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Page 94 - It is quite evident to me," Macdonald replied, "not only from this conversation, but from advices from Washington, that the United States Government are resolved to do all they can, short of war, to get possession of the western territory, and we must take immediate and vigorous steps to counteract them.
Page 130 - Inasmuch as the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have joined in a Declaration that the Construction of the Intercolonial Railway is essential to the Consolidation of the Union of British North America, and to the Assent thereto of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and have consequently agreed that Provision should be made for its immediate Construction by the Government of Canada: Therefore...
Page 19 - That railroads, though constructed by private corporations and owned by them, are public highways, has been the doctrine of nearly all the courts ever since such conveniences for passage and transportation have had any existence. Very early the question arose whether a State's right of eminent domain could be exercised by a private corporation created for the purpose of constructing a railroad. Clearly it could not, unless taking land for such...
Page 12 - There was once a man born at Newcastle-uponTyne, who was a common coal-digger ; this man had an immense constructiveness, which displayed itself in pulling his watch to pieces and putting it together again ; in making a pair of shoes when he happened...
Page 80 - Company in needless outlays and losses greater than all the salaries paid upon the line. The railway satrap sent out by the London Board, whose salary is only exceeded by that of the Governor-General, naturally considers himself the second person in the Province ; and, as a consequence, the special commissioner sent out from the same source, with the salary of the President of the United States, to obtain more money from the Province under the veil of a postal subsidy, would deem himself the second...
Page 78 - ... under the American engineer (who subsequently openly became a partner with the contractors), that the commissioner of public works refused to recommend the issue of the provincial bonds. Here was a fix ! But the contractors sent for their American brother, who, for a brokerage of $100,000 of the first mortgage bonds of the company, undertook to obtain the guarantee. He went to his colleague in the government ; the commissioner of public works was shunted out of office on a suddenly raised issue...
Page 218 - Government for the purpose of insuring that the railways, locomotives, rolling stock, and staff shall be used as one complete unit in the best interests of the State for the movement of troops, stores, and food supplies.
Page 12 - There is a rock to be excavated to a depth of more than sixty feet, there are embankments to be made nearly to the same height, there is a swamp of five miles in length to be traversed, in which if you drop an iron rod it sinks and disappears : how will you do all this ?' and receiving no answer but a broad Northumbrian, ' I can't tell you how I'll do it, but I can tell you I will do it,' dismissed Stephenson as a visionary.
Page 129 - Territory, and the improvements required for the development of the trade of the Great West with the Seaboard, are regarded by this Conference as subjects of the highest importance...
Page 117 - I believe that many in this room will live to hear the whistle of the steam engine in the passes of the Rocky Mountains and to make the journey from Halifax to the Pacific in five or six days.
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| Title | The Canadian Railway Problem |
| Author | Emerson Bristol Biggar |
| Publisher | Macmillan Company of Canada, limited, 1917 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Sep 27, 2007 |
| Length | 258 pages |
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