CANADIAN HINTERLAND.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 923, 16 September 1910, Page 6

CANADIAN HINTERLAND.

. . , " . V ' ",w- ■"I.'i GOVEENOE-GENEEAL'S TOUE. .ByTelesriph^Pre'sfA^ Ottawa, Septembei 14. Earl .Grey, Governor-General •of Can- .. Ada, recen% ; trayeUed/MOO 'through the Canadian Hinterland! ,4h Official're-' port on ■ the tour has now" .been : published.' /', It. states.that an .excellent ' grain ;trada :■ route; is 1 available, ' along ' Hudson . Bay, .. • and.'recommends its adoption. The travelling,, the. report,adds, was asvpleasant;as V; 'summer,:-sailing > bri' :,tiie y /A tlp.iitic.-_.; Navigation is easy for four' months in ; the jear. v

A REMARKABLE TRIP. ;The following cablegram from dated, July r 27,■was-. published::;inVth? ; "Standard of: Empire""The! Governor* 1 - 1 ■ General,. Earl Grey; starts :,toJay : onl-his-V' great; 50C0 miles tTip through the :Cana- ■ dian Hinterland. leaving Selkirk . for Norway House, at the foot of late Winnipeg,. Earl. Grey' . will; travel "along" tha C Hayes Elver by canoe to Port Nelson,'on the, shores of Hudson' Bay, and will' journey , thence .in the- : Government steamer Earl.-- Grey across the bay and tljjough'Hudson; Strait,-iMd thence south-;.;. ward down the Labrador coast to "Newfoundland. As at present- arranged,'his ' Excellency will spend a week or .two in Newfoundland for-the salmon fishing,' and l ■ then - will.'return'- to /' Canada: by- way of '! Montreal. ; Earl' Grey-, irill bo accompan- - ied...by a party, of ten, including Pro-- ' feasor Reginald Brock, Director .of. theCanadian Geological /:Survey, .who .will be. : , responsibia .'for. the meteorological ro> ■: searches' te; be undertaken,- and' thel'Govi- ' .. brnor-General .will, tako time' thoroughly to investigate the :character of the conntry ..and the conditions of navigation, in - ; view of the probability , of. Hudson . Bay being -established -as the).future! route for '. the export ,of .grain from /Western .Canadar to-.'Great Britain.: -The' trip .will in every ; respect 'be . a remarkable , one. . No other ' Governor-General .'of.;Gaha'(la''has ever attempted the exploration of so . largo a tract of unsettled country; nor. engaged i in an enterprise in. which the interests • involved are of : such) great and far-reach- ■ ing importance to tho Dominion. It .;. likely that in this' practically untrodden countrymany " geological" andotlierdis- ' coveries of great value ! may bo made, while if the anticipations of tho Govern-.' meat, are realised with. regard to tho practicability ; .'of: the- route., - for -.'grain. V.transport, i»w.; and important industries j will be'opened up." ■ ■ v-- ■ "■