the boat, and will hold you responsible for her safe y 
 " Capt. A. Finlayson, .... „ 
 
 ** A^^/-///m/ Lxght. Deputy Minister of Marine." 
 
 and.Wr'Jh'!''ffi^"''^'."w""A/^'/ '^'^'^ i-.Htruc.ions were quite suffi.ient to discourage 
 and deter the officers of the Northern fj^hl from mikin.; tho e strcnu.>.n efforts to eff-ct 
 a crossmg which otherwise they might have been disponed to do. 
 
 the ^Jn^rlp^r. ^^'"'V^'''"/ '^"'!"*'' '^''' ^"'' '^"^ '"'"^ '''8'^^'J "P"" subsequently, with 
 he various Provinces Canada undertook to effect the following threat publir -vorks with 
 
 whirh^h^nt '^""'^'""^'^^ '""^ '""'^•' "^ --""^^-^-al relaiion^hip, th^ p. .• c I unio 
 wa the 1 ^'^'^".^"'"^^^ '"'r' ''' '■ V' ^''^"^^'^" '^-^^'''^'^ Railway.\he In.e.colcninI Rail- 
 
 UWnnM'•^'''''^'''^''u'"'"^J'l^'^" ''''^' ^^'"=»'^' ^"J Communication bv Stean, 
 ^\ inter and i^ummer, wuh Prince Edward Island. The first three of these undeitakinK 
 
 EJwa^'rsland ir """ ''':■ ^^d-' ->"— - a"d suppo.t of the people of S^ 
 mred h. h '""u " ^^""' $43,000,000, a i.mch lar.^er amount than was anfTci- 
 
 oa ' morJrhTn" '^'T "" '^"^ i"»^^'='>'-"^' Railway, and alth.u.uh that road has not y.t 
 pair, more than working expenses the Gener.xl (i .ver.m.ent have s.anted large subsides 
 
 Objecting to the faith of the country oein;/ uuintained inviolate, and to libera exnendi- 
 
 ure .e..,g made for ne.:essary public works and have cheerfully borne their ha^e of the 
 
 burdens, buc they do cou.plam that the cou.muni. ation guaranteed them by the Tern s f 
 
 Siv smJif ""' ■' '^i'^T'^u'^' =*'"^""«'' '""^ expenditure necessary to .lo so would b' 
 very small co.npared wuh the enormous outlay incurred on the other public works to 
 which the undersigned have referred. ' 
 
 'IVnnJ!lI-''^1'"V".'^^ '"'.'''" H' 'i""M'ensatlon by reason of the non fulfilment of the 
 lern s of ^onledcrat.on, the undersigned submit that a leview of the tacts adduced\v?ll 
 
 Sriit^ 'sho.7. •?' h'''^ ''^''r' ''^^ '''^''''' ^''^' '"^^' andiuherefureen.medt> n 
 ^rj?"7; }'^ /""''" ''"'^'^"^^ •'" '''"* P^''"' ^-^ '"^eded, the un<lcrsi.ned will |"e 
 
 p eased to supply the sau.e, as well a. ,0 furnish any other intormuion thl'^t may be e 
 quired by your Lordship ... order to a full consideration of the whole case. 
 
 We have the honor to be. 
 
 Your L'.rdship's most obedient humble Servant", 
 
 Thk Right Honorai![,e Earl (iranvim.e, K. G. 
 Secretary of State for the Colonies 
 
 W. W. SULLIVAN 
 I). FERGUSON. 
 
 C01.0NIAI, Okkice, 
 Gentlemen,- Downing Street, oth March. ,886, 
 
 in ^,n^^T,5"■''T'^,^y Earl Granville to .acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the ist 
 
 PrfnceFJwL iV V^^^^^^ establishment of Steam Communication between 
 
 Frtnce l!.dward Island and the mainland. "^i»»ccu 
 
 9 
 
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 Tapper to attend for the pu;poL^^^^^ ''as invited Sir Charles 
 
 VV. \V. Sullivan, Esc 
 D. Ferguson, Esq. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 formally discussing the matter referred to in your 
 I am, Gentlemen, 
 
 Vour obedient Servant, 
 
 Robert G. W. Herbert. 
 
 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 
 
 ^emw™ A, SirCMe. Tapper on the Observations subn^itt^d by fbe 
 
 Cannda respecting ,he Me„,o,ia ,o Her Ees" on .he'T"", "' , '^ '''''''' '-'°™'' °f 
 belween the island and ,l,e mainland? co,nS,ce" l^v T^^^Lt !'«, ^""""■'i'^^ion 
 memorial in queslion, ""inc-es dj a general justification of the 
 
 ^^^l\^.T^^:^J^:^^ It U rr' t '^'"""1"^ '' 'h^ ^-T Council-Messrs 
 
 the straits of NortCLriand o had S^ t"-^^^^^^ " "'" '^' "^^ 
 
 could have supposed it possibi; to cons? ua " st^ l^^^^^^^^^ obstruction in mid-winter, 
 
 at us heaviest in that season. " They do not hmrtr ' """'""^ "''^"" ^'^^ '^^ *« 
 
 deny it, but content themselves by iema kTn^ 2T tt'o^?'"'"; "'*^" ^'^'^ ^^^^^'"^"^ «^ 
 
 munication, summer and winter w?s en rtlv n^J . ^^^'-'' '^'^ ™"tmuous steam com- 
 
 and they submit that it should be SS out te7 ""' °" '^' ^'''' ^^ ^^e Dominion, 
 
 to do so, but merely repeat the la ~^^^^ f" "°* ^T'"^"^ ^"^'-^^ '^ '« practicable 
 
 disposition has bien^ho^vn b^the ^omiln r^^ '"^ "'' ^'^^^'>' ^'"^ ""« ^^^'^ient 
 
 towards the Island in this matte, " Then thev state fr^r'."'"' ^"u^""^' ^'^^'^ obligations 
 
