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 To HIS liXCIlLLENCY THE GOJ'ERNOR C.liNERAL IN 
 f COUNCIL. 
 
 This ^Petition of the Great American and European Short Line (Railway 
 Company jh'miilv shiavktii : 
 
 ^^^- — Tliat your petitioner is a Company diil)- incorporated and or^'anized under ,in Act of 
 the iJoniinion I'.irlianient passed Ji\\ May, lS<S2. 
 
 2nd. — Tiiat it is also incorporated i)y an Act of the Colony of the Tarliaipcnt of Newfoundland. 
 3rd. — That the object of the .said Acts is the formation and construction of a National 
 Trunk Air Line under one niana<,a-ment, from the ternn'ni of the Canadian .Systems at Montrea', 
 throut,rh the I'rovince of Quebec, across the State of Maine, throu^di the Provinces of New 
 lirunswick, Nova Scotia ami Cape Hreton, and the Colony of NeuToundlaml to a point on its 
 Eastern Coast, above the ice and fog limits, thereby giving; the shortest and .safest transit to 
 I'.urojie; drawing the bonds between the Dominion and Newfoundland closer and closer, and 
 making the Maritinu' Provinces the [.,'reat highway between the ICastern and Western Continents. 
 
 4th. — That your Petitioner has not sufficient data .in*^ regard to the Cape North and New- 
 foundland portions of its line to undertake their construction at once, but proposes to build in the 
 meantime in the Island of Cape Hreton only its branch to Sydney or Louisburg, therel))- 
 forming a continuous Air Line from .Montreal to Louisbur'^ 
 
 5th. -That the total length of this Air Line is about 764 miles; and that at the jjresent 
 time, there are on different portions of it, but owned and controlled by separate companies, 
 some 308 miles in operation, and 109 miles under construction. 
 
 <5th. — That your Petitioner proposes to acijuire these portions, either i)y purchase or other- 
 wise, and consolidate them into its own Company. 
 
 7th. — 'I'hat the negotiations for tin- acquisition of ti.e completed portions are so far advanced 
 that your Petitioner is in a position to begin the immediate construction of the links neccssar>- 
 to connect them. 
 
 8th.— Your Petitioner would call your special attention to the fact that it is now construct- 
 ing some 90 miles of its Railw.iy in Nova Scotia under a contract made with ^'our (Government 
 on July 2Sth, 18.S2. 
 
 9th.— That by the completion of its Line across Maine, it will connect with Lines already 
 in operation, and become the Royal Mail route to the Maritime Provinces and ICurope. 
 
 10th.— That the completion of the construction and consolidation of Lines on the proposed 
 route, as contemplatcxl by this Company (\'our Petitioner), is of the greatest National importance. 
 Spcond only to that of the Canadian Pacific, and it will be the natural extension of that road and 
 of the Intercolonial to the winter Seaports of the Maritime Provinces. 
 
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 nth. — Your Petitioner hcliovcs that the completion of its system through Cape Breton v^,, 
 have a f^rcater tendency to draw tlie Colony of N'cwfoumiland into the Dominion than any otii 
 argument that can he used. Refc 
 
 ;2tli. — Vour Petitioner desires most respectfully to call your attention to the UlfferenJfvernni 
 hetween the subsidies granted to the Canadian Pacific, and in fact to all other railways built in tw'^'^'"^ ^ 
 Dominion, and to the subsidy under which this Comjwny is building and asking for. ' '''^^ 
 
 ijth.— ^'our Petitioner theref<Me prays that you will grant it a casji subsidy to aid in t**^''-'''^'!'''^ 
 completion of its Lines proportionate to their relative cost of construction, as follows : — I'or v , T ^^^ 
 construction and comjiletion of tho.se jiortions of its Air Line between Montreal and Louisbii^'^'Ction 
 nut to e.Nceed 295 miles, the sum of ($r, 200,000) one million two hundred thou.sand dolKi""''natic 
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 a. — In the I'rovince of Quebec, between Marie-ville and Lennoxville, about 55 miles,) Accoi 
 Sinn of $3,200 per mile, a total of .t 176.000. 'to Mont 
 
 />. — In the I rovince of New lirunswlck, between ]'"redericton and Buy Verte, about i^nncctior 
 miles, the sum of $3,200 per mile, a total of $3X4,000. At CI 
 
 c. — In the Province of Nova Scotia, between Bay Verte and Pugwash, about 40 miles, t*"*-' ^''id c 
 sum of $3,200 per mile, a total of $128,000. At L( 
 
