The third great Canadian Railway and youngest of the three, the Canadian Northern, is forging ahead at a marvellous rate. The pioneers of the Canadian Pacific struck through 3,000 miles of country practically unpopulated, always with the Pacific as the object of their ambition. The Canadian Northern promoters also had from the first in view the construction of a trans-continental line, but their policy was not quite the same as that of the C.P.R. founders. Their idea was to make their line pay from the first by creating passenger and freightage traffic as they went. This meant that the trans-continental ideal must wait for realisation while the profit producing sections of the line were establishing their earning capacity. The policy of the C.N.R. has steadily justified itself. The main lines have been constructed section by section, with branch lines striking out from them, each branch line opening up productive new country. The Canadian Northern has specialised, so to speak, on the Prairie Provinces, with Winnipeg as its centre of operations, and the development of the West is largely due to the enterprise of the C.N.R. It has linked up the West with the northern part of Ontario, and its lines are ministering alike to the agricultural prosperity of the West and the manufacturing and commercial prosperity of the East. The C.N.R. runs through great forest regions and makes the most of the lumber traffic. At Prince Albert, for instance, in the centre of Saskatchewan, it has opened up an area of forest country into which the widening stream of immigrants is always flowing. Prince Albert—as I know from a Prince Albertian I met on the homeward voyage—believes that it is “It.” Its ambition is to be a great distributing centre for a territory as large as France and at the same time a magnificent residential city on a site beautiful for situation. The mills of the Prince Albert Lumber Company are the largest in Canada, driven by electrical power supplied at an incredibly cheap rate. The C.N.R. figures largely at Port Arthur, on the western shore of Lake Superior, one of the great twin grain ports where hundreds of thousands of bushels of the prairie crops are annually shipped. Port Arthur owes its great and growing prosperity largely to the C.N.R., which has there an elevator capable of storing 7,250,000 bushels of wheat. A 5,000-ton steamer can lie alongside the elevator and be loaded up within an hour or two and steam through the Great Lakes with its food freight to the most important points in Canada and the United States. The C.N.R., again, opens up new country in British Columbia, and is certain to capture a very lucrative trade in that most beautiful Province.