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Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul clich6, il est film6 d partir de I'anple supdrieur gauche, de gauche i droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images ndcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 THB AMD Midland Conntiei' Herald. .T fridav, October 17, IS79. V-.1- .- — ? — g^ TRENT VALLEY CANAL. Till! valloy of the Saskatchewan ia the point to which the Old World is now looking as the source of its future food supply. It is as certain as any- thing in this world can be that the industrial population of Kuropc in an- other „'cneration will have to bo fed witl' food raised in the Canadian North- West. Therefore it becomes of the most vital importance that the cheapest {.ossihle means should be adopted for tran^pol<■ll^: wheat from the Saskatche- wan to Liverpool. It is ctiually im- portant that every available route should be utilized without delay. This being the position the project now under con- dideration, for eoii.structing a canal from (Georgian Bay to the St. Lawrence, is becoming of the deepest interest, and ehouhl bo received with great favour alike by Liverpool, Quebec, Montreal, Ontario, .Manitoba, and the North West. The construction of the canal shortens t'. distance between Sault 8t. Marie Bod .^lontreal by :250 milei, and furnishes the cheapest of all means of transport for the produce of the Nei;th West on 11 considerable porlion of the distance to be traversed. The Canal leaves tho Georgian Hay, either at the Severn Harbour, or at the mouth of the Not- tawasaga, and following a splendid chain of small lakes, eoonccted by short rivers, runs info the IJay of Qjinle at the head of the St. Lawrence. When this Canal is opened the wheat of the North West will be carried by the I'acitic Railway to Thunder Bay on Lake Superior. Kroin thence large propellers will convey it to (ieorgian Bay. There it will 111' put into the Trent Valley Canal barges, carrying 500 tons each, or l.),00tl bu.shels of wheat, and 20 of these barges will be towed in a string direct to Montreal, parsing 'hrough the Trent A'alley Canal and down the St. Lawrence. No large lake to traverse, no danger of wreck, no expense beyond that of the wages of one man to c^:'. barge to steer it. At Montreal largo ocean bonie ves.sels, or Allen's steam ships, convey it to Liverpool. Can any means be found cheaper than ttiis for the trau.sport of grain? This journal is not an admirer of Sir Charles Tupper. WT can it forget that Sir John Macdonald has certain idiosyncrasies of character and peculiar views on the subject of Chartei-s, but we are bound to acknowledge that the (Jovernment which Sir .Tohn leads, and the Depart- ment of which Sir Charles is the head, has shown a brond and statesmanlike capacity in dealing with this subject of the North West, and the means of transporting its pioduce, which contrasts most favourably with that of their pre- dcci'ssors, .vho, however honest they may have been, never succeeded in projecting their vision a pimple's length beyond the end of their noses. Tho public move- ment in favour of the construction of tho Trent Valley Canal now in progress, may have tho most important influence on tho future of the North West, inas- much as it will provide another, and cheap means, of transporting the bread stuffs of tl)' great wheat belt of tho wcft, to the hungering workmen of tho industrial nations of Europe. ■i