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© Truth “About the Canadian Northern. i

a By WILLIAM H. MOORE, 4

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Secretary, Canadian Northern: : SEASESEASSSA

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KA RRARDAAAA DARA AS

That the Canadian. Northern Rail- Let’ me explain in a few. words this ‘subvehtions received by ‘the companies
way System has been subsidized ‘in| almost hopelessly ‘misrepresented fea- under control of Mackenzie, Mann. &

- excess of its legitimate requirements ture of the case. Briefly the grants Company, Limited. ,
| ‘and that. moneys voted by Parlia- | were made. between. 1882 and 1890 to}. In assistance of eastern lines, the

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ment to the Canadian Northern Rail-| three companies: The Lake Manitoba Ontario Government. has granted 2,-
way Company have been diverted by Railway and Canal Company, the | 000,000 acres of land, and the Quebec
Messrs. Mackenzie, Mann & Company} Winnipeg ‘and Hudson Bay “Railway |Government .749,540 acres. of land.
for their own private purposes, are Company,.. and. the Manitoba. and | These lands are wooded, and subject-
charges that have been made in the South-Eastern’ Railway | Company, | ed, tocertain restrictions, therefore
public press. These statements have for the construction of certain defin-| they must be considered. in: a different
been previously ” expressed privately, ed lines in. Manitoba, and the then light to the infinitely more valuable
; ‘and the newspapers are now only put- Northwest Territories.” The lands at | prairie lands of Western Canada. For |:
¢ ting into print ideas which. have been. that time had little value, as by reas- example, the Province. of Quebec ad-
repeated — in Canada for ‘some. “years. | on of inadequate transportation. facil- opted the policy many years ago of,| | .
1: propose to attempt an explanation ities there was no eagerness ‘to take giving to grantees. the option of ac-
of these. matters, giving the official up farming in Western Canada, and cepting 52c per acre in cash instead
figures of the case frankly.” under the homestead regulations. the | of the lands, and most of the grant-
There. are few false statements few settlers coming into. the country | ees have preferred the cash. So far,
“made. without some. basis. of. truth, obtained all the land they required | neither the Ontario nor the. Quebec
and. a few misrepresentations which: el the discharge of homestead dut-| lands have been of assistance to. the
have not had a more or. less. suppos- | 1° The promoters, who had. more | companies in securing finance, and re-
edly legitimate origin. The figures confidence than finance, were anxious | main unsettled and unsold. _
that have been quoted in the public for Western development, and hawked|. The bonds of companies constitut-|
press as to the bonds guaranteed, and the charters from one end of Canada |41g the. ‘Canadian: Northern Railway | an
‘subsidies granted ‘to the Canadian | to. the other, seeking, in vain, sup-| System have been’ guaranteed by the| = |
Northern are, as a rule, ‘taken from port from. the. financial interests. | Dominion and. several. Provincial. gov-.
the: official. Blue Books of the Domin- The promoters of the Winnipeg andjernments, and up to December 31,
jon of Canada. “One would naturally Hudson . Bay’ ‘Railway visited New | 1913, the companies have received the | -
‘expect to find these figures an exact. York, London: and: Paris in’a fruitless proceeds of bonds so guaranteed, to}
“account: of. the situation; but curious- endeavor to. arouse an interest in the | the extent. of $131, 322,660. There Gs boo.
‘ly enough, ‘a moment’s reflection may |¥ undertaking. ‘Years. after. the. Jand | no disposition on’: the part of the! |
show ‘that they may fail. to portray grants had been authorized by Par-|company to minimize. the benefits: of-|
correctly. the “relations ‘between - -the | /iament, Messrs. ‘Mackenzie & Mann | these. guarantees, ‘but: it must.‘be: ac- |». EEE Ly Oa em
Canadian | ‘Northern, or any other rail- bought the charters carrying the land knowledged by the company’s bitter- oe ee weed ee oe
way, and public assistance. “There | grants, and built the: railways. They.}est opponents that the guarantees |” ——
‘Have been placed on the statute pooks | did what. the financiers of Canada, of|have in no sense. been subsidies: to. pom
of, Canada millions of dollars of cash | the United States, of England and of | the: company’ s. undertaking, and that tf. .°~~
the continent: had, after careful scrut-. the companies “have faithfully dis | a

subsidies - which have never been earn- ae
‘ed, many of the: subsidized companies iny, ‘repeatedly. refused to, ie vacted charged all of. their. ‘interest. obliga-{}..-
“having passed out: of a eae and | Une | |.tions in connection. with these guar-|fi

and CONTRACTOR —

| Sidney —_ | - | a - ; ‘Saanichton A :

| Estimates. furnished. =

muatantece: was. : that a
as. le: of bonds: secured}
by. first mortgage’ on: “better. ‘terms
a} Te. than | would. have been. possible. other-
1S tained ‘the lands, they. would be: in an : Naren tei oat
it | enviable. position. in. to-day? s..world of | ..
‘ One. would — not: need: to g
in” ‘Canadiar chistory to find
| examples: -of men whe have. done. this