 .n i874and 1/75, the "Albert '= The unsul abiU^^^ ""^P'^^'^d 
 
 service in 1876, is also commented unon and iil /. ^^ Northern Light, " put on the 
 
 designed lor the service." The reX"' of Mes / M t ?'' '^.' '''' ""^ ^P^^^i^")" 
 
 clear answer to the allegations so farTemioneS^X thetfnbr'.h'^'^P'^" ^'^^^ ^ 
 fairly, that prior to Confederation there was a rem hr«l J ^H*' ^''^>' P°'"^ out, very 
 that for five months or more, duHnTtre la S n' f ^VTu "^ '^' 'V"""^^ ^^''»^°"' but 
 early spring, there was no ste^m service it al the mnilf ''^^ ''*"^"'""' /h^ winter and the 
 ing carried by ice-boats from (S,L Tr 've se to Cn ^T^ presumably passengers-be- 
 A..herst, the larKl carriage being'^s^ SeTand^^rd srcTrV^" ,^1^^^^^^^^^^^^ ''^^^' ^ 
 inio appears to demonsliate very cieariv that the IdnnH V-l \"^^ ""^P^' 9 ^'les. 
 
 .mucus steam service » prac.icabie duri„V?hl '"^tr "^XX^tlf .r/^Uon^^s 
 
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 nvenience to 
 
 Sir Charles 
 
 rd to in your 
 
 HtRHtRT. 
 
 d by the 
 Paoer of 
 
 )elegates — 
 Council of 
 nunication 
 on of the 
 
 I — Messrs. 
 
 had seen 
 lid-winter, 
 
 the ice is 
 ement, or 
 earn coni- 
 )ominion, 
 racticable 
 
 sufficient 
 bhgations 
 emplojed 
 ut on the 
 
 specially 
 gives a 
 
 out, very 
 3son, but 
 
 and the 
 ;ers — be- 
 sleigh to 
 
 9 miles. 
 
 id 
 
 con- 
 
 iiption is 
 
 t?H,ffiVh u u ': ""'f "^ "u^'.^T ^^"f'^deration. But they appear to imagine that all 
 wh.n ?h T , ". - '^ ^h^^V had heen insurmountable, should have entirely vanishe 
 «hen the Island jomed the Domm.on. In the circumstances the phrase "continuou 
 
 I n?; '.■" k7 >r^^\l'"^I''''^. ^'T'^y ^r"" ^'''^ ''''^'''^ «'^h the iuahfication "a fa 
 fn 1 . ' ,,,-^"d the obligations have been carried out by the Dominion Covernmen 
 
 n this spirit. Ihe iniix,ssibility of continuous steam communication in mid-winter has 
 been fully demonstrated, as pointed out by Messrs. Mcl.elan and Campbell, but the efforts of 
 the Dominion have been so far successful as to reduce the period of interruption to an 
 Z7Z ?1 """i^'\t "^ -hat It was pr^ious to the Union. M Jssrs. Sullivan and Kergi^on 
 sa> that the "Nor hern Light " is not suitable for the .service, and was not speciillv dc 
 signed for the work. They apparently forget that in the joint address to the Cove nor- 
 Ceneral from the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in ,88,, this same vessel,^ 
 spoken of as having been "constructed expressly for the work and placed upon the rou'e ' ' 
 although complaint was made of the irregular and unsatisfactory trips she made. Upon 
 his point Messrs. McLelan and Campbell say : -"The Dominion Covernment afte'i a 
 most careful and anxious inquiry, contracted with a Mr. Se,^ell of Quebec, to complete a 
 powerful steamer on a model specially designed for ice service. In December ,876 his 
 steamer, named the "Northern Light " was completed and placed upon the rome be'Veen 
 Pictou and Charlottetown, and has been maintained each winter ti date at an a™ate 
 cost, including construction, of $249,956.57. " "fegict,aie 
 
 No representation appears to have been made in the matter to the Dominion CnvPm 
 ment umil ,88,, although the "Northern Light" wasputon in .876. VS ^1'^ 
 
 I'TZT'" '^"^ r'^'f." '-^"''"^ '^' '''''^ *^ unavailable during the winter a o Says 
 OM^ «T '" "% ^^'-^J^^^) 64 days is given and the Parliamentary Committee^ at 
 
 Ot awa in ,883 gave 48 days as the average. The latter also said in their eport that "tie 
 daily records kept by the captain of the " Northern Light " and the testimony given by e 
 officers snow that the heavy ice encountered was the cause that compelled him to discon- 
 
 TZnTl '". 'r ^"T'"'' = " ''^"'^.' ^^'^"^^'^' '^'' " ^"^^ ^'^'dence of the officers Jxlh^d ?s 
 also to the effect hat the steamer is not sufficient to overcome the difficulties of the winter 
 navigation and although tney suggest slight improvements on her model, which would bit 
 ter fit her for the purposes for w-hich she was intended, still are unanimously of opin on that 
 no steamship can be bu.lt capable of keeping up continuous communication in n"d vvi ite 
 between the island and the mainland."' They add, "we examined personally seve a 
 gentlemen of large ijractical experience in crossing from the island in winter season t^l of 
 whom confirm the above, and whose evidence is hereto appended. » This Con^'it^^.'e con 
 sisted of three representatives from Prince Edward Island, and two from ^1 ainland 
 and surely their opinions are worthy of credence, and justify the contention of the DoS 
 
 TTnr';"'"H"M "n ■'''" "IT"'' ^''' ^'''' ^""^'^" ^«">' ""^ 'he terms under which he 
 Island entered the Union. Messrs. McLelan and Campbell in their report also say "If 
 
 iCininn V " ^•^'"•"""■^•^t.on has not been maintained, it is certainly not becaus; the 
 Dominion Covernment sought to avoid expense. The " Northern Ligh't " is as laryt and 
 
 kemon nn ' '''■'"'"■ "' ^-^P^r""." *" :^''"'*" exploration has proved advisable, and^he is 
 kept on full expense, equipped and read) to run at all times during the entire winter and 
 were it possible to do so, no additional expense would be incurred, except for fud Whilst 
 he cost of the ice-boat service would be saved, and the r,,nstruction of .Ji!..,^ '/"^'V, '^ 
 boa^-ho-ises to and at Capes Traverse and Tormentine, rendered "unnecessary "'The 
 Covernment have it may be added, spent, or are committed to spend, about $oV, 608 in 
 connection with the communication between Prince Edward Is and and' the maintnd 
 
