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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mithode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 ^^SBS^a 1 ONTARIO AND PACIFIC JUNCTION RAILWAY (JOT, i?irc'<>iii»c>iiA.'rKi> iwri. |)rf.siDcnt : J. D. ICDGAR. Hartisten Toronto. iUcf-f rcsibfut : C. J. CAMPBELL, of Campbell & Cassells, Bankers, Toronto. A. P. COCKBURN. Member Honsc of Commons for Muskoka District, Toronto. H. H. COOK, Member House of Commons for North Sifncoe, 'Toronto. D. GALBRAITH, Menl/ant, of Galbraith, Briggs & Co., Toronto. JAMES HOLDEN, Managing Director Wliitby ami Port Perry Raikvay Company, Wliitby. n. S. HOWL AND, President of the Imperial Bank, Toronto. ROBERT JAiaq^AV, Merchant, Toronto. THOMAS KELSO. President Grand Junction Rail- way Company, Belleville. JOHN MOAT, of R. C'r ./. Moat, Bankers, Montreal WM. THOMSON, President Northern Raihvay Com- pany, Toronto. ALDERMAN TURNICR, of John Turner & Co., Merchants, Toronto. COL. A T. H. WILLIAMS, President Midland Manu- facturing Company, Port Hope. Cbiff (fcitaiitecr: CLARENCE W. MOIUIRLV. C. E., Toronto. PTARIO & PACIFIC JUNCTION RAILWAY. ► ♦ '<•►» ♦ _ . T-A-BLE OIF DISTAISrOES AIR LINK. MII.KS. GRAVENHUB8T t.. I.nke Nipissinj; ORAVENHUBST t. junction with Georgian Hay Bninch Cai.ada Pacific Railway (present' location) " A" ' GRAVENHURST • < junction with the Branch! to Parry .S( nmi "15" GRAVENHURST td Parr> Soiiml direct PARRY SOUND to French River Harbour "I)".| PARRY SOUND to [unction "C" with Maini liine of Canada Pacific Railway . '' PARRY SOUND to Juncti«m "H' with Main! Line of (). ^-t P. J. Railway I FRENCH RIVER HARBOUR "D" to Junction! with O. p. & J. Railway FRENCH RIVER HARBOUR "D" to junction "C with Main Line Canada Pacific Railway JUNCTION "C" to Junction " .\ " with U. t P. J. Railway «3i 24 43 56 4«i 31 63 Located LINK. MILKS. 100 75 27i 49 i 64i 48 36 72i 59 I3i **. '^m ^^iWip^l— WWBJWWiPiWI ONTARIO iV PACirK .IIMTION ItAILWAV. Lkiii;k I k()\i 1'ki:mi)|,.\ T 'I'okoN i(, i;, ,Aki, .,| TkADi; TO PkKSII.iAT ()\ I \Ki(, AM, }'\(|||( JlN(T|,,.\ Raiiwan. i"<»k().\ It., ir.th DiLrnilnr. iN;;. M\ Dl'.Ak Sik, I desire lo call to y..ui rrcolKctioii the actii)!! taken at a meetin- of the Toioiit.) J^oan! of Trade ivo-artlin^r the extension of the railua\- system of Ontario to Lake \i])issin:4-. as embodied in the ff.jj resolutions : — OWIIlJi^ "At a (ieneral Meetin- < .f the Toronto lioard of I rade. held on jul\ :;rd, i of tii'e Canada Pacific Rail- way and the railwav >\-stem . .' ' )ntario. "That in order to enable Western (hitari(» to enti'r into competition upon ainlhin-- like eipial terms with tiie Province ot (Juebec for the trade passin-; over the propo.sed IVench River branch Railuav, it is essential to make the connection at an earl\- date."' As President of the Pacihc Junction Railway, whicli has received a -rant from the city for purposes of e.xi)lor- ation, i^c. 1 presume that you are in a position to ^rjve full information of any progress made. 6 (>\/.IA-/(t .l.\7) r.Kllh Will you kindly .itVonl mr, for the iiilonniition of the Hoard, a report on the result of your exaniin.ition of route and any other information of \.ihie you nia> have in your l)ossessi()n rei^anhn.L; the i-\tension to Lake Xipissino. \'ours. \c., W. II. lloWLAM). I'll .• J. D. KiM.AK. l<:s(^»., I I'rrsl.lnit (hihirininni I'linii,- Jmirfnn, linllinni i\,. )■ '>'•'•' ^' •"• I'lii: Pki;sii)|.;n , oi. im. Oniakio and I'Ani |. J( NC'lJoN RaILWAV rn rkl.Mm.M' OK Mo\KJi (Jl' Tk \|J1.. T<'l«>\r(), ijtli DeeeiDber, !Sy5. i>>IA!