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 SPEECH MADE BY 
 
 MR. J. G. SCOTT, 
 
 (lenoml M,,..,,!^,.,- of ih.i in.U.c Ifc [..ko St. John K«iUvav, and „1 
 tho Croat Nor horn Railway ol' Canada, 
 
 At the Banquet given by the Citizens of Quebec to the 
 
 HOXORABLH S. N. PARliNT, 
 
 MAYOR OF QUEBEC 
 
 At the Chateau Fmtenac on the 29th January, 1902. 
 
 Mr. Prcgiilent, — 
 
 Vou huve l«tll t'i>„cl oncMgh t„ „, 
 -wiute uiy name «iih thi- i,,ast cl 
 Ibe 'trade of the Port of yucljec, an<l 
 to asli me to respond us represeiilin.r 
 the railroad interests 01 the city. I 
 «m sure you coJid easily have selected 
 some one better ((uulilied to speak on 
 behalf of a branch of our t.aile ^o im- 
 portant and so necessary us laihvays 
 are to the life and prosi)eritv of dii\ 
 city. But it you will bear with rao 1 
 shall endeavor to irive a short sum- 
 mary of the railroad position nf the 
 eily of Quebec and of its future re- 
 quirements and possibilities in this 
 Vital question. 
 
 i'rior to IS70 the city of Quelwc was 
 without railway communiita'ijn of 
 any kind. Our merchants up tc, that 
 time had had the entire control of the 
 lumber trade of the old Provinces of 
 Canada, and that trade was so l.irge 
 and so profitable— as manv us l.COU 
 ships have loaded in Queliec in one 
 year to my recollection— that they 
 eave no thought to other hU'<inP'» and 
 a. lowed other communities to tecome 
 railway centres at the oubli'! e^penne. 
 
 But about 1870 they coumieneed to see 
 that tlie lulaber trade nus LeainniDij 
 to slip away from them. l.-ic con- 
 sumption of square timber, liithirlo 
 the great staple of Quebec trad.) re- 
 son to diminish in p:ni;lanH. or I'uiher 
 to bo replaced by the use of sawn 
 lumber and dimension stulf. It be- 
 came more and more profitable to suw 
 this lumljer at mills in the inirrior, 
 and the railways made it pr.s.iinle to 
 ship to Montreal, Portland an I Ro» 
 ton what had formerly bc-n pliii.pe.1 
 exclusively at Quebec. Some cf our 
 people then turned their attention to 
 the idea of utilizine the spruce and 
 hardwood forests north of <Ju.'l»«, p.n,| 
 this led to the construction of ih- 
 first railway on the Quebec side of thi. 
 river, the Quebec & Gosford-a w.iod, n 
 one— which proved a failure, and il« 
 promoters, headed by Sir TIenri .I,.|v 
 de Lotbiniere, after workiu' like 
 heroes, lost all their mono- |l7ii th^ 
 seed Ihev had sown was Hestino<l to 
 produce marvellous results, v.hi.-h ihev 
 had never dreamed of. The sieht of 
 the first locomotive on the vtreets of 
 Quebec, streets so throneed with peo 
 pie as to become absolutely impns'a- 
 
