The Great Canadian North West: Its Past History, Present Condition, Glorious Prospects (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Pacific Railway as at present proposed is looked upon with much uneasiness by certain interested American capitalists who now control the avenues Of trade from the West tothe seaboard, and ere long it will be seen how they are at present endeavouring to thwart your efforts to build our national line. I have every reason to believe, from a long residence in the North West and by an intimate acquain tance with the wants of our North-western country, as well as those of the more Western States of America, that many years will not elapse ere it will be found that the produce of the whole North-western country, American as well as Canadian, will seek an independent avenue for transporta tion to the seaboard through Canada. To make this, however, thoroughly and wholly a national success, the line must be altogether through our own territory, and in no way subservient to the wrd of American pools or American speculators. There is very little doubt that means will be found in the future by American trunk lines to tap our great North West. No human agency at the present time can foresee the future necessities that may arise in connec tion with the immense trade that will assuredly be developed in the North West, but you and your colleagues are in my humble Opinion taking the only true course to secure the future interests of Canada, by insisting upon the immediate construction of a thoroughly national line wholly through Canadian territory, which, while thus being placed always under the supreme control and supervision of the Canadian Parliament, will be held responsible and checked if necessary in any attempt to betray the interests Of our own country. Moreover, as you propose to have the road built, it will be a thoroughly independent Canadian line. I feel a deep interest in the welfare of the Canadian North West, having for many years past made it my home, and.

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