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 m 
 
 or'^SXttlilJ^.K^^lS-J^S-^^ -- - -Her n..... .o.e 
 
 .n^r^aic'In^X'r^S:;;,;:;',:::::^^ ^rSIr A.exand. Ca.pbe., 
 
 ment the " Northern I,ightt " dn nJ the ^nt! r u^ . ''g'^^house steamers to supple- 
 promised. Considering the na oleJ of h ^. . ''' ''^'■'''""'>' '*=''"'^ '» have been 
 steamer woiild be of mthadvrnt^M-t in nm ™':, '' 'f''^"''''''^ ^""H^*""' '^ ' ^^^^nd 
 the papers m the possessio;onh"ttiJ^'[^,:::;i:SierrOnX""" ""'''' '""^^^ '" 
 
 Tra^^tSl;e:nS^n.U;;S^:;:;;rSe;i':^""r'^^^ '''' ^ "''->• ^^ ^^i- 
 •some alterations ; also that he niwr , r , ' ' ""^''- '*'■'">' ^'^'''^ ''^^' ^^'''' ''^qtiires 
 of a large subsid; from the I )1 nion ;ot-rnn e^ b-.ng made with the aid 
 
 aoubUhedel^isowingtothetrS/ml-ngX:^^^^^^ 
 
 cwp'l:i;;Tha't"rrHi:.';.i &rme^rt;e ti^rr" r ^n ^^^^«'«" -<* 
 
 «ndplar.Hof the Dominion GoveiTment and ai « k 'yT""' ""^^ the whple action 
 of lK,at.houHeH, in which ^omeZTy'oT.iZ tT^^^^^^^ 
 
 finished last year, and the criticism m An. :»r.L:u .? ^"^ ^^^'*^'' ^^'O' however, 
 rather captiou., esVciaily an notS iTna d ?n /hi "■''^'■'' ''"'"" J" ''^'^ ^'^^ to be 
 and pier^it Cape'^Travt^rse, and th^e aUwav to Lurtt^"'"^'"^ '^^ ••«'''^«y 
 
 which the Government have wannv lake .UD ITnf ih' T'" "' ^".P^ Tormentitie 
 Island Government were iully iolbirned ^' '"'*' '^ '""'^ ^« pie^umed the 
 
 ment'hJv7l:laV"tgt?Jn;e'"!^ ^'^"1 " •»>« l>ominion Govern- 
 
 lor the trannpoVt or,n. '^^^^^^^^^^ Xn^rmnerd?' '" "'"^ "">' P''^^'''*'^^ 
 explanation o this rnav be ,Z.ri .m .P ^ to resort to the CapcH route." In 
 received from M.-. McLdan .he^ae Min 1;;^''?^^'''" " hl"^' '^^' ^^^ '^'^^'^^ly bee 
 Northern Liykt made regular tiTps 7biH «eaH n ^n'.il'^rii r^T"'*^" ''' ^"""^"- " Tho 
 la^t week. 1 took (as Mmisler orMi^,'rneTnTl.S ^X ^l"' '^""""'•^'' ''' «««"« ti-^e 
 CapeM, and them in now a Xd ou.«niI.f '^h >, .en), charge of the crossing at the 
 by that route. . ,.d I ?X."efbe' 3 it wL? tZ ^1T'''\u ^\' '^^'-^Hte/cros.ed 
 brought over^-that i, they had^on al^l X^u^to^- .Vj^ Jo^t ThX XaP^ '^^" 
 
 1^83^;;- ^f^" the^^it^^tillcirSSS^^^ Committee of 
 
 Sullivan and FergUM>^^;^v •• ThT nl. ^"TT""""""" '" "lid-wintei-.'' Mes^.-T 
 Parliamentary Committ?/and tvelai S u r "'' '''^"''"^^ the report of the said 
 conclusion." This may b; Tier^ "o,^^^^^ 'hat they came to this 
 
 quoted below of the Committee sho'L" I , t Mess.s M?./!""' 7'^"'K of the report 
 loundation lor making the statement •' Thf nv^nl f ?. ""'t Campbell had ev-ery 
 to the effect that the Meamer s Tot ufRciont .o . "' '^ \'*"^'«'« ^^^tnined is also 
 navigation, and although Ihey «UKLo„t^uLhHmn mv^^^^ 'lifficulties of the winter 
 
 boHer fit ber for the Jurpo^^stX' which sh^Lr '^^"1' T H\ '"^«^' ^bich would 
 op.n.on that no steams^hi; can be ^'^X^ ^X^^^^::^^^ 
 
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 liters, some 
 
 tion in mid-winter between the iHlund and the Mainland " " We ftxnminp.i ..^■. ii 
 
 oontroverHV whh nta.ted in the memo'K HerMat t h^v d" '^""T^}' ^^at the 
 
 Dominion Government cannot be blanied^^ ^*"' """"*^ pnnciple the 
 
 Messrs. Sullivan and FeigUBon dispuJo altogether the accuracy nf th^ «. .. • 
 o the revenue of the Dominion contributed by the IsLd al hL/ik i T r*"*"' 
 McLelan and Campbell, but before going into de a.Is thev relT^L ^"^ • ^^ ^^''''^ 
 calculations inlero».t hhould be allowed on Sl'^^Snt hi r..?^^^^^^ in any nuch 
 
 Fishery Awai-d claimed by the S ihi.h , h;T' P'??^''*'*"" ^'^ the Halifax 
 «50,00(Ji. It must bo remembei^d n Jh; Hrst nlai^thT.h''""'^?'"""'*''^' "'"°""^ ^o 
 
 derived from the measures taken bv the E.n In* • ^^ '?■ ^^«>'«"e'a' benefit 
 and h.s participated in the pay^Ll^Jf'' wleTt^ «^;:nnr'^5^;„' L' nf^^'^' 
 
 inshoie fisheries diltering iVo^ t33l bT ^«i!H? i^ ^ '''^"'''^ '" ^^e 
 
 United States ti^he.mu.i ba.o the inTho.ether^^^^^^^^^ tie unZVJ'? "."'^^^ '^' 
 
 •942,096 in B.i.i.h Colnmbia, and ,891^83 ^^^:n ur^TrT heNfAh Wet't"" K "" 
 Sullivan and Ferguson bat-e their obieefions tn fh« L.! *u •. ^esnrs. 
 
