CANADIAN WATERWAYS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 512, 20 May 1909, Page 5

CANADIAN WATERWAYS.

DEEPENING ST; LAWfiENtIEi (nf T'ElEaiUpEt-y-rßEss iasocutiOM-H:oytßidllTi) . . OttAv/a, May 18. The Hon. Li Pi Brodeur, Minister for Murifio arid Fishofica, stated ill the Dominion Ilotiso of Commons tlirit the deepening of the St, Latffence.Clianhei to 80 feet; and the bbinjiletiiiE of a 35 feet obailnei iri that part of the fivor between Montreal and tile sea, would lie Shortly begun. GEORGIAN BAY CANAL. . The Canadian Government .is praotically committed to "the Georgian Bay Canal scheme for bribgipg thb gfain of the North-West by water tb tho Atlantic.. In a tiolicy speeoh, tho I'riine MinisW (Sir Wilfrid Laurier). said that thi Georgian Hay Caiial was not the )uouopoly of the pebplq of North .Ontario,- it interegtccl tho city of Montreal, the people along the banks of the St. Lawrence, and the men tilling the soil are raising Wheat on tho prairies. There was he; ilddeSsity fbf hilii to 'advocate tho Georgian Bay Canal route; it .had been a trade route from the earliest dayfe of tho colony, Tho Wheat traders nitlst have the shortest aiid cheapest route to marketi and it went without flaying that the shortest diul best route wuuid ha by, the Georgian Bay C'anali They miist.havd tiife. Gland Trunk Pacific lilie and tho Georgian Bay Caiial as well, and the canal deepened to 20ft., and more railways, and then they would have hardly enough means of transportation f&r the develbjihitnt af. tho country. ". According to one writer, tho Georgian Briy route " will shorten thb joutney from tile Lakes to Montreal by nearly 500 miles, it will prqvide a water-tract on which the vessels navigating the Lakes mas; cbhvo ytboit cargoes from the point of embarkation td the pdrt of transhipment on the K.t- Lawrence, and will iilhka, it Oosdllle ftif the jffhill of that vast jiiid fertile region IU Miuli tile European tnafkots toy illl-IlHtisli trahSpdrtdtmii. It is estilaatcd that tho cost of the water-way oonstfilction may , run ffhlii ifilS,(ll)0,00() to cC20,01)0,d51). find .thiit thd pchette- \tUl ftVSiUUfiUy ristiuM by li oaoia. a Mullet,"