CANADIAN RAILWAYS.
THE GRAND TRUNK, (nx telegraph—ritEss association—corrniaur.) (Reo. March id, 4.30 p.m.) Ottav/a, March 13.' Tho Canadian. Government will lend tho Grand Trunk Pacific Railway two million sterling at 4 ; per cent, for a period of ten years, for'tho purpose of completing tho Winnipeg-Wolf Creek section, v ' ■ The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, which was approved by Parliament in 190-1, and is being built with Government aid, will extend ncros3 tho Dominion from Moncton, New Brnnswiok, on the east const, to Prince Rupert on tho Pacific Coast. Its total length will be 3500 miles. . Over 1200 miles of railway wero built in Canada in 1008. Although this is a remarkin bio increase, tho present year will probably show still greater expansion. There are under construction at tho'present time -1327 miles of* railway. • This extent will not be" completed daring the year, but it is estimated that the expenditure on construction by tho various lines will reach .£18,000,000^
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19090315.2.26
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 456, 15 March 1909, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
157CANADIAN RAILWAYS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 456, 15 March 1909, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in