 Island's imports, upon which the revIueT cole ted fome Z^" ^'T^ ''''' '^' 
 Canada, and that since Confederation a very hrer>ort^; T.h '^^ 7 , «°"°*"«« oit.ide 
 from the maritime provinces and QuebVc'^dZtS^ ^"avrnV aS^^^ T" 
 
 ' -.-''--," •-'^ n)potneticaI eslnnatcs of the actua imports and of thn th.^i ..> ' 
 
 a™;e ■•;ir;fT6'r:4tn;'"'rt:: .nl^:"h~^- *'-v"^ ^^^- - 
 
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 ^^ S' S: U^"'!^! rl ''? ''"''■"^^' r ''""^^ -*^ —^^^ ^r by stating 
 with tU se tied pi tin o th« DomTn! ' T''"'"'^ "^' '^7V "''''"' ^^ communication 
 
 r edited to th.t nmvi,! ',u'"''^ '" ""'*'^ '""•""^'^'•''' ^"'^ '^^ •'""«"nts rolleVtene 
 
 the Nol'lesrteE."T- Thhdo'rnor"' ^'-'^k!!"^''"' ''"^^'^'^'^ '*' MnnitoLa a^d 
 ous ste-im servi ^" if "''■\^"^^ not seem to bear u|mn the (|uesti(.n of "rontin.i- 
 
 ZJ^^Xnd and ;Cm^il;7Ss'b '"" ""'" stated, that 'the conmnmic^;";. 
 1 .<■ /^- r , •'"" '"*- luamlaiid has boen more reiru ar m w nff r <iin«M iK^,, .u 
 
 connection of .ho i.„and wi.h^hrConfedeS aKe ^n,,, S 'ser^li^^'U','',^ 
 
 and S^^^^';:;;^i^r j:;;:^!!-: ;,f:r ;^'SaK ';^^«»^^ "^'•^'- 
 
 si«c,fied ,s *089,9S4, but they contend that $79,308 should be ded".,'d t'' ' ■ 1''^" 
 admtt, however, ,s $6,0,646 and the difference reLes ,„c"«rov^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 ,,revi!;Srthf ilt^^d^S" SaZ?^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 S„::^;^t"he'Li:^r;"Jd" d^tTr'th'STh ¥^" r ^*-'°™°"™ 
 
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 supposed it possible l^coast uc a^L."Lr an^^ '" "r^-^'"'<-'^ -""'d have 
 
 and maintain", he nK-anT vhkh""tn«Tm f-Llri „.^^^ '.ovcrnmen, „„„ld |„„vide 
 
 .he range „r „„»ihi,i., ■ Ljt^t:';^!::^ ^^:'^ csioSsr •' "•"-" 
 
 Objection is also taken to the remark of the Committee of ( "ounril "thnf th i. 
 Irom sailing ves.sels to steamers, for summer, aniK-irs to hat!, lu f-nT ' "'^' '^^'"'«^" 
 
 effected by the Island (iovernnient in thir .,..,? have been the only improvement 
 having control of a larger 'revenue tnnS '" ilfty years, although 
 
 first part is not denied^ by Mes.irSurarmi I.{^r: Irhun'h '^'" '^'^"""'-"•" 'i'he 
 again disputed. Thev go on to say thu the rmn ^ nf / •■""'■"■"'"' ''"^'^''"" '•* 
 
 of the principal inducements that id tt ishnT e , r tr '^^ steani service was one 
 and Campbell's report gives tt im ,ress ^ thnt tl ^^ ' T Messrs. McLelan 
 
 although Ihe Island (iovernment 3nm Int nuS Sr rT"^'^''^ '"^'^ '^'' 
 
 average nun.ber of p.«.sn!j.er« in'each cros.sint o^trl X ^ /! /^^^^ *^' 
 nine (tbe averajre of the present season so far is Mt>h^.wL^^l '"'""^ ""'^ 
 that the loss on the Lshuid Kail way since its onc^n.r Ji I'Ti^r? ' , TV' ' ^ 
 an expenchtut-e there<,n on capituf account of l^rt'^^i;^,^ Me';^ SuUht 
 and *eKU..on,ni reply, gix.. in tanoes of 100 pa.ssenuer.s^ W at on -^ ^ 
 
 Dotninion Gove/nment, and clmlot U flowed to Us SuttT T"-^'- ^ 
 as the statement is hut a general one and un^tt l«tr^tkte;i "^ ^ "'""'' ''P'""">^ 
 
 Exception is also nude to the remark of the Committee of ( 'ouncil "th«f ih 
 Do nunon Government did not undartake the carrvin<. of ^^3';! l, 
 or freight ot any kind, although thev have at all tim^ attbXl f iTl / T'^^T 
 transport of any <.ttering." Lss.s: Sullivan 'ul JWus^ t' • Th^ ^r^^ 
 afiorded may be judged of when it is explained that t K^Ut^caDad v^ I'J''' 
 Norfhem Light is not more than two hundred barrels ' f , ml f^^^^'^y ^ ^^^ 
 that the phra,se "continuous steam service " ailS^ ^^^^^^ J '« remembered 
 
 and any provision for frei.rbt is therefor- a -i W- - P^'*'"?^^"^" *^"'^ '"^^'^^ «aly. 
 " '■ ticij^..u 1.", nieiLioiv a gam to uic province. 
 
 island that the population consumes goods the pnxluce of the mainlimd No 
 
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 sUite that of this %'i7\uU .., J' ^''^P»-'»ce h*lwai-.l Islaml <K.|,..Lmte.s 
 