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 Me, BO thttL till- iUo"' "' i""L ''">■' 
 Htaadins on the pilut u( the luiomu- 
 Live, WAS unable to clear a pUfcagu 
 tor ibe eDifinti until niffht— ;he aigut 
 of tiiiB lucumotivti ^£eL\^a the i>eoplo uf 
 i^iebeo ihe raijiuu*^! iavar. 'J he ft'Vei- 
 LulminatoU m a cry lur ihe Norili 
 ?-hore Uailway anJ ended in the iity 
 vulin;; a million dollars to that cd- 
 im-pritK. 'ibu iut'ucliou ipruad to Mon- 
 ircal. which voted tiir ilu^Eh AU;in a 
 luilliou I'ur bid roud from Uonirual to 
 VtMWf , und iinally took root in the 
 UooUB ju i'arliameut, vshich at that 
 hiatoric uucitiiou when Sir Uuor^ij Cur- 
 tiar eriud "AH ubourd fur the I'ocitic, ' 
 votad to ctwliuue Hir ilugb Allcin's 
 road fKMB OttAWft to tke I'acilic 
 OoMUi. I v««tun to aajr that the 
 iia«liaMA4«ovir]Mir of firituh Colum- 
 kte MfVWr tfcinlw-ttay, 1 Know be ifl 
 too MtMt io t^ink U, tbou^h it it 
 I fa Ifcal hn work, kit koiue to bcuee 
 canvasB for wubscriptions to thu l^oa- 
 r'ord Uailway, his generous ci ntribu- 
 tiona frou bis own pocket, wero tbe 
 (oundation oi that great ouierprite, 
 that iftoriuus public work A'hicb bas 
 buunU ocean to ocean and made Can- 
 ada a united and prosjKroua nation, 
 preuentiu}^ to ibu vsuriU tbe »>pcciucle 
 of a new country raisinjT la^t y(:ar a 
 crop of one hundred million Lusb^'ls of 
 grain, but thia in not all. The fail- 
 ure of tbe woodvu road did not dis- 
 couraffe those who baid built it. They 
 determined that it should be convened 
 into iron and extended to ' ike St. 
 John. No easy task in tbo^e days. 
 But at the head of the movumfnt ^\atj 
 a man to whom it was uuele'da to say 
 no. Throw him from tbe wall at one 
 point, he would scale it at another. I 
 let'er to M. W. Buby, a far-ijeeing n.an 
 and a lover of his country, who wtrug- 
 ifled for many years until be (jot the 
 City of Quebec to vote $450,000, tbe 
 Provincial Covernmunt a lan-l and 
 money subsidy. Rnd the Dominion a 
 subsidy of 33,200 per mile to the Que- 
 bec &. Lake St. John Kailway. Ibere 
 is a curious story in connection vUb 
 the n-tiiinion sulisidy. The policy of 
 
 the Fedural Go\L-r.imL.'nL up to that 
 time had been to refuse invariably 
 any assistance of any Kind to loral 
 niilways. In u weak moui'^nt &ir. 
 Alexander Mm I.. ii/.'\ .U.n . i ni'. r nt 
 Ottawa, yifldiHl to a pressure from 
 New Iliuii^^\ ilk iifiJ I'liM II i.'.-(il luad 
 there some seci.in<l hand raili that had 
 Ui-n thrown <>ul Ii> ilir Ini'Tcoionial. 
 This was llaby's opportunity, und an 
 adritation \\ as raiacd throuubout the 
 I'riivinct', tthiuli lontiittd, lu iht- sut-cei'd- 
 in:X I'arliauuMit, in u \inc (if ^:{,-lJU jt.T 
 mile — the e<iiiivalent of the old vails— 
 to the Laki; St. John and other rail- 
 ways, anil established the policy of a 
 small Federal subsidy to local rail- 
 ways, a policy which has Ijeon pro- 
 ductive of inestimable advantage to 
 (Janada, and has brought lu an im- 
 mense amount of foreign capita) which 
 has increased the railway mileage of 
 CanatJa from fi.800 miles in 18S0 to 
 17,000 miles in IDOO. 
 
 A financial l^asis being thus hocured. 
 the work of construction wa^ then 
 pushed on by a company composed of 
 Messrs. Koss, ULMiaiid. Withall. (lar- 
 neau, Beaudet. Thibaudoau, Caron aLd 
 others, not forgetting H. •). Boenitr. 
 the energetic American contractor, to 
 wiioni Quebec owes mo much. After 
 many strug^rlcs and sacrificeti on tbe 
 part of these gentlemen Lake Si, John 
 was reached, and to-day this railway 
 is not only urnishing two-thirds of 
 the lumber i.xported at Quebt-c, but cy 
 the rapid settlement of the Ijeautii'ul 
 country which it reaches, liy the pulp 
 mills and other industries which it bas 
 created, the cmployna'nt gi\en to tbe 
 laborinf; classes, u beck country is 
 furnished to our city which is givinij 
 prosperity to our merchants anil 
 freight to the ships \\bich visit our 
 port. In mldition to this a new 
 route has been o|Jened for [jloasura tra- 
 vel v;} ch attracts annually to rur 
 city t ousands of wealthy touriMts, 
 
