A CANADIAN DOCK.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 646, 25 October 1909, Page 7

A CANADIAN DOCK.

'..:•....■■ V ■.■■.•! ; : EQUAL TO LARGEST BATTLESHIP. Il)> Migrant!.-I'r'uir a»iioel»tron.-<opjtlehlJ : -. ' i -,-.;'. (Rcc'. ; October 2i, 5.5, p.m.) '■'■ •'' '" : ■ London, October 23. \ "The Times" states that tho Belfast shipbuilding firm, Harlahd and Wolff, tho Canadian Pacihc Railway Company,- the Allan Steamship' Line, and the Dominion Gpverri- ' meht. will unite in the construction of a'.dry dock and repairing plant at St< John,- capital ; of _New Brunswick, capablo of. accommodating j the], largest battleship. , The Government will give' a subsidy equal to 3 per cent, on the capital cost, the subsidy not to exceed .£900(1 per annum. [An annual/payment' of £9000, capitalised on • a 3 per cent, basis, would bo ,£300,000. St i .John,,the commercial capital and largest 'citv of Now Brunswick, stands on tho left bank of tho estuary of the St. John, 277 miles bv rriil 1 ■■ N.W. of l/alifax, and 431' from Montreal The' harbour is. rood, and accessible to' the largest vessels at. all '.seasons. . Shipbuilding and the ; timber trade aro the- chief industries, tcother' with fishing arid tho West India'tradO; the ■ manufactures include engines and-loconibtivcs' ; machinery and farming implements; nails, axes'i leather, boots and shoes,: paper, cotton and' woollen goods, clothing, furniture, carriages - soap, etc. . On Juno 21, 1877, a firo : destroyed the-greater part of the town; but a new St John speedily arose, with wide clean streets' and handsome buildings—custom-house, post ■ office, city building, lnnntic asylum,, hospital 1 and. Roman Catholic cathedral. Adjoining St' ■ John; and practically.'forming with it one city' : is the town of Portland, The population in' 1 1001.wa5"40,711.] ' . . :■" ln ; TEAJALGAE DAY IN diNADA. ' "'..'.,' Ottawa; October 22. In many of the elementary schools in Canada' appropriate lessons were given in connection" 1 with Trafalgar Day.-