 FuKu,,,,, object t,,, .u„l „tat„ that tl ' fiKurt ,to„l,l ^''Zms T^ '"'' 
 -." mea„s ..f cl,«,ki„g this i„ the oftio,. ot\he Hi^, l,;:,,,*;i'^ef '■ ""' '"'" 
 
 cr.,.t "bXT ?"";'■'"„'""? .f^rguson again return to the chai-^e of the revenn.. 
 • n-enea iiDeial tieatment from the Dominion, and repeat that it 
 
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 "continuous strain «orvict°" ^ ^'"" 'i""'^'*'" "*" t'"' ^"^''^-H^ility of 
 
 islan.l.an.l l-r unce,.i„ran: .1 d t^K,:" 't:'r\ '"''^ '"''"''i*'^" '^ "^ ^•- 
 i-f'wk upon 'i.s. ■ , ho ( \,n ,i ./ • • ' '"^ •••"'"•'"»• ' 'n,.. .|.l..at,..s 
 
 the ortin..l a.. I crew . / tl. N tl .-n X"1 """' " '^'""'•'"'" ^^"^ '''- ^'"^t 
 hol.l enthusi«.t^.:. an.l v. .u 1 lu v i ' 5^^' '"•"" '■^'"":' "'<'"' «'•" <-"ns,.,,uentlv 
 tain eon.mun;,...u.on v fj; fll^ ^ ;, J"'"'^^^^^^ i" the effo.t to main^ 
 
 complain that t). r.r..nin^. of tJ... si, uh^ lef/ 'T. r" "T- "V:'PI""--ntiy to 
 charge, an.l tl.at he u.us o,.,l..,v.l n . ni , .. ^'"••'•'^^•'•r ><•.' of the otfieer in 
 anri hazar.lous efforts have been 1 1 " '^".\ ""''"'• 'isks. Thnt uneeasin- 
 Edward Island to Her M::.U^^,St;::J^^^^^ -y the men.orial fnan Princ;; 
 has been ice-bound for peri..;is v -v .i. f . '^^ t""*^-^ «'i'' (' Northern Li^hf) 
 •"""i"«"t danger of pa s 'ni; I . \ , ^i "'' V"'"' '" ^'^-'ty-fo.n- days, to^he 
 son.e of the jmssenoers n.non ' 1 ,,. v '"'? "^V'm""*'''^'""- *'^'»' ^mrs atm. 
 
 remaining .>n 'board severa I -^ t . 'w^.T'^ ? "'''';•"'• "'^''^ *o'V-<l. afte 
 to the shore, when, ni.^ht over aic . l.,. H, •^'^^''^ '] •'''^•^'^'l^" ^'^' """^v miles 
 exposure which resulted ultin.ate ■ i tl n'. 1 aH '''f'"''' "TT ''"""' ^*'»''^ '^"•' 
 shows that .the officers aud crew 1- „ ! T T' ''^ i'"" '""'^y-" T'"« 
 
 communication, anri the necessity o-,Ii",,H "^fvdous ertbrts to keep up 
 
 It also proves the impossibiitv f nn •'''"'' *^''' '^""''^'^'"''•' ^^ '"''l'''" n«k^^^ 
 insists on. It nu^st be ren a k^ J^ '^^^'^"' -'-vi'"' ''^'^'^^ ^he island" 
 
 who gave evidence to the eZ^ ' t no s 'an hi;:*"'? 1 t "^"''^''''-^ ^'>''^" 
 up . cont nuous connnunication n n id w n e ' IT/ " ''"' ^-P«I''^ -^ k-'?inff 
 mauiland." mi'i wintei between the island and the 
 
 Messrs. Sullivan and fVro-uson P.,n,.i„ i u • • ■ , 
 regard to the claim for co.nrM' mfion bv^! T!u ''"J''""^'^'" ^y «'^y'n^. " With 
 
 of Confederation, the u.kI^K^ ':"p^i XIT^' '^"^ '-"-f^«l'nent of the term^ 
 conclusively ^l.ow that the "X.d « «• r''*"'^ ""^ the facts adduced will 
 entitled to'indenuntv." 1 the Hr olZ "^^""^'^ ^''''^ ^''''' '^"'^ ''^ therefore 
 Confederation have not Wn con, i , l 'tb '' '^'T'"'''^ ^1? ■'^*^>" '^'^^ ^''^ l'^'"'"'^ o? 
 brought forward as not hav ng b n c^t e ou '^^ of the •' terms - has been 
 
 contnnious steam service hasS.een , v le, t f ^'^"* ^'^^ ^"^" '^''^"^•^^J that 
 •steam con.nmnication is not f<.usibU t ) • . ' • T, ''•'' P'-'^^ticable. Daih- 
 
 petent witnesses, to construct a" ei;. hi tf ^ "^ t "'''"'"" "^" --'■ 
 
 of mterrupticm prio,- to c^.nfe.ierati . baJ l! ,.! "m ^'^"*''t">"'^- The period 
 
 ot suft^ring any injuiy the islalrJd t" s nJ ^T n^' ' ' ' 'T1''""''^' ""^ ^'^^-•' 
 and prosperity, which mav fairly be t ri^l.Sb '" T^ ^^''vances in wealth 
 position the islan.l occupies as . ,,,!,, l^.'-'i^t} %^^'^ ^'^' "'"'■^' '^'Ivanta^.eou.s 
 Dominion Government to^ aid inth tSonn^^ o^";^"' "" "" •^'^''^^-^'^ '^*" "»« 
 vastly unproved communication with thl^ mlS^ tl^LTer^^vS^^ "^^ 
 The foregoing remarks upon Messrs. Sullivan and Ferguson s letter are not 
 
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 so complete as thvy ii.inht l,e nia.le. owin- to tlie .short time that the undersime.l 
 na,s been m possession ot the views of those tfcutlemeii. 
 
 d, Victoria Chainliei-s, Lomlon, S. W., 
 Murcli litli, IJS.SG. 
 
 CHARLES TUPPER. 
 
 u VI ' [Coi'Y.] 
 