 But tbt) good results oi this cour- 
 ageous enterprise of a few men do 
 not end here. The completion of the 
 Lako St. John soon caused the ue- 
 
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 ' "i-ity for B wostprn extension, and 
 H^^ttici .smiip n( ihn same gentlfmpn. 
 hpR*Ii-il liy uiM' of the niMst enttTprls 
 triff m.n Qiit'l)*'r hna Imd the uoo'l 
 fdrtunf to [iD-scMK— I ulludo t<. tin- 
 lion. I'iciTi' 'InriiPQii— well spcon.It'd 
 Ity rtiit «oilh> chuinnan, Mr, Cha 
 U-niivrrt. toi.K ihc load upon thflr 
 '<honl(|ii-H ami fnmnn'nciHl llirt (Irnal 
 Norlh'-rn Hailwny. (Mr. tJiirin-an is 
 pipvt'iued by lllm-su fiom luinir \\»t)i 
 US to-iiitfht, othrrwisp hp would Iir 
 hnc. Ic'caiise he is always to ihr from 
 uhf'n ihp intci't'Sta of (Juflwc am in 
 \nl\t'd. and if yoii want a proof of 
 this, iooit at the Qnolipo Sitani^hlp 
 f'o*npany. of which ho is I'residrnt. 
 and ha.^ Ix^pn a 'lirrt-tor sincK I'^HT. 
 who«c »nfiirnirir''nt t'lo«'t of nUKl-in 
 wtcani'T-* \u\^ mad.' thp namo of tiiio 
 hpo a hoiiMohold word in the po-*! of 
 New ^'orli nnd in f he Wr^i Indir^-J. * 
 \ifain thf (!o\.>rnm('rit came It) ih** 
 rescue with siilisidios An apical 
 
 wftF nindt' l)v ilif (nont Northern to 
 th(- rit>- of (Quebec, which was rcspon- 
 derl to Iiy n subscription of ?2<'n.f«)0, 
 but only niter nmch nf^crotiation. nw 
 ini? to the rarefid wn.tchfii!ni'SB with 
 ■which onr worthy Mayor surroinul.i 
 pvery pxponditnn- from thp munt-'ipnl 
 chest. Dnrin-j thrif n'c tiationh we 
 had purpfvdfd in bwildinij nearly halt 
 the road, and soon n^ the city had 
 
 dwicfcd to ptib^^iTib^i WM enlisted the 
 help of some \Miei;can rnpitalists, no- 
 tably Colonel McXaiicht of New York 
 -.n.l M,. 11 It M.-lviMc. of r.nstont 
 
 who ha\p «drl<ed «o hnrd for. nnd 
 become ro interpsted in (he pro-^peri- 
 tv of Qneber, that they are fully en- 
 titled to Iip considered no fellowciti- 
 7on9. Well, the Orent Northern is 
 rmishfvl and in oneration. nnd bo is 
 its million bnf^hel elevnlor on the 
 f-onipe Ra^-rn: the '.onin shippinc trad* 
 ,,r ijiielx^e ha-; made H l; o,-1 start, and 
 t* lofil.-: n« If wc \M're coinc to have 
 'or shi[ttinnt nt onr port all thft pnlp. 
 imoer and other nr'tdtirls of the in- 
 diistri"" at <"-rnnd Mere and Shawini- 
 ean, industries which ha\o cont seve- 
 ral millions of dollars, and which i 
 
 would not I'xist to-day if it were not 
 "r.r the construction of the (bent N.-r 
 ihern- 
 