 (/. — -In the Island of Cape Breton, between the Straits of Canso and Sydney or Louisbu- C)., on t 
 about So miles, the sum of $6,400 per mile, (as the cost of construction will there be more tl ''rom 
 double the other portions specified,) a total of $512,000. ' ^'•-'^^ Bi 
 
 14th. — Your Petitioner further prays that you will grant it an adequate Postal subsid) At H( 
 the carriage of Mails, after the completion of its Line to Houlton. ^""' ' h- 
 
 15th. — Your Petitioner further prays that you will grant it free running powers over* the Ver 
 Intercolonial Kailway, between Salisbury and Painsec Junction, at which points it intersects mileage 
 joins that Railway. ^'''^"i 
 
 16th. — Your Petitioner further pra>-3 that yau will grant it a cash subsidy for the constructed them 
 of a Line from a point, either at the Straits of Canso, or on its Line to Louisburg, in the direc;^ t^ii-- St. 
 of Whycoqamah and Cape North, not to exceed 30 miles, a sum of $6,400 per mile, a tota 
 $ 1 82,000. 
 
 And your I'etitioner, as in dutj- bound, will ever pray, &c., Slc. 
 
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 Referring to the petition of this Company, asking,' for certain subsidies, from the Dominion 
 to the (lifferci!^9v«^''""it;iit. to aid in the completion of its projected Railway from Montreal through the I'ro- 
 ;ilways built iti tl('^'^"« of (Juebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, to Louisburg, Cape Mreton. 
 jy for. * ^ ''''^^^ the honor to submit a map of tiie route with tables showing its length and the saving 
 
 bsidy to aid in i^' distances over all other existing, projected or possible lines. 
 
 follows :- -I'or v ,, T'l'-' route as shown having been adopted by the directorate of my Company, and its con- 
 
 >al and L«>uisbiit>^'Ction determined upon, provided the aid asked for is granted, I have i)repared for your 
 
 thousand dolia»^''''"'it'0" a brief statement of the details of its location, and the advantages which we consider 
 
 : will be to the whole Dominion of Canada. 
 
 .bout 55 miles, t According to the arrangements which have been perfected, our trains will run out of and 
 
 ito Montreal over the tracks of the South l^astern Railway, as far as Chambly, and make close 
 
 Verte, about i^pnection Mith the Canadian Pacific over the new bridge. 
 
 At Chambly we will acquire the branch which the South Eastern have built as far as Maric- 
 ibout 40 miles, t'll*^ '"^^ complete it to Lenno.wille. 
 
 At T.ennowille we acquire the International Railway as far as constructed to Moose River, 
 Ineyor Louisbii- ^^ "" the western border of Maine. 
 
 rhere be more tl ''"•'oni this point we will build across the State of Maine to Houlton, on the western border 
 
 f New Brunswick. 
 
 Postal subsid) At Houlton conn<:ction will -be made with New Brunswick Railway for St. Andrews and St. 
 
 jhn. The ciistance from Montreal to St. Andrews will thus be 385. against 340 miles to Boston 
 
 ig powers over a the Vermont Central, and 300 to I'ortland via the Cirand Trunk Railway, but these differences 
 
 Its it intersects : mileage as against our line will be more than compensated bx- our low grades and flat curves. 
 
 }-'rom Houlton we will run ovci the New Brunswick Railway to Woodstock Junction, and 
 
 for the construcictti them acquire the Fredericton Branch of that Railway to Gibson, opposite Fredericton, 
 
 lurg. in the direc:i the St. John River. 
 
 per mile, a tota I""'''""" Cibson we will build to Salisbury, a Station on the Intercolonial Railway, and thence 
 e will run through Moncton over that Railway to Painsec Junction. 
 
 At Moncton we will make connections with trains from Quebec and St. John, and for 
 
 alifa.v. From Painsec Junction we will build to the Kastern Border of New ]3runswick, near 
 
 wrt Line (Ry. iki Verte. at which place comiection will be made with the Cape Tormentine Railway for 
 
 rince I'.dward Island. 
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 - and OWl Manage: ^''■'"" ^^'"''' "^^^^"^ ^^'^ ^^'^' ^^"''^^ ^^ Pugwasli, Nova Scotia, where we join our line now under 
 
 instruction to New (ilasgow. 
 