 JJEAU MR. hvuA VAX :— (JOLoNiAL Offkie, ISth March, 188(5. 
 
 ^I have Just i-eeoived three copies of the euclosc-d rneiiKJi-andum from the 
 
 printer, ami 1 send you two of them. 
 
 Youis very truly. 
 
 ROBERT G.W. HERBERT. 
 
 London, 
 ^^^ y^^^' ' March 22nd, 1886. 
 
 The undersijrned have perused tlie memoraiKiuui submitted bv Sir Cliarles 
 1 upper. High (..mmissKmer for(;ami(hi, in reply to the letter which they had 
 the honor ot addressing to your Lordship on the 1st March instant; and they 
 desire to otter a tew observations thereon. 
 
 They entirely agree with the High (Commissioner that it would have been 
 tar Letter had the special .jucstion at issue been dealt with upon its merits; but 
 they are unable to concur with him in saying that for "the departure from this 
 sound principle the Dominion Government cannot be blamed." The Hicrh Com- 
 nns.sioner endeavors to justify the Dominion Government bv stating that the 
 irrelevant controversy was started in the memorial to Her Majesty, by drawin<r 
 attention to the treatment receivcl by British Columbia in the rapid construction 
 ot the (anadiau Pacihc Railway, although the population of white people in that 
 Province was comparatively small. That reference was answered by tlie Com- 
 mittee ot the Privy Council of (Canada in the following words: "In a strictly 
 local view it is not unjust to say that expenditure shall in some measure be 
 governed by receipts, present or prospective," and this statement was followed by 
 an elaborate calculation purpoi'ting to show the contributions of British Columbia 
 and 1 mice Edward Island respectively to the General Treasury. 
 
 The undersigne.l, altlu^ugh well aware of the irrelevancy of the matter and 
 ot the impropin j ot the principle laid d,)wn by Messrs. McLelan and Campbell 
 that communication with Prince Edwar.l Island should be considered as a local 
 work, av(l that oxpeiiditure thereon should to any extent be governed by receipts, 
 present <.r pros^.ective, telt it to be their duty to remonstrate that the Dominion 
 Government ,uy laboring under a grave, and for Prince Edward Island, a mast 
 untortunnte misai)prr .-nsion, in regard to the revenue received from the Pro- 
 vmce«,nd living done so, it is not necessary to make further allusion to that 
 branch ot the subject. 
 
 With respect to the Halifax Fishery Award, the High Commissioner seems 
 
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 to be under the impression that the undersigned are not aware that prior to th(> 
 Island's joining the Confederation it had made arrangements with the United 
 States in regard to the inshore fisheries, difteruig from those made bv Canada 
 The undersigned are not without knowledge of the anTrcment then "made Imt 
 their recollection of it differs somewhat from that of' tiic High Commissioner. 
 The understanding then arrived at was come to bv I'riiu'c ETiward Island in 
 compliance with the urgent request of Her Majcstv's Imp(>)-ial ( Jovcnim.'nt in 
 anticipation of the Treaty of Washington's taking elfeet, and t'sprciallv in oiil.-r 
 to avoid complications between CJreaL Britain and' the United States. 'That the 
 arrangement did not cover the period refenvd to was owing to tin' fact thfvt the 
 Dominion of ( Wiada failed to take such action as was iiecessarv to .-ive it effect 
 The refund about £5,000, to which in this connection the Hioli ('\)mmissi()ner 
 refers, was pa.d, not to Prince Edward Island, as is stated, b'ut to individual 
 (>ana(han merchants and fishern, n. The grievance of Piince Edwaid Island 
 regarding the distribution of the amount of the Halifax Fisherv Award has not 
 however, any connection with the question of interprovincial co'mmunieation, and' 
 the reference to it by the undersigned was onlv made as app.'rtainin.'' to the 
 discussion of comparative contiibutiims, raisi'd by the J)aminion tJovmmient 
 The undersigned shall, therefore, make no further allusion to it now, except to 
 say that they do not agree with the High Commissionei- that the position ul' the 
 Island 111 the matter is precisely the same as that of Nova Sct)tia and New 
 Brunswick. 
 
 Under the terms of Confederation, the Dominion (iovernment un.lertook to 
 provi(le "efficient steam servic(! for the conveyance of mails ami passcMigers, to be 
 estabHshed and maintained between the Islaiid and the mainland of the j)oirn"n 
 ion, winter ami summer, thus placing the Island in continuous communication 
 with the Intercolonial Railway and the railway system of the Dominion." 'I'he 
 question is, have the Dominion Uovernment performed this obligations Thev 
 are forced to admit that they have failed. But the High Commi 'sioner answers 
 that a "regular daily steam service; is an impossibility," 'and that ' proof has been 
 adduced that continuous steam service has been ])iovided as far as was ])racti- 
 cable." The report of the Parliamentary Committee of iSN.Tis referred to as 
 justifying these statements; but the un<lersigned feel imp.'lled to remark that 
 a perusal of that report has led them to a -lifterent conclusion. Jt is said that 
 the Island Govei-nment, prior to Confe«leratioii, had accomplished no more than 
 the Dominion Government have done siilce that time, but it is apparentiv for- 
 gotten that one of the chief inducements to enter the union was to secure continu- 
 ous steam service. The High (\>mmis.si(mer states that no representation was 
 made in this matter to the Dominion (Government till 1881, althou.di the steamer 
 named the Novtheni LhjJd was put on in 1870. That the pe(7ple of Prince 
 Edward Island endure«l this gricn-anc*; without formal remonstrance from their 
 Government, not only fnan 187G to 1881, but from 187.'] to 1881, is a proof that 
 they have acted reas.mably in giving the Dominion (iovcirnment am})!e tiiiie to 
 carry out their undertaking, and should not now be used as an argument against 
 their claim The High (Commissioner takes exception to the statement that the 
 Northern Lujht wa.s not specially "designed" for the service, and refers to the 
 
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 t?a1X*%*x^' ^r''"'''.P?''^' ^.^°P*''^ ^y^^' Legislature of Prince Edward 
 
