Newfoundland to Cochin China

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Ethel Gwendoline Vincent. Newfoundland to Cochin China

CHAPTER I. OUR PREMIER COLONY

CHAPTER II. THE MARITIME PROVINCES, AND THROUGH LAKE AND FOREST TO THE QUEEN CITY

CHAPTER III. BY THE GOLDEN WAVE TO THE FAR WEST

CHAPTER IV. THE CANADIAN ROCKIES AND THE SELKIRKS

CHAPTER V. TO THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN

CHAPTER VI. NEW NIPPON

CHAPTER VII. THE WESTERN CAPITAL AND INLAND SEA

CHAPTER VIII. THE YELLOW LAND

CHAPTER IX. THE CELESTIAL CITY

CHAPTER X. THE FORBIDDEN CITY

CHAPTER XI. SHANGHAI AND HONG-KONG

CHAPTER XII. COCHIN CHINA

APPENDIX

BRITISH AND AMERICAN TRADE IN CANADA

BRITISH TRADE WITH JAPAN

"BRITISH INTERESTS IN CHINA."

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A long railway journey. The light streaming into the berth of a sleeper of the Intercolonial Railway awakes me, and a few minutes afterwards I emerge from between the curtains, to see the morning sun on the dancing waters of Bedford Basin, the land-locked harbour of Halifax. For about ten miles we are skirting this harbour before running into the town.

Most people would agree in thinking Halifax a charming place. There is nothing in the primitive city, with its straight, narrow streets of wooden houses, most of which require a new coat of paint, to make it so. There are few public buildings worthy of notice. But the charm lies in its position on the peninsula of land, with the deep bend in the North-west Arm on one side, and Chebuctoo Bay on the other, leading into Bedford Basin. Thus there is water on every side.

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There was a long procession of steamers and barges waiting on either side for their turn. It is so shallow that little way can be allowed to the ships in passing in and out, and for two hours and a half we sat and were quite amused watching the skill which packed three large steam barges into this narrow canal. It must not be thought that these steam barges are like our dirty barges on the Thames or on English canals. They have a tonnage of 1500 or 2000 tons, and are as smart as white paint and polished brass can make them, being lighted, too, by electricity.

These great lakes have a complete through connection to the ocean by means of rivers, locks, and canals. Recently the whale-back boat was taken from Chicago by this route to the Atlantic and across to London. But as the commerce from the West increases, the canals will require widening and deepening. This through waterway will have an important bearing on the commercial development of Canada. Its drawback is that from November until April the lakes are frozen. We, who travel through Canada in the summer, forget what a different aspect the country assumes, when for six months of the year it is frost and snow bound.

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