 I leii\e it to Mr. Mel\-iIIi'. « ho in 
 ir-e»*ent. to explain to yon more fulK 
 he Moi-t< n'mmpli'^hed by the rprenl 
 Vorth'in, and the opinion \shich i« 
 ■ntertniried of it, nnd of t\>- St, I.rw- 
 't nee route, and of » lU" port, by fin- 
 uieiui nii-n in the rniled Siiiten. Bnl 
 before doInL' s.i I sould wis;h to Iwar 
 'ribute to tVie elTort" of one f ho \^ 
 'I'l lonj-er with n^. the late Mr Po- 
 >e||. nlwiu'o n firm I>e1ie\Tr in th" 
 flrt'^t N' vth-ni. which h.- hcl|«d libar- 
 illy. I well rHuieniber his arfcuinenk 
 'mfnrp thp Ci'v Council whnn the ob- 
 jpctinn w.iH riiisfd that t^ueWc it clt>« 
 -d to niiil.r bn-Jtiieas, How h^ point- 
 'd out thnt the [ironiMTous cillPit of 
 "liL'a. Meni'' (itid Hnnt/ic. in thp Ral- 
 'ic, are in e\,u'tlv the name t'osition 
 I's l^ieU'e „n-i still do n splendid !"hip 
 lin^ trade |>finausp their rnilwayn 
 Jtretch into the intprior. and bi?n(j 
 to them during the winter frain, lum- 
 ber nnd '^fher prorlncta lo toad their 
 ihijw in the sprinir. ^1r noIieH'o placn 
 n ihii^ communTlv wilt not rrnflib- be 
 filled. 
 
 Ki;ht railways now concert:* at 
 *)uebcc on opposite sides f)f the St. 
 T,awrcnce. The irrpatpst impedimciii to 
 ihejr usefulness is the want of com- 
 mL.nication between them. That ob- 
 iection if now beinc remo\'ed bv th« 
 rapid pro^^resi Irf-inir made in tho con- 
 fltrucfion of the bridtjo which will b« 
 one of the enijineerinrr wonders of th*» 
 World. ha\in(7 a sincte span ninety 
 fertt Ioniser than the e.debrnted bridce 
 .■.ver the Firth oF Forth, When thin 
 bridce Is finished, the prain. lnml»er 
 and other orodnets of the Me<:t and 
 north cTi, rench n mnrlict in the south 
 or in the winter time a <e!uiort for 
 shipm-nt. .^^f^ ^ill the roads on th« 
 south side will ronie Mito Quel>ec. find 
 amonc"* thei-i, wp hoi^. the New 
 York Central .\nd when I gpeaU of 
 the Vpw Vor't Tpnti,'!. their nT!W>mp 
 advent amongst us would seem likily 
 to bn more contain than we had aup- 
 
 
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 IHMed, if we may judtfu from tusliiy'* 
 newipsper roporta. And in thia cuii- 
 noctiun I v\()iiM a»k \(iii, Mr. ('huir- 
 man, could aiiything; he more tii^niti- 
 fiint more auMpiriouH. for the future 
 of Quehoc ihiin the fti . thnt the crrpa- 
 teat railway in Amprica. and the prea- 
 te»*i nwlMr of upper lalte tonnage are 
 At tk« aame nioment secl^inif entrv 
 to OUT port ? The completion of tVis 
 gnmt worl< of the St. T.awrenep hridije 
 will tranaform our orood old city, and 
 we ow it entirely to our wnrth^■ 
 nrlMCt of this e\'ening, the Mayor of 
 
 Such ie the present position of the 
 railway interest" of the city of Qiieliec 
 for which yf»u have been cood enoiiph 
 to aalc ine to apeak. They have all 
 been jreated during the last thirty 
 years, and ha\-e in^'ol^'efl the expen- 
 diture of an immense sum of money. 
 Kven the Lake St. .fohn and T.reat 
 Northern, with the humble beginnincs 
 I have described, have cost over nin. 
 m.lhon, of dollura, and yet dnrii" 
 their conatruction not a lalK-rin^ man 
 
 have been built prnctieallv without li- 
 l-eationof any kind. These results 
 are largety Hue to the eoi-dial eo-ope- 
 ration of citizens of |v„h national 
 tea, and to that .rood feeling be- 
 tween French and English which I 
 am happy to say exists in ,„ mnrkcl 
 a dec-ree ,n th,. Ancient Capital. 
 
 auch la a brief description of »hat 
 has been done by the p,.o,,le of ,h,s 
 ■•■ty towards Bhaping the railvay 
 nohcy of Canada, since thev a«obe 
 from the lethargy „f the lumber trade 
 th.rty years ago. Thoy began late 
 but It .eems to me that, all things 
 considered, the men of this hisu.rlc 
 old city ha^e not been altogether un- 
 worthy of their luedocessors, who 
 ecnturiea ago, aiscovered and showed 
 the road to the MTS.sissipiJi, to 
 Louisiana, to the Ked Kiver, the Mac- 
 kenzu., and cmji. lo the distant shores 
 of Hudson's Bay. 
 