 ™X for tiJw^^^^ " """'^'.'^^ *" ^^^'^"^ ^--^ "constructed 
 
 exp essi;^ to the work Both these expressions are correct. The NortherTi 
 
 fyightwa, "designed' for a totally different service-namely, for navicmting fixed 
 
 and compara ively thin ice on the River St. Lawrence-an.l after havWb^een so 
 
 designed, she wa,s purchased by the Dominion (iovern.nent and CstiMacted" 
 
 tor the service she has been attempting to perform. This is confirmed bvMessrs 
 
 McLelan and Campbell, for they say. ''The' Domini<.n Covennnent t a most 
 
 careful and anxious nu,uiry. contracted with a Mr. 8ewell, of Quebec to complete 
 
 a powertu steaiuer on a model specially designed for ice .serXe." Tie' do not 
 
 say nor does the High Commissioner, that she was specially de.signed' for the 
 
 The High Commissioner seems to labor under the impression that he has 
 (hscoVered a discrepancy n the .tateinents in regard to tl J aNerage period tl^ 
 Nothern Lujhl is unavailable during the winter, as in the communk^at on of t e 
 undersigned 3t is given as seventy days, in the Addre.ss to Her Majestvin I880 s xtv- 
 tour days^ and in the Report of the Parliamentarv Committee In 18«.*J forty eLht 
 days. These statements, we have every reason to' believe, are all come for the 
 periods to w nch they apply. The average time, when the Parlianienta.T Com! 
 mittee reported in 1883, was forty-eight .Ikys. which increased iiriS8rt7'.bctv- 
 four lays, and in 1886 to seventy days. It is here worthy <>i' >-em»rk tha the 
 steam service ins ead of improving is. year after year, becoining les, efficS and 
 continuous. Last winter the vessel was laid up ninety days. 
 
 With reterence to the failure of the Dominion Government to make any 
 provision tor the conveyance of passengers, the High Conmiissioner explains by 
 quoting from a letter of the late Minister (,f Marine, Mr. McLelan, that the 
 flT ?!u ? made regular trips this season until 27th January. Mr. McLelan 
 states: " the de egates cros.sed by that route, and I believe th. v .said it was he 
 first time that they had ever been brought over-that is, they had, on all previous 
 occasions, to work their passage." In the opinion of the undersigne.l th s is the 
 
 t^n^LTu'lT'V' ^-^ n ''" ""'-^"'^"^ '''^' ""'^ suflicient^dLsposition ha 
 been shown by the I .minion G.^vernment to fulfil their obligations towards the 
 Island in this niatter. Your Lordship will probably learn wfth surprS^ that "or 
 thirteen y^xi-s the Government of Canada, notwithstanding their obligation to 
 provide efficien steam communication for mails and passengers winter and 
 unmer, have allowed such a state of things to exist, and that a merit is m w 
 be ng made out of the circumstance that once, and that le,ss than two months 
 ago, in those thirteen years, even the official representatives of the Island Gov- 
 ernment were relieved of the labor of "working their pa.ssage." This favor will 
 be still better appreciated when it is known that the\ieleiates were only c^ - 
 veyed after a persistent renumstrance on their part against working their pas- 
 Swinf the boats'' ^''''''^^''^' ""!"l^-'"'%^ ^'^^"t a dozen, were obliged to assist in 
 
 It is sai.l to be the contention of the Domini<in Government that the utmost 
 
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 I^? * r"" i*"! TT °^,*^ ^\^r *^';'"' ""'^^'' ^^^^^^ <^Ji^ I^J^n^l ^nt^»-**fl the Union 
 that the efforts made by tlie Northern Light prove tlie iinposil.ilitv of providing 
 continuous steam service, and the report of the Parliamentary Con.n.ittee i" 
 appealed to m venhcation of this contention. In that report it is reoonunended 
 that the Government adopt Capes Traverse an<l Torn»entine as the points of 
 communication tor mads and passengers, an. 1 the Committee also ma.le several 
 other recoinmendations which have not been acted upon bv the Dominion Gov- 
 ermnent although three years have elapsed since that tim..; Beyond the abo.tive 
 ettorts of the Northern Ltght no attempt has been made to provide steam service 
 At the narrowest place-between Capes Traverse and Tormentine- -steam in any 
 way, has never been applied, and no means of crossing have been used' except 
 the .ce-boat system, adopted about sixty years ago and continued, almost without 
 improvement to the present time. The Dr.minion Government, not havin..- trie.l 
 steam at the Capes, as recommended by the Parliamentary Committee, are in no 
 better position now to say that steam communication is impracticable than they 
 were at the time of Confederation. 
 
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 The undersigned therefore submit that the Dominion Government have 
 tailed to carry out the terms of Confederatic«i, and they are unable to agree with 
 the High Commissioner that it is not a failure because the default is at present 
 applied to only a part of those terms. When it is shown that the Dominion 
 Government have tailed in performing any portion of the conditions, it cannot 
 surely be inconsistent with the fact to assert that there is a failure in carryiiu' 
 out the term.s. '.*"'^ 
 
 If what the Dominion Government have agreed to perform is impracticable 
 by steam navigation, then it is clearly their duty to provide communieMf ion by 
 other means, and should they ultimately fail and thus demonstrate the impo.ssi- 
 bihty of their undertaking, then Prince Edward Island is unquestionably on 
 every principle ot justice, entitled to an in.lemnity, covering the failure of 'the 
 past and applying to the future, as the Province has performed its part of the 
 compact and Canada receives, at least, its full consideration. 
 
 The contention of the High Commissioner that the progress of Prince 
 Edward Island, referred to by the undersigned in their letter of bst inst "does 
 not indicate that much injury has resulted to the Island from the want of con- 
 tmuou.s steam service and clearly proves the benefit derived from the connection 
 ot the Island with the Confederation, and the improved service since 1.S73" i.s 
 the undersigned submit wholly unwarranted. It is notorious that the progre.ss 
 ot Prince Edward Island wa.s equally great during the thirteen years previous to 
 Confederation, when, the High Commissioner c<nitends, the means of communica- 
 tion were less efficient than they have been since. The undersigned are not now 
 called upon to express any opinion on the advantage or disadvantage of Confed- 
 eration to Prince Edward Island, .is that point is beside the question at issue. 
 
