RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT IN CANADA
An extensive railway building programme is being launched by the Canadian National Railways, as a result of tli© increased demand for passenger and industrial transportation brought about by an unbroken cycle of five years of prosperity. Within the next two years 700 miles of lines are to be constructed, and the cost is calculated at £5,750,000. The wheat-growing sections of the province of Saskatchewan will be the chief beneficiaries under the building programme. Widely scattered farms will be brought into direct communication with the main transcontinental line for the huge autumn shipments of wheat. New fertile territories will be opened up and developed, and millions of acres of land hitherto isolated by lack of transportation will be available for settlement. Several lines will also connect the new discovered mineral areas with the main arteries of transportation.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 670, 23 May 1929, Page 11
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140RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT IN CANADA Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 670, 23 May 1929, Page 11
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