PORT OF MONTREAL
NEW RECORD PROBABLE, MONTREAL. Activities of the Port of Montreal this year promise to establish a new high record. Navigation out of the Port officially closes on December 1 in preparation for the freeze-up of the St. Lawrence river and already the personnel of the various liners are bidding their farewells as they depart on their last trans-Atlantic voyage of the season from this Port. During winter months, the. Canadian ports of Halifax and Saint. John on the Atlantic coast are the Canadian terminals for the cross-Atlantic lines and those operating to the British West Indies. Australia, New Zealand and other points. With navigation having opened this year on April 18 the number of vessels entering and clearing from this port up to the first of November was 10,021 of 15,136.383 net tons. This compares with 8,764 vessels during the whole of last year with a tonnage of 14,359,345. Cargo tonnage handled amounted to 14.356.882 tons as compared with 14,222,363 tons last year and the number of passengers landed and embarked totalled 158,219.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1939, Page 6
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176PORT OF MONTREAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1939, Page 6
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