 Surely this tittle history, which to 
 
 oie seems so wonderful, should teach 
 ■18 to see not only that we «hould not 
 .icdpise aiuull bc^itinin^s, but that 
 with uiiiiy of pur|>oHe. with reH|)ect 
 ior the riijhla uud tVcliugs ol others, 
 in olher words. l:y all ■'i-ineiits of our 
 l«>pulatii)ii woriiuL' haiui in hand, as 
 we hji^e (lone in the |)usl. ii iviM lie 
 [Lis.-iiblf for our coulttierciul eolumuni- 
 I> to act-tiinplish much in the future; 
 '"or much reiuiiins slill to In* ilone lie- 
 fore (juclwc tal.e^ her riiihtiul place 
 iitni'itirst ttie gicnt seaports of the 
 world 
 
 \ud now— US U) the future- - 
 ,\wav t.i the northwestwaid itf (Jue- 
 lx>c lieyon'l the heiL'hl of bind and 
 aouth of .Tnnics Mav- stretcliPM a ^■ast 
 country, recently ac'iuired by the Pro- 
 ' ti.'-e of fjucbec from the nomiuiim 
 Parliament. This t.rritory contains 
 un area of 'O.lMlo -.[uaro miles, or 
 equal in e.vtent to KurIuikI. It has 
 oeun commonly »up|H.sud ihat lieing 
 adjacent to lIudscuiH Hay— the name 
 of which makes on« shiviu-— (he clininte 
 would make this country of litilu 
 calue. But there could be no greater 
 mistake. There is an ohservnlory at 
 .Moose factory, on -lames Ray, and 
 the result of fiv.. years' observations 
 lirove.» thm ihc ineriiiTc ..iimiuir tem- 
 Meratiire Ih.-re is ihrc rler-ree, warmer 
 than RinioMski nn the St. f.aw-rence. 
 and somewhat wanner than the Lake 
 J'ft. -fohn d!«trict. and that the snow- 
 fall is half that of Montreal. So 
 ihat from a i-Iimatic j.oint of 
 
 view anything that can be irrown at 
 LaKe St. .lohn. Ciuebec or Winnipeg, 
 can he grown in the James Bay dis 
 trict. The Missionaries of Now 
 France in the old times, to whose 
 work Parkman pays so just n tribute, 
 knew this better than we do to-dayl 
 for Pere Albanel, » loso route we are 
 seeking to follow, said two hundred 
 years ago that lie found the wild 
 ro8*^s in bloom at James Bay as early 
 as tie had seen ifiem at (Quebec. En 
 gineers ana surveyors have been 
 through tliM new country in every 
 
riii-ection. Tb«y all ayrfe that thv 
 ruuntry is level ami wtll tiniljfn>il, 
 
 cHIM'cittlly in Mprui". ho valimhl*- nuw 
 {if pmI|> finu pul> and nlxiiinflint; in 
 -..■ti.idid wRtrr pOULis, the mtil ^'on.l. 
 iiml the inrlicationii of mincralu m r\ 
 (rtnint'iing:. Oui cn(*fL'(?tic fcllnw uiri 
 /.•n. Mr. Henry O'Sutlivan. C.F.. <li 
 rector of Provincial SurVpys, «ho ha^ 
 lifcn 'hrcf tinirs through thin .ounfrv , 
 (*« I'ntJiiisrastir nhout It, nnd, ti- 
 
 |)ro\e thi' oxrcllf'ncp of the clinint*-. 
 took a sw.m o JaniPs Bnv in Octobr'i 
 Tli.-rn can bo no dnuht that thtTf i- 
 thiic iin rnornioiiH fifld for acriniltui-' 
 f'M- ininiiii; and for the mnniifart nn- c»)' 
 pulp nnd paper. Who will nbtnin mn 
 trol of this (jrrat * 'rritorv ? Wp wIk, 
 hold (he ufarKirtfl hy which itn nro 
 fltir»i nhoidd !* t'xporlt'd. or thf» Pro 
 V inn.- nf OntHrin which is en alivp to 
 its value that the Provinrial f^ovein 
 nit-nt in now about to build as a nub 
 'ic work, tbt* first KPction of a railway 
 fto'n I.al<n Nipissinij tmvnrds .lamt'u 
 Ray? Foif 'ly we ha\p thrf-e 
 
