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Title: Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Hopkins, J. Castell (John Castell), 1864-1923
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Publisher: Toronto : Linscott Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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tween Montreal and LakeSuperior is 1,550 feet above the sea, or about 950feet above Lake Superior. The highest betweenLake Superior and Red River is 1,560 above sealevel. The maximum grade in either directionbetween Montreal and Lake Superior is one percent, and the minimum curvature six degrees.Between Lake Superior and the Rocky Mountainsthe maximum grade going west is, with oneexception, one per cent. That exception is agrade starting from Medicine Hat station. Goingeast, the maximum is forty feet as far as Winni-peg and twenty-six feet on to Lake Superior.The highest elevation reached between Montrealand the Pacific is 5,996 feet above the sea, in theKicking Horse Pass in the Rocky Mountains.The maximum grade in the mountains is 4.50 per100, and occurs at the Kicking Horse Pass. Thehighest bridge on the line is over Stoney Creek,on the western slope of the Selkirk Range, whichis spanned by a 336 feet steel arch bridge, therailway passing over at 300 feet above the bed ofthe creek.
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/L Z Y, •y. ;^ CANADA AND THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY THE EDITOR. THE construction of the Canadian Pacifictrans-continental Line constituted one ofthe epoch-making events in Canadianhistory. The British conquest, the warof 1812, the confederation of the Provinces, thecreation of the national policy of protection, thebuilding of the Canadian Pacific Railway, thegranting of a fiscal preference to British goods—these are the periods into which the life of theDominion naturally and principally divides itselfThe history of the great undertaking from 1872to 1886, with all its fluctuations of trial andtriumph, need not be more than referred to here.But when once fairly started, its success in bothconstruction and operation was rapid and com-plete. The work often years, under the manage-ment of Sir George Stephen (now Lord MountStephen), Sir W. C. Van Home and others, wasaccomplished in half that time, and since 1885the British port at Halifax and the Pacific harbourand City of Vancouver

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