The Georgian Bay Canal (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Georgian Bay CanalThe American people have always been interested in the de velopment of the Canadian transportation system. In the meet ings of the National Ship Canal Convention at Chicago in June, 1863, the advantages of the Canadian waterway system were recognized even by those who feared the competition. The Legis lature of Illinois passed, in 1803, a joint resolution appointing commissioners to proceed to Canada to solicit the earnest con sideration and early action upon a subjeclt of great and increasing importance of enlarged and cheaper outlets to tidewater by way of the lakes and rivers and new or enlarged canals of Canada. The great avenue to the Atlantic through the St. Lawrence being once opened to its largest capacity, the laws of trade, which it has never been the policy of the Federal Government to obstruct, will carry the commerce of the Northwest through it. At the Commercial Convention in Detroit in 1805, Mr. Aspinwall of Detroit said the navigation of the St. Lawrence River and canals could be improved to give a safe and clear draught of fourteen feet to tidewater, and that this would be important to the future welfare of the great and growing Northwest. The United States Deep Waterways Commission gave a qualified approval to the Georgian Bay Canal when it said: The function of the Ottawa route is as a future loop line for through business when traffic conditions shall have been sufficiently developed by the Erie Ontario route. The importance of the direct-rail route across Canada is manifested by the growth of the in-transit trade. When, partially through a belief that economic pressure would lead to annexation, there was a proposal to rescind the bonding privilege the outburst of protest from the New England and the Northwestern States showed how important the short lines across Canada were to the welfare of the United States.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.