 important fnc....o in our favor. In the 
 first pinre it is common smse thnt 
 thi« n*Mv territory snoiiUl hi\\o itp 
 oiillft t(. u (it'a|iort. Stcondly, na 
 ture lends its*'lf to ihc l<nntii>n 
 railway from bnkr Si. dohn 
 duint's Hay, hfcaiisf a i.'iiNr;*! 
 v.L N' had up thr \all»v\ ..I' t\-v 
 hita|»*.iouchouan Ui\er v'hich lluws in 
 to 1-ake St. dolin and flown the val- 
 ley of the immense Nottoway l{i\fr 
 which lto«s into .lames Ray. This 
 
 line will be le\el and j«irai^ht. and 
 will pass through th« very eenirt> ^ti 
 (he territory which IxdoncB to the 
 Pr'tvinf e cif QuoIht 'Ihiiflly, the 
 
 Dominion r!o\»-rnmcnt. thnnks in ihe 
 (•ni'C£ry i»( (Hir representatives. hi»\e re- 
 roijnized the morits of o't claim by 
 lotinir a handsome kuIj^iiv- finiti [,nke 
 St. John toward.j .lames Bay, s.i ihiii 
 (here should lie n urod chjiiire of 
 (his territory Iwvomini;' tribi-.tary to 
 the city of Quebec. 
 But this is not ail. A rrtan<' 
 
 of 
 
 As 
 
 at 
 
 the map will show you that this line 
 
 from Lake St. John to James Bay, if 
 pr<)N>' L:td to Port Simpson, on ihf 
 Paiilif ..oast, will form tho shorten! 
 (M>st<ible lino from -icean to oce.m. 
 (lUB.sintf through a country sniiable 
 tor ng'ricultun) for the entire ci'istance 
 iiom l.akii St. .lohn to tho ItocUy 
 Moiinlains, i -ough the centre nf the 
 teriiie Py( .(iver vatl.y, a, id so di- 
 HH-t that ,. will be MM) niilei, nhiutcr 
 imm ncp4n to crean than th« CHiia- 
 lian Panlic. filH) miles shorter than 
 \!acken:'le iV Mann's projected Utw, 
 and ',-2'o mili-H shorter to .Ia|ian and 
 China than tho Camulian Pacitio, and 
 vet Ko tar north of the latter that in 
 ^lead of injuring its traffo. it must 
 lo If cond by MttlilUf up the /one of 
 atrriruliiiral country between tha two 
 lines. 
 
 Vou will, no doubt, think this a 
 very amliiliouw scheme. It has that 
 appeurunce. But it is n<»t visionary. 
 It has ^,'^'o-raphy on its side, and Que- 
 iiec happ-na to be so siiuated gco- 
 liTapliii-ally that jooner or later it 
 must Ih-cuiug the eastern termiiiiiw, 
 with the Saciienay |)erhaps ahiirinu 
 in the ovcrllow of the tratrir, ii ihf- 
 -horte^t [....--•'ihli' transcontinental Iin. 
 The wheat belt of western f'l. noa 
 stretches from latitude 1!( to Inut' ' 
 ')•'>. nnd in the wpst as far as latit ,(it- 
 00. an average width of <.\pr .110 
 miles. The fanner has scarcely idtieh- 
 ed this wheat i)elt. and yet \vc ha^ e 
 such a crop that the C.P.K. is ro day 
 arraneintr for an immens. anio-mt of 
 capital to double track the n.ud and 
 increa-^o its equipment. \nd the (i 
 nancial imsition of the C.P.li. ih ^o e\. 
 ceJlent that this additional apital is 
 to Ije raised not by additional mort- 
 gages, but by increasing the iatiuc of 
 common stock — it is to be presumed 
 at not less than par — a financial foal 
 i almost without precedent in the his- 
 ; tory of railways in America. Does not 
 I thid n'o\e the necessity of another road 
 lor [lerhaps two? And if so, why 
 should we drag grain grown in lati- 
 tude 50 or 55, and intended to be 
 
