The Canadian Pacific has a chain of thirteen hotels supplemented by eleven bungalow camps extending from St. Andrews, New Brunswick, to Victoria in British Columbia. The Canadian National lines operate half as many between Ottawa and the Rockies. Both organizations are most enterprising in selling not merely transportation, but all the attractions, business opportunities, and resources of Canada. Either one will cheerfully locate a newly arrived immigrant on the land, take an American sportsman on a hunting trip, find a factory site or lumber tract for a group of capitalists, or help a bridegroom plan his honeymoon journey. Both are tremendous forces for advertising Canada. Canada’s railroads have made the country. They have always been, and still are, ahead of the population and the traffic. Settlement in Canada has followed, instead of preceding, railroad construction, and the roads themselves have had to colonize the territories served by new lines. Uneconomic railroad building has been a part of the price the Dominion has had to pay, not only for settlers, but also for political unity. Both the Maritime Provinces and British Columbia refused to become parts of the Dominion except on condition that the Ottawa government build railways connecting them with central Canada. From that day to this, political pressure has been the force behind much of the railroad building in the Dominion. The Canada that we know to-day may be said to have had its beginning when the Canadian Pacific Railway was put through to the west coast. In 1880 the job was turned over to a syndicate that soon became world famous. Its contract called for completion of the line in ten years, but it was finished within half that time. This saved British Columbia to the Dominion, and gave the British Empire another link in its world communications, including a direct route through its own possessions to the Far East and Australia. Within two years after it reached the western ocean, the Canadian Pacific began its steamship service to Japan and China, and tapped the Orient for cargoes to furnish traffic on its land line. Sixteen years later it bridged the Atlantic. It now has on both oceans a fleet of more than thirty vessels, including some of the finest passenger steamers afloat. In its lake, river, and coastwise services it operates fifty additional ships. It offers now a favoured route between London and the Far East. The distance from Canton, China, to Liverpool, via Canada, is fifteen hundred miles shorter than by way of San Francisco and New York, and the journey takes much less time than that by the Suez or Panama all-water routes.