 The undersigned regret tl#t they have been obliged to extend these observa- 
 tions turther than they could desire, and they feel that after the len^rthened 
 
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 interviews witli wliich your Lordsliip has favored them, it is unnecessary to a.1,1 
 to the intormation now in the Colonial Office, althougli tiie suhiect i's hv no 
 means exhausted. j ^ jiu 
 
 Prince E<hvar(l Ishind appeals to the Imperial Government, at whos.- reouest 
 It entered the I ,nion, to mte.-pose th.nr inHu.mce with the Goverrnnent of Canada 
 in order that justice may he .{one in the i)nMnises, and that the harmony which' 
 IS so desirable hetwe-m the dirterent niemhers of the Confederation shalfprevail. 
 
 T» conclusion, the undersigned desire to express their sens,, of the deen 
 (>l.ligati..n they are under to your Lordship for the courtesy that has heen shown 
 thein, and for the readiness and attention with which al! their communications 
 Jiave heen received. ii^^iin 
 
 We liave the lionor to he, 
 
 Your LoivJship's most obedient humble S(!rvants, 
 
 W. W. STTLLIVAN. 
 
 The Ri,irht Honorable Earl Granville. K. G., , ^' ^'^^^'^^'^^N. 
 
 Seorcfdrij of Stdfc.for theColonicN. 
 
 143 G, 
 f'anada, No. 7;'). 
 
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 Earl GmnviUc to the Mdrqals of Lumdotvne. 
 
 Downing Street, 30th March, 188G. 
 My LoRD,--I duly received Your Lordship's despatch of the lOth of No 
 vemlmr last, enclosing an approved report of a Committee of the Privy Council 
 tor Canada, lorwardmg with oth.'r papers a joint address to the Queen from the 
 Legislative Council and House of Assembly of Prince Edward Island. This 
 a.hh-ess prays that Her Majesty will require that justice be .lone by the Govern- 
 ment ot Canada to Her Majesty's loyal subjects of that Province by theimme.liate 
 estabhshuKMit and "maintenance of efficient steam service, for thJ conveyance of 
 mails and passengers between this Island and the Mainland of the Dominion 
 
 • I :i:'"*i'V^"'^ «»'."'"^^" :T *"" *" l'^^*^ ^^'"^ ^'^''^n'l '■" continuous communication 
 with the Intei-colonial Railway, and the railway svstein of the Dominion" and 
 further that Her Majesty would be pleased to recjr.-ve that the (Government of 
 Canada should compensate the Island for the loss which, it is alleged, has resulted 
 to Its inhal)itants. by reason of the non-fulfilment of the terms cJf ( V)nfederation 
 in the particulars complained of in the adih-ess. 
 
 I also received your Despatch of flie 30th January, with a further report o*' 
 :!!!."V^t''*\!!i ?!'.*'. ^i'?Z Cmmcil, on the subject of the Delegation appointed to 
 
 a cot 
 
 support th(( prayer of the address. 
 
 rt th( 
 Since 
 
 the receipt of these papers, 1 have had the pleasure of 
 
 receiving Mr, 
 
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 the Provincial Government were «;\ ^^ ' ;"\^^^^^^^^ 
 
 ■ «„„, which thoy mi^ht aes,™ '> --'^X ^i , M pJ^: Je^ ri,' vit. sff Vh^vles 
 
 'on fc «h in.i, I ■•oedveafn.n, ''« delegates the ,t^^^^^^ 
 irtrClJ.=rZ^ "••■ic- '.^ copy . a..s„ 
 
 addi\ig personally and not ^'^V^^ ^:^'^ '^^^ ^ ^derate co,st the 
 
 ""^rrtlfrL earlier ^rt o. t.is -P-. ^^^ H. 
 Government is unable to t,vke th. M-stu>njji^o^^ --^^ 
 
 Government, and althoug^. \^^''^V;;fH^oZ)s.df^: - Itim, T We that 
 to the feasibility, at a moderate cos , ottcpx^^^^^^^^^^ - ^ ^^ ^^^1^^^ ^j^^ 
 
 it will be foun.t to adnut ot a ^^^'^^^^^ y, . f *^^^^^^^^^ , . a constant and 
 
 expectations of the Provn.ee in regan t. *,^^^.f ^^^f ^^^^^^^ but on th. 
 
 ethcient conauunicat on w, h the "'^ ' " \^«^.; ^Vt la made considerabi 
 other hand, the Domnuon ^'-^ernmen luts slum ^j ^^^J^!:^^^^^ difficulties 
 
 efforts to in.prove the conuuunication " ^he '^^^^ f ,^\ ,"^^^^ ^U^ther any 
 
 during the winter «^•'^«^•^ V- "'^ ''T'n,!r.h n caH e ^'^^^^^ maintained all 
 
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 that the deve bpnient of the tvtiiH" on fh,, i -./« V"""""*^"' «-«« / should suppose 
 
 I have, &c., 
 <^*^'^'^^^> GRANVILLE. 
 
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 No. 4471 
 
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 No. 2014. 
 
 Sir:— ^ 
 
 r. ,, , , Ottawa, 17th April, 1886. 
 
 Goviit e:pro?;Vsp^^^^^ "'*'---tion of your 
 
 th. Right HonomlX the Secre^^^^ ^^^'^'•""'' General iVom 
 
 havi„g^.eferenee t7tl e Jott A^fre^^ ^^'^"!? V'^- 1*^ «»^l««»^-««- 
 
 I^^ . a B.e,atio; f .t ^1?^^ ^^^ ^ Jf Ih^e ;S^^ 
 
 I have the honor to be, * 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Your Obedient SeiTant, 
 (Signed) 
 
 His Honor 
 
 Tho Lieutenant Governor of 
 
 Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown. 
 
 J. A. CHAPLEAU, 
 
 Secretary of State, 
 
 
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