Excerpt from Resources of British North America, Vol. 2: A Monthly Review of the Developed and Undeveloped Wealth of the Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland; March, 1904 Even should the terminal sections of the route not be com pleted, the portion of the waterway already in operation will be of increasing importance in the industrial development of middle-north tario. If not a bushel of Manitoba wheat ever moved over the route, there would still be large quantities of local freight. A tributary shore line of some 800 miles, the waterway will give a means of transportation to a country comprising acres, and in that country are valuable resources of timber, iron, building stone and lime, and a great variety of agricultural wealth. Much of this natural production would be inaccessible but for the lake system which forms the chief links in the Trent Valley way. And the farther the waterway is extended the farther such freight can be moved. More than fifty steamers, chiefly passenger and freight combined, are in service every year along the route, and in addition are a great number of barges and rafts. In the season of 1902 there were over lockages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.