 From New (ilasgow we will acciuire the Halifax and Cape Breton Railway now in opera- 
 m to the Straits of Canso. 
 
 The Straits, at the location of the proposed ferry, are about j./oo feet wide, are never 
 izm over and remarkably free from ice. Through cars will be crossed upon boats built 
 i^fessly for that purpose, as is done at many places in the United States. 
 ; *^Froin the Straits of Canso we will build over the mo.st practicable and .idvantageous route 
 
 ^ harbor of Syilncy or Louisburg. These ports are already connected by a railway which 
 lA-oposc to ac(|uire. 
 
 The niilo in uperatit>n, under contract and remaining to be built are .shown in table "A" 
 j^ed, and if the subsidy asked for be granted, the entire line between Montreal and Louis- 
 will be In operation by Januarj^ 1st, 1885. 
 
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 Our Company was formed for the purpose of building^ and operating a Railway from 
 Montreal to Cape-North, in the Island of Cape-Breton, nmning a lino of steamers thence to 
 Cape-Ray, the nearest point in Newfoundland, and constructing a road across that Island to 
 lionavista on its extreme eastern coast in order to obtain the shortest ])ossible ocean route to 
 Kurope for the transportation of passengers and mails from a point vvliich should be above and 
 beyond the fog and ice linn'ts, that renders the passage which all steamers have to make from 
 off Cape-Race, Newfoundland, tt) the Atlantic ports, so dangerous. 
 
 However it is not the intention of my Con)pany to undertake the construction of the Cape- 
 North and Newfoundland portions of its projected line until further investigations are made in 
 regard to its practical abilit\', but to accpiire and construct the shortest possible line from 
 Montreal to Louisburg, Cape Breton, as marked upon the accompanying maj), and it is for 
 that purpose only that assistance is now asked. 
 
 I need scarcely call j-our attention to the fact that at the present day, only that rou'e 
 whicli insures the shortest and quickest transit can succes.sfuUy comi)cte with all rivals in 
 the matter of mails and passengers, and up to a certain distance ( wliic'n is yearly becoming 
 greater) of freight as well. The enormous volume of traffic between Western Canada and 
 Kurope will naturally find its way by that route in the case of mails and passengers, which 
 makes the quickest time between the Continents- — and in the case of freights by that route 
 which gives the shortest distance to the sea board. 
 
 It is with a view of showing the advantages of our Line in tjiesc respects that the annexed 
 table of distances " B. &• C." is submitted. That table will hold good for all points west of 
 Montreal, as all traffic nvst pass through that city. 
 
 I think that our Line meets the wishes of all Canadians who favor a National Port as 
 compared to an American one and who prefer that Canadian freights, passengers and mails 
 should be shipped and received at their own Ports rather than at those of the United States. 
 
 The Maritime Provinces are practically .separated, so far as qu'ck Railway transit is 
 concerned, from Western Canada by the geographical intrusion of the State of Maine. Still 
 more b\' the fact that the shortest routes to the Canadian .sea boards (as shown b\- the map) are 
 occupied in part by separate small companies and being operated for Local purposes they only 
 act as feeders for American roads. 
 
 None of those Companies po.ssess the strength necessary to construct the roads which 
 would unite them. 
 
 This my Company proposes to undertake, and to acquire as many of those smaller roads 
 as lie in its projected route, to consolidate them into its own sjstem, and to operate them as a 
 National Trunk Line. 
 
 Vou will also observe that, as our road will directly compete with all lines leading to 
 American Ports, its business will be essentially Canadian. 
 
 By our route the fine harbors of St. John and St. Andrews will be brought (within a- few 
 miles) as near to Montreal, as the nearest American Harbors of Portland and Boston are to that 
 city— so that similar freight rates can be offered by our road and the business kept in Canadian 
 Territory. 
 
