Speaking for himself and also voicing the views of Sir Donald Mann and Third Vice-President D. B. Hanna, Sir William Mackenzie contended that the “C.N.R.” was destined to be an essential factor in the expansion of this country and that in the opinion of the transportation experts who had examined the situation, their properties would be particularly useful in the reconstruction days on which this land must soon enter. He said his associates had devoted the best of their years in developing the system to the present state of efficiency and confidently relied on the future to justify their work and estimates of values. ❦ ❦ ❦ As anticipated, since this resume was set in type, the Government of the Dominion of Canada has assumed control of the Canadian Northern Railway and operation of the system will at once be undertaken by a board of eight representative gentlemen with a practical and experienced railroader, Mr. D. B. Hanna, as President, who will have associated with him Graham A. Bell, Major, Deputy Minister of Railways A. J. Mitchell, Ottawa E. R. Wood, Toronto, Capitalist Robert Hobson, Hamilton, Ironmaster Frank P. Jones, Montreal, Manager Canada Cement Company A. T. Riley, Winnipeg, Financier C. M. Hamilton, Weyburn, Sask., Agriculturist A TENDERFOOT IN TEMISKAMING And the silent places beyond awaiting the iron horse [Illustration: River Drivers on the Montreal River, Temiskaming, Northern Ontario.] Marketing the jubilant flag pole and Christmas tree is a comparatively unhackneyed commercial twist not overdone and if discontented dwellers in old Ontario, seigneurial Quebec or the world at large, like that prospect or court a change from brick and asphalt to the silent places, opportunity beckons to them from amidst the serried ranks of raw material swarming over the hilly, rock-ribbed areas of Temagami, the dales of Temiskaming and Porcupine’s budding principality of golden promise. As the newcomer’s eyes view the sea of tapering masts--shorn of drapery in winter--and the springtimes’ green undergrowth crowning summits and slopes, which in that corner of the Canadian hinterland undoubtedly conceal unconjectured lodes of mineral wealth, his brain tabulates new and fascinating impressions respecting this vast heritage and pregnant land of the future.