A GREAT PROJECT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3029, 28 October 1908, Page 4

A GREAT PROJECT.

According to a cablegram from Ottawa, the other day, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada, has announced that if the revenue continues to increase at the present rate the Georgian Bay canal, twenty feet deep, and costing nine millions sterling, will be begun the moment the Transcontinental Railway is completed. The project is intended to revolutionise the methods of grain transport from the great wheat-grow-ing areas of the North-West to the outer world, and to provide what will not merely be a cheaper route, but an "All British" route for the cereals of the Dominion to the consumers at Home. At the present time Buffalo, in the United States, is the great port of transhipment for export grain from the vast productive area surrounding the Great Lakes. Carried to that point, it is conveyed to the American coast ports. Canada has been seeking to develop methods of transport through her own territory, and from several of the lake ports the grain is carried to Montreal, and there shipped for the ocean voyage. On the eastern shore of Lake Huron there is the great Georgian Bay; and the plan is for the establishment of a waterway, and connecting the bay, by the line of the French River, with Lake Nipissing, and that navigable tract with the Ottawa River, a little above Ottawa city. This route will shorten the journey from the lakes to Montreal by nearly five hundred miles.