< Sik, In reply to your letter of yesterday ask- ing; information, on behalf of the Hoard of Tr.ide. as to the proposed Rail\va\- extension to the eastern terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway near Lake \it)issin>r. I have much pleasure in furnishing \-ou with .i general statement ol tin: ma\- now secure tlie con- structi. n oi tJK 1)1-. I line of railwav- tt^ accomplish this important connection for themsil\-is. Whilr ii is univers.dly conceded tli.il an Ontari. J unc- tion railua\ to alt.iin this object is an ur-ent necessity, ;l may he well to note son)e of the more obvious reasons tor this unanimity of feeling;. I. I lu construction b>- the Dominion resource-, of tile line extendin*,^ fnjni Renfrew to (ii-or-ian Hay will tra\( I-,.' ' )iilario for Jon mile>, and open up lor imnu-- diate settlement an enormous drcA of this I'ro\iiue If vc a-.^'une that onl>- fifl.-ru milcs upon each side of t!ie railway will l)e thus deveJoped. uc liiid thai thi> will ohow the vast area of six thousand scpi.re miles brouj^lU within easy re.ich of a railway and of marki ts. and ren- dered far more attractive for settlement than an\- of oui older rcj,Mons were when taken up by their earl\' |)ione('rs. Is it to be tolerateil that the benefit of this extr.iordinary development of our own I'n.vir.ce should be allowed to drift away to the ICast ? That we should not be able even to send settlers in funn Western Ontario to take up our own lands without buyin^^ raiP.vay tickets to take them round by Ottaw.i ? Tiiat the whole trade of a i,neat dis- trict, which will soon form many new counties, should be ai)propriated by Montreal without even the i)ossibilily of fair comi)etition by our business men ? If we are behind- hand and tardy in formm .iX/> I'M Jin how (lifficiilt tlic ctTort is in ili\irt it afterwards iiit«. another. {2.) l.akr Xipissiii^ is a lar^c slui-l of w.ilcr Mir- roundcd by very fair land, of w hieh a consiilerable portion is adapted for settleimnt. The eNtensive tracts of limber aN)n}.( its shores, or on its tributary stream^, .ne ahnosl untoiiciied b\- thi- axe ; and when a r,iil\\a\' tVoin the Sonth once readies its waters tliere will bean imnifdiate oppurtnnit)' for si'ttJeineiU and l)nsiiu'ss. (^ The \'.ille)' (if the I'pper ( )ttawa i^ the _L;reat.st field for Canadian hnnberin^ operati. 'n>, mid e\ti\- y^ai' v.ist ([iiantities ol pork, llour, hay. .\w\ -^iipj)!!!-- of all tlcscriptioiis are -m nt in to the shanties tin iw .\i i>resrnt tile bulk of thesr supplies eoiiU' Ironi tin- Wi.'st. but ,iie sent l'",.ist a> far as ( )tta\\a, and lak- n up the ri\ir. .iiiil ovir land, at LMcat ('.xpensc. 'I he watirs ot the l'])per ()ttav\a aiL- (piile luar Lake Xipissiu^-. and by iiuan^ of tributary stix-anis are brought within a stil! shorter dis- tanci.'. it is leL;itin).ile and pro])er, a-- well as desirable. in the interests ol both the tanner and the luuiberman. that this tradi- should W- conim.iiuletl be WC-^tern ( )n- tario ; and the i)roposed line ot this Company will com- pleteh" accomplish th.it import. ml ohjecl, ('4.) If a route for this railw.i)' be adopted extending in as direct a line .is is praclic.ible from Cr.i\eiihurst to the Southern shore: of L.ike Niijissin^;". it \\ill i).iss through and (.levelop the \er\' heart, .iiul the nio.-.t ])romising por- tion of the Free (irant District, .iiid of the public domain still further to the .North. I'he comi)laint of seltU-is to- (.lay is that progress is slow, while L\en the earning a livelihood is ilitTicult and precarious in the absence of the markets, which a railway alone can supply. The Ix-st Colonizer on the American Continent is the railway ; and it is acknowledged that tlie ortlinar)- old-fashioned colonization waggon road cm no longer produce the 3=z=: "■ipB'^IWfWP^ yrxcT/ox kmi way compaxy ^ brisk development of new tlis,ricl< tli.il it may perhip^ have done in Ontario, uljtn then- \\t n- nnt s., nian>- rail- ways to attract settlement lUiwl'cn . (5.) Iherc an- tlirci lon^idciablc stretches of inland steamboat navij^ation ta|)|)t(l by tin ( iravinluirst and Nipissinj; ioute. Al Laki Wrnon a cuHRvlion ma)- he formed by steanur with the waters ol thai lake and the river of the same naim-. then on thn.ii-h l'"air> Lai;e and several miles of river, into and tlnoii-h M.uy Lake. Again