-pranch lines within the re very thing. BRE we
“charged up. ‘by: statisticians, casually ‘However, this was’ not ‘the rsé
: referring. to the: Blue Book 'as against of: action. : The. lands - -were turned
‘constructed , mileage. of the ‘Cana- over. to the Canadian ‘Northern. ‘and |.
“Northern. Railway ‘System. Tt ‘used. for. issuing - “land ‘grant. bonds,
the. misuse, “not. the ‘USE, : of the | Lands: “were. “sold: from | ‘time to’ time
Blue - Books - whieh | has. created _ the at market. value, ‘and . their proceeds |
false. impression. -| applied in’ ‘reduction’ of these bonds.
“So much for. ‘the origin “ot ‘the mis-|Up to. the 81st day of December,
‘representations. that: have taken place. | 1913,. ‘there’ were » issued “$24,000,000
Now. as. to. the. facts:. The. Canadian of land grant bonds. ‘The: land grants
Northern Railway Company. has’ un- made to the company, the charters
der: construction, and expects: to have ‘and: rights. of: which were. secured . by.
‘completed by the ‘end of 1914, 9,843 | Mackenzie, Mann & Company, total |:
miles of railway. ‘There are complet- 4,000,000, acres. The railway com-
-ed 8, 694 miles, and under. operation pany. ‘got the benefit. of. these lands.

7,152 miles. The . completed mileage} It will not be denied that the Can-
“has cost for. construction and: equip- | adian - Norther. ‘Railway has. shared |.
ment ‘to . December 31, 1918, $308,-| in the work. of development. of West-
910,282. From ~ the: ‘Dominion. cand | ern Canada. in. the. days .when. {twas
Provincial “Governments — and». from | needed, when . Western Canada. had
municipalities, “up to the same date, | been for. years. “practically. stagnant.
‘ere have been: received, by. the com- |The. railways in existence atthe ad- |

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Keop all, thie politicians guessing
‘And. ving in the ‘air

By very cautiously. dxprossing ©
Opinions here and there,

And when. one thinks: he has you going aon
“And: ‘safely. on: his side .

That's where. ou. make. _ -eareless

panics forming the Canadian. Northern | vent of: the Canadian’ ‘Northern were |.
Railway. System, whilst. under. the | located in: the. southern portion of ~ showing. ob an
sontrol of Mackenzic, Mann & Com-|Manitoba and the then Territories. | To prove hs guess ts wide, a | _ BALMORAL BuocK one 1103 DoucLas STARET, Nexr Fort et STREET

$20, 02,566," in- cash. “subven-. The... Canadian: “Northern ‘Railway --Vieronta, B.. C. abe nO nee poset

“Into the. “comparatively © Un:
‘and unsettled: country of} the |
hy making for. ‘the Saskatchewan | *
sequently. traversed. the }.
y,. from. the Pas |.

And as for: profits, n never. mind 1 it,
Me dollar. As a fekle. triend.,

pany, !
ions, Or. ‘about: seven: per ‘eent. of the |

total -co8e of the» railway. mileage
These figures ‘are cor
1, the: cash sub- | xiv

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| ‘Bub what's the difference in the ond | ad
ad | Mission’ to E ocky. Mountains, | You: miss the fun and get: ‘the. worry, |g.
millions. of jcrossing the river'eight times in “a Forget. the weak and pet, the strong. go:
od, When ‘pompared. with the distance of one thousand ‘miles, the It you. are always -In.a-hurry
cash subventions “piven. to. either: of company. brought into. the. territory. ‘o. ‘Bec. > the: Profits come: along,
the. other. transcontinental railways,.| tributary to. the. -yailway, ‘sottlers | = i
f .- or when. compared with the total cost | from. the, United Kingdom, ‘the United Pane POULTRY ‘BREE DERS.
“of the work ond the great economic States and: Burope, and: placed: them} ne: ‘British Columbia. Poultry Age
on the land, By reason of tho fertil- sociation, desiring to encourage . the |

a good: which has been and is being ac- - | | — OnE rs : oi oe oes Me a ea ae 2 : : i a
ity of the soil, which was questioned | sale of Provincial bred stock, issue a DR. \ FT or : BO - "LE ce =

“complished: by. the Canadian. Northern

; Railway. system, these figures must | at, that date, tb succeeded in building | directory of all breeders. of all kinds | *
--disabuse the public, mind, of the. idea lwp. a territory. which was: ultimately | ‘of breeds, wisieh whould prove af the |
eo thatthe; Canadian . ‘Northern: has heen. to be. Anown,. in the. expressive nom} greatest, value. both | “to buyers and | $
_ over-subsidized,, ite: honds over-gunt- | enclature. of | the” “company's emigra=latgo to those selling. This” Provinee

canteed, or; to put it mildly, there | tion Ntorature, as 'The: Bread-t upply earlier ~ birds than any | 2
Nas been even: an opportunity, toxree | of the: empire." There have be Jother. part: ol Canada, and. can, with | 2,
JAnvest. the: aubaldies, in outelde vene pended by the: Canadian Northern and | reason’ look’ forward. to a time when |
Aunty fe {ts inaiatirial ‘Ageney, for colonization | the Fast will coma to ‘the West for | ee
even The critic, at thin. pointy n naturally | work, 2,010,000, or an’ equivalent ‘of ‘winning ‘birds In shows" ‘and: Tor “the 5 naan
= aske. Mtiet about” the Jand: prants. [fourteen per: cont. 2: “the! Aolal: cash n | heat. o of the utility elannens ad hae ;