— « — 
 
 •hipiwd to LivnrpnnI, uhirh ta 300 
 mili'n furlhtT nnrth than yin-brc. down 
 to the iHiit ni New York* in Intitiido 
 40 fnr *(hi|irn<'nt. am wc urn <lr>in(r to- 
 day, vihcn (ho nhortrsi |>i)n«iliJv nmtp 
 
 to thr ^la will l.linir it in the i.olt t,i 
 
 t-iiwUc in InlitiiHp 47 ? Mon-ovrr thii* 
 U not n npw projwt. It vvum udxo- 
 rnlcd Iw-fort' QupIh'C propto twenty 
 \fniR ftijo hy (lenrrnl McwHon. on 
 rmitunl \mcrionn onjfini'rr. MorciiK 
 
 Smith, one of tho nifi^t pniinrnt of 
 f'nn.idinn fnifiiippro, also, if I am 
 n"t mist iAvn, npprnvrd of thin rotitp. 
 And th. „ut' Sf-nnlnr .Iam<'n (Uhb 
 l(o«n. of Qm'lwc, »an A slrontj ad\o- 
 ciilr of r. rnllway to danif)* Bay, l''nr- 
 thcr ihp I this I may nny that there tfi 
 fi DoriM.iion charter for this transcon- 
 tinental line, nnd thot it in controlled 
 hy Qiieliec and I^ondon people. 
 
 I thinli, Mr. Chairman, and n!>ntlc- 
 nien, th it by thm time you will be 
 Horry that you called uiM-n nie to res- 
 pond to thifl toa-it. I fear that I 
 hdve iniiioNfd ispon your patience and 
 your pO( d naturu. Hut the proRjw- 
 rity of our city in bound up in the 
 '^lestion of railroad facilities. Wo 
 have a great country, full of undevel- 
 oped wealth and resourcpB. We are 
 only living an it were, on the fringe 
 nf it. Our efTortH in huildintj the 
 Canadian Pacific have reRulted in a 
 marvellotiR financial wuccpm, so that 
 «ha* Ruemn to-day vidjonary ar>d al- 
 
 niodt im[K>f<Hible of accompll^Sr.i nt 
 will (rolMilJy, in the cournc of h t-w 
 yi'ar«. ihroi-(>h the inrroase in thi 
 wralih of the country, through ihi 
 (jisrox-rrifs nf itiinrrala. throuuh the 
 inrrrnKinii demniid for water powem 
 ftn<i' I'nr r>iilp nnd paper, become eom 
 pttiati\ely vuhv work, and nil thi 
 more no if w« now have contklrnre ir 
 nur«eU(H and make a Iw^rinninB', firni 
 mnkinjj sure that wo are on the rlifhi 
 track. 
 
 When iKis come* to pasi, Quelwc 
 will Uconie, UN Nature intended hct 
 to he. nnd UN Krontonac predicted 
 Tf thin Iwd hundred year« ngo, tht 
 HhippM'ii |HH-t of half the continont. 
 
 But ovt n to-tlay we have made grea\ 
 Htridis towards that entl. In a few 
 months we nhall rco the trains oi th" 
 Crand Trunk, the IntcrcoUminl, th" 
 Quel)er Central and the New Vorl. 
 CcntrnI crosHing: the bridge and hrinij 
 ng the trnfTic of the noiith and tht 
 cant to our harlxir. Wp shall hpe the 
 l.ake St. .M)hn, the Creat Norihirr. 
 the C. T*. R. and tho Mtinlmorcncy 
 railw'ayR bringing inereaning huHinetti 
 for otir shipping. We Bhall Re»* an 
 flitionnl linen of ocean nteameri* mat 
 iniEf Quebec their terminun, and iioi' 
 hap«. the Fast Atlantic Service. .\n i 
 when that prosperous time couiea i 
 ho|>e we shall not forget how tnu ', 
 we are indebted for it to our guest .,i 
 this eveninjf— our worthy Mayor. 
 

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