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WILD HORSE RAPIDS, ENGLISH RIVER, NEAR THE JUNCTION OF THE LAKE
SUPERIOR BRANCH, G.T.P., WITH THE MAIN LINE

In more than one #qp>osse
way Prince Rupert |
is unique. It is one
of the first cities of
America, and the
very first in Can-
ada, to be planned
on paper before a
single important
building is built.
By the time this
reaches the reader,
lots in this model
Gling) willeean. all
probability be on
the market, and each and every man
who has the price can buy a lot until
the surveyed section shall have been
sold. Naturally this being the last
town, the lots will be more expensive
than in intermediate towns, but by
the same token they will be more like-
ly to sell at an advance, for this

‘city’? is sure to happen. Prince
Rupert is bound to be on the ‘All
Red Route’’ round the world, and

the all red route is sure to come,

sooner or later. It is only a few years
since it required a week to cross the
399

THE FIRST GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC
RAILWAY STATION—PORTAGE
LA PRAIRIE

eontinent by regu-
laretrame: Ll  ex-
pect within the
next seven years to
go from London
to Prince Rupert
in less than seven
days. Two Ameri-
ean lines’ eover
1,000 miles in 1,081
minutes, averaging
nearly sixty miles
an hour. At half
that speed, the
Grand Trunk Pa-
cific trains wvuld go from ocean
to ocean in .a_ fraction more
than three days, leaving four days
for the sea voyage. Even with the
new Atlantic liners steaming through
the sea at over half a mile a minute,
it takes nearly ten days to go from
London to San Francisco, Seattle or
Vancouver. Moreover, when a ship
sets sail from Prince Rupert, she will,
in an hour’s time, be out in the open
sea and half a thousand miles, a full
day’s sail, nearer Yokohama than a
ship sailing at the same time from

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