BUSY PORT
THOUSAND MILES FROM SEA. MONTREAL, Canada. The Port of Montreal, Canada’s eastern metropolis, is the largest inland port in the world. Located on the St Lawrence river, it is still one of the busiest seaports in the world. It is the gateway to the St Lawrence seaway which leads to the Great Lakes and the granaries of the Canadian West as well as the mid-western centres of the United States. For a period of under five months annually the St Lawrence channel is icebound and the port is idle but from early Spring until the first signs of winter appear, the port is a hive of industry. During the month of May, inward cargo tonnage at the port of Montreal, was estimated at 1,609,094 tons, an increase of 213,210 tons over that of May last year. Outward cargo tonnage amounted to 951,791 tons, an increase of 197,443 tons. The number of vessels’ entered at the port during May totalled 960, an increase of 215 over May, 1937, while the vessels cleared number 819, an increase of 295.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1938, Page 7
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179BUSY PORT Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1938, Page 7
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