 While these Ports will be the natural outlet for Canadian freight.s, Louisburg which 
 possesses one of the finest land-locked harbors in the Dominion, and open all the year around 
 will be the port for the shipment and reception of mails, passengers, and express freights to and 
 from Europe. . . • 
 
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 By our line the Island of Cape Breton will be given a railway communication with the rest 
 o Canada, and ,ts wonderful mineral deposits open for development, ^ut this can only be 
 afforded ti,em-from a commerei4l point of view-by a Con.pany building and ooerating as we 
 propose a great through line. • o . e, 
 
 Assuming that railway travel is. faster than steamer in the proportion of three to one, and 
 the speed of an. express mail train at 45. and that of h steamer at 15 nnles per hour-such a train 
 would run from Louisburg to Montreal in 17 hours, while a steamer would take 70 hours Thnt 
 .s. .f a steanv bound for Montreal would touch at Sydney or Lpuisb.rg to land her mail and 
 I.asse.,gers, th , would be in Montreal S3 hours, or over two days ahead of tiiat steamer The 
 converse ,s also true as mails and passengers would be enabled to leave two days after a 
 steamer had left Montreal and catch her at Sydney or Louisburg while she is coaling there 
 
 In hko manner in a steamer bound for St. John or St. Andrews, mails and passengers landed 
 1^ Lomsburg would reach P4ontreal in 36 hours, and if bound for Halifax, ,7 ho^rrs quicker 
 than if landed at those Torts. M ^'^>- 
 
 Comparing our line and time from Louisburg with the present ones from Halifax as a 
 wmter route for mails and passengers, you will ascertain that we will .save 29 hours in 'their 
 transit to and from Montreal. 
 
 We therefore feel no hesita.,cy in asking aid from the Dominion Government to complete 
 our system as an undertaking of National importance to Canada for the followin^r reasons : -- 
 
 ist-Hecause we will join the railway systems of Central with Eastern Canada by the 
 shortest possible Ime. ^ 
 
 -'nd-Because we will open the ports on her own seaboard nearest to her railway and com- 
 mercial centres for the shipment and reception of her freights. 
 
 3rd-Because we willcreate in her territory the universal route and short line for mails and 
 passengers to and from I'.urope. 
 
 4th -Because we will bring all the Capitals of her Maritime Provinces the nearest possible 
 to her own Capital. ' 
 
 5th-Bccause we will complete the complement of her Pacific Railway to the Atlantic Occin 
 and form with it a grand continuous and short railway line between the most extreme ports 'in 
 her Dominion. ' 
 
 hetu'^'n wT'^'V""' ''"^' ^^; V";'f "'' '"'-^ ^"■""^^'-^ " ^■"^''^^ expansion of trade of all kinds 
 between Western Canada and the Maritime Provinces. 
 
 Hoping then that the Government may consider the completion of a trunk line of 800 miles 
 of railway m its territory as proposed by us of sufficient national importance to grant the aid 
 asked for. t, ^ i<. 
 
 I have the honor to be 
 
 Most respectfully 
 
 Your ob't servant, 
 
 ruiiWAKii, N. .s., Ainil 17, 1883. 
 
 To THE IIox. SlK Cir.VKl.ES TUI'IEK, K.C.B. 
 
 Minister of KailuHiys und Canals, 
 
 CHARLES L. SXOW, 
 
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 Mllox 
 
 iiiiilur 
 
 rmistructio!!. 
 
 iMIIofi 
 
 If> III! 
 
 r(iiii|i1otvrl. 
 
 Toliil PistauwJ 
 
 I'rciin 
 
 Mq/ilreHl. 
 
 (,)uf lire 
 
 MoMlii'iil 
 
 MiMisr lii\i-r, r. ( 
 
 fid'llltoll 
 
 Mail- VlUc 
 
 ... MiHor liiv.l, I'.O.. 
 
 1 . . [IllllIlMll 
 
 IGU 
 1311 
 •JJl 
 1711 
 
 7:! 
 On 
 
 no 
 iia 
 
 so 
 
 IKO 
 
 .Mllilir 
 
 •im 
 
 Niw I'liiiiisw icTv , . 
 
 . . . ISiiiu Vciti' 
 
 t,H 
 
 
 
 HH4 
 
 ('ii|ii' lUvloii 
 
 ' alisd 
 
 . . . ■l.ouihliurj; 
 
 7ril 
 
 . ■ 
 
 
 
 Tntiils 
 
 7M 
 
 278 
 
 ]3;J 
 
 353 
 
 764 
 
 TutuI ilistiiiicr IVoiii Miiiitrniil fu Luuiiibuig 78i 
 
 111 npeia'-oii "27^ 
 
 riKii-rfiiiitiH.t l:!H 
 
 Totiil ill ii|ii laiimi .laii. Isi, ISsJ 411 
 
 Hiilaiice to tduiiilcU' 
 
 353 
 
 TABLE "B." 
 
 f'omparah're Stateinent of distances of present and proposed 
 
 MOXTHKAI, —AMI— ST. ANDREWS. 
 
