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Van Horn's car, the 'Saskatchewan, by the 8 p.m. train on the 15th September, we passed Ottawa at 11.35 p.m. At North Bay, which is a divisional terminus, the line touches Lake Nipissing, where there is a flourishing settlement, the land being of a fair quality. The line is laid with steel rails, about 56 lbs. to the lineal yard, and with ties about 2,640 to the mile.
The original contract with the Canadian Pacific had provided for an eastern terminus near Lake Nipissing, in order to show preference neither to Montreal nor Toronto, either of which could make connections by independent roads. Similarly, we shall see, thirty years later, Moncton was chosen as a terminus of the National Transcontinental, to hold the balance even between Halifax and St John.
Through the Nipissing, the Athabasca, the Edmonton, came the Free Traders men who traded independently. These the Company could not control, so it competed and to its credit its competition has held its own.
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