at a pt)int sonu- forty milcsSouth of I.akr Nipissing at the crossing of the M.iganetawan, lli< re is a length of 25 miles of unbroken river and lake navigation t(. the Westward, running through a hi< I l\- tl.lilc .;i;ci i)romis- inpr bit of country. At the northern W \\\\nu> a port on Lake Nipissing is reached, and th. vaiious .idvantages of this connection have been already pointed out. It is to be recollected that these difierent navigable ^tr.tches are fed by other streams and lakes which reach far b.ick into the tracts of marketable tindjer, and can be used to float down logs in the high water of the spring time. I lie above are some of the more obvious reasons for the present necessity of completing a Pacific junction Line. It is fair to anticipate that in the near future there will be an extension of the Canadian Tacific Railway to Sault Ste Marie, or e\en further. The proposed line of this Company is heated in such a position as to make .1 direct and favourable connection with ^uch extension, and surely the Province - to make an exten- sion of 120 miles to join the Georgian Hay Bra-.ich. the Dominion Government has agreed to give that Company a cash bonus of $12,000 per mile. The cheapness of cer- tain railway supplies at present must be acknowledged, yet that advantage is more than counterbalanced by the depreciation of all Canadian Railway securities in the London market. Under all the circumstances, and with all the information that can be obtained, the Company has formed the conclusion that it cannot be hoped to construct their proposed railway unless the>- receive from the Province of Ontario a bonus in cash, or its equivalent, amounting to $12,000 per mile. When the Dominion (lovernment undertook to sub- sidize the Canada Central Extension, they certainlv to a great extent relieved the Provincial Treasury of claims upon it. Had this Railway connection with the East not been made by the General Government, there would have been almost unanswerable claims made upon the Province to aid its construction. In estimating the abilit> of Ontario to assist this rail- wax-, we must remember that it will create a new value to an important Provincial asset, namely, the waste lands of the Crown ; and at the same time will increase the HR ti OMTARhi i- PACIFrC yrXCTlOM RArtJVAY CO. receipts from timber clues b\- developinj^ new tracts of marketable jjinc and other timber. The Maganetawan is about the northern limit of the Free (irant Townships, and some of the very best of our wild lands lie between that river and Lake Nipissin^. To a settler a hundred acres of this land, near a railwa\', would be cheaper at one or two dollars per acre, than two hundred acres are now as a free ^ift in the same nei<;hbourhood. Many sons of our farmers in the older townships would think nothing of paying ihat price for a bush f^irm with railway facili- ties at hand, while the same men absolutely decline to take up the free L,nant lots as they are at present situated. From the rapid sale of Crown Lands at moderate rates that may be anticipated iilonj.,^ the Pacific Junction line, and also alonj^ the line of the Georgian liay Branch and Canada Central ICxtension, the Provincial Treasury would unquestionably receive back in actual money, within a very few )'ears. the whole sum no\v required to secure the construction of a great lVo\incial iron highway from Gravenhurst through to Lake Xipissing. Trusting that you ma}' deem the above information of some value to the Hoard of Trade. I am, dear sir. Yours, &c., J. D. f:dgar, I'tysidcnl Ontario ^ /Wifii jHmtion Ry, Cii. To \V. H. Howi.ANi). Esq., President Torotitu Board of Trade. lO AND PACIFIC JUN PLAN SHOWIN ^ \ ^1 ^UX^ \i \ **/ J\y * ll \ i/S^r^ n t/ V V^i ^ «{. J/ / '• ^\^^ 1 V V^B \ ^T \ k \ A«t Ij ^ "* ^i X r \x\ '/i^ ^^^^ NOTION RAILW ID LOCATION. ^ / V ^ /? o :r 7^ H- ILWAY. k dtaaaiM^ CodAirith tfr^ / O N SCALE 20 MILES TO ONE INCH. > f ^ £ ^