The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1914. TRANSPORT IN CANADA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 73, 17 March 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1914. TRANSPORT IN CANADA.

r'vY) clearer indication of the progressive policy Canada is adopting could he given than is offered by the immense outlay on transport iaciiities which is projected. It, is estimated that an expenditure of nearly a hundred millions sterling has already been authorised in Canada, mainly for the purpose jot facilitating the flow of Dominion products overseas, and tin's sum will be largely increased if the Georgian ißay Canal and several other schemes fare sanctioned, as the result of inquiries now in progress. On the ieastern seaboard, Halifax, Nova Scotia, is being equipped with new docks and piers that will provide accommodation for thirty of the largest ocean liners, whilst at St. John, New Brunswick, works of equal importance are in hand, including the construction of a breakwater 4,750 feet long. At Quebec a big dredging project is planned, and the excavation of a dry dock which, when completed, will lie the largest of its type in the world has been commenced. The channel to Montreal is to bo widened and deepen-

K'd, and, at the latter port, imprdvejmcnts designed to facilitate grain handling will, it is stated, bo finished before the reopening of the St. Lawrence season. Toronto’s harbor works, as well as similar undertakings at Hamilton, Sanlt Ste. .Marie, Fort 'William, and other inland navigation centres are well advanced. This farreaching movement towards expansion probably finds its intensest expression along the Pacific coast of the Dominion, a Canadian correspondent says, in view of the approaching open-

mg of the Panama Canal, and groat activity is now observable at Prince Rupert, Vancouver, Victoria, and New Westminster, so that when those enterprises are carried out. and the new railways in course of construction are ready for traffic, Canada will, as regards transportation facilities, compare with any country in the world.