From the foregoing figures it will be seen that, whilst in 1852 Canada could only boast of thirty miles of railway, she has now, including the railways of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, 2,495 miles. The population of the dominion is estimated at 4,000,000, so that, with the exception of the United States, which possess a little more than a mile of railway for about every thousand inhabitants, the rate of Canada, which is nearly five-eighths of a mile for the same proportion of population, shows a greater mileage system per head of population than any other country. The following is the length and cost of the several railways in the dominion:— Name. Length in miles. Cost. Grand Trunk 1,377 £16,583,033 Great Western 345 4,901,892 Northern 97 1,121,462 Brockville and Ottawa 86½ 534,657 Prescott and Ottawa 54 412,808 Port Hope, Lindsay, and Beaverton 43 327,437 Port Hope and Peterboro’ 13 82,191 Cobourg and Peterboro’ 14 184,931 London and Port Stanley 24½ 212,229 Welland 25½ 333,460 Carillon and Grenville 13 19,536 St. Lawrence and Industrie 12 11,116 Stanstead, Shefford, and Chambly 44 249,862 Nova Scotia 133 1,300,000 New Brunswick 214 1,700,000 —————— ———————————— 2,495½ £27,974,614 The magnificent harbour of Halifax—than which there is none finer in the world—will, on the completion of the Intercolonial Railway, be the Atlantic terminus of the Canadian system of railways—a system that will yet extend across the Rocky Mountains to British Columbia; and there, ere long, will be seen the lumber from New Brunswick, Maine, and Canada, the beef, pork, wheat, flour, and corn of Western Canada and the Western States, with the other products— From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the northland, From the land of the Ojibways, From the land of the Dacotahs, From the mountains, moors, and fenlands, all being transhipped for consumption in our Cis-Atlantic markets.