 Via G. T., l.C.Ry., St. .Ti.liii and fiivuid SoiiOnni 8:!r. x'iT.'iO 
 
 " U. T., I. C. I!v.. iiivii'i-c ilii Lc'iip mill N. H. l!y u(i2 '• 
 
 •■ (i.T., (Diiiivilli'.TiJhH'ion,) li.MM. mill N. 1! Ky :a\ •' 
 
 " Miiiniitic Hi.itic, (Viilliiwiiiiikcii;;,) li. M. miil X. li. liy :!70 " 
 
 ' O-t. A. and E. Short Line, (Houlton ,) mid N. I!. Ity 385 
 
 MONTREAL —ami— ST. JOHN. 
 
 Via G T. and I. 0. Ry.. T l.". x ■.'.Tin 
 
 •• (i. 'IV, 1. C. ]{y., Rivii'ii' ilii Lniiji mill N Jl. I!y .".«■'< 
 
 •' (i. T. (Oaiivirio.Jimrlioii.) li. & ,M.. mid S|. .lulm mid Miiiiic itX^t " 
 
 Minaiitii- Riiiiti, 15. i .M. mid SI. .I.ilin mid XIaiiii- 412 •' 
 
 •' at. A. and E. Short Line (Houlton,) N. ii. aud St. Joim mid .Maim-. . . . 410 " 
 
 MONTREAL — .\xi.~ jroN'C'l'ON. 
 
 Vin G. T. nnd I. C. Ry WW 
 
 f' G T., !.(.'. liv., RiviiTir dii Loup, N. 1!. Rv. (WiKHlstuck .Jiiiiclidii,) nnd (Irt. A. 
 
 iiml /':. S. L. 11,1 .' OK' 
 
 " G. T.. liosloii and .Miiiiu'. St. .1. and M.. and I. <,'. Rv 675 
 
 « Mii;aiitii Rnutr, I! and M., St. ,J. and M..and 1. C Ry r.l2 
 
 •' at. A. and E. Short Line Ry..., 476 
 
 MONTKKAL * — ..^Nn— HA 1,1EAX. 
 
 Via InlcivDliiMial Hailwav SJ.", x 'J.lHd 
 
 " (iiaiid TnuiU anil St. J.iliu S'i'J " 
 
 •• l(ivii:rr dii T;iiiii.. di. .1. ,ind E. S. I,. /{,, , and I. V. Rv Mnn " 
 
 •' Mr;;mitir Rout,,, and St. .foliii and I. 0. Rv Tnii « . 
 
 " at. A. and E. Short Line mid I. C. Ity e53 •' 
 
 MON'J'RE.VL — \sn— LLUISIUnUi. 
 
 Via EC Rv.iuidTinii. Wl x 2,2 Ki 
 
 '■ " ( ixtord and (.V. .1. ./)!./ A-;. S. /, , 'Mi " 
 
 •■ IliviiVcdu Limp and ^'^ .1. <iii.l I'.. S. I. i<W) " 
 
 " at A. and E. a^ort Line Ry 764 x 2,340 
 
 Iioiites 
 
 LIVEIirOOL. 
 
 Mll.KS. 
 
 11. .")!;,'"> 
 3,2y.^ 
 ;i,27.t 
 :>. inn 
 3,115 
 
 LIVERPOOL 
 
 :i,4«5 
 
 :i,;i25 
 n.i.vj 
 3,150 
 
 LlVEIIl'OOL. 
 
 :;,::2.'> 
 
 3,3+2 
 :i,2HII 
 J, I HO 
 
 3,133 
 
 LIVKRl'OO' 
 
 :i,2n4 
 :!,i:in 
 3,004 
 
 ""^ 
 
J)lM(anc*s saved h,i GBEAT AMERICAN rf; EUROPIUK SHORT LINE 
 
 over Existing Roufrs. 
 
 HKTWEEX 
 
 Milox saved. 
 
 Miiiitrcal ami Frcilciii^ton., 
 " St. Aiidivws. 
 
 St. .IdIui 
 
 MnllCtull 
 
 Oliarloltftowi), I'.K.I. (C'apf Toniipiititip) 
 
 I'ii'tou 
 
 Haliliix ....'..,, 
 
 1 .oulsburg or Sy duey .' .' „ 
 
 ' - - % >! > ■ '*^ 
 
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