Grants one-quarter of all the land reverts to the Province, as also
one-quarter of the water front after the townsite has been laid out.

The title to the land acquired in the interest of the railway
company has been vested in the Grand Trunk Pacific Devel-
opment Company, Limited, a holding company organized for
the purpose, among other things, of exploiting, developing and
disposing of townsite lands along the Grand Trunk Pacific Rail-
way, all of the stock of which is held by the Grand Trunk Pacific
Railway Company.

An agreement was made between the Grand Trunk Pacific
Development Company, Limited, and the Provincial Govern-
ment, determining the division of the water front as indicated
on the accompanying plan, which assures to the public free access
thereto at all times. It will be the policy of the Company to
make long-term leases of water-front facilities rather than to
make sale thereof.

Probably never before has there been so much money and time
expended in the planning of a new city as has been. devoted to the
preliminary work at Prince Rupert, not only by the Railway Com-
pany, but by the Dominion and Provincial Governments as well.
This work was commenced in May, 1906, when the Company’s
staff of engineers made a landing and clearing for the location of
their camp preparatory to making the preliminary survey, after
which time the work of surveying and clearing was carried
on continuously, until a complete topographical survey was made
of all lands comprised in the townsite covering an area of 2,000
acres, and great care was taken with this work on account of
the important bearing it would have upon the final laying out of
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The Dominion Government Hydrographic Survey has made a
complete survey of Prince Rupert Harbor and approaches, which
shows that the entire harbor from the entrance to the extreme
end of the upper harbor, a distance of 14 miles, is entirely free
from rocks or obstructions of any kind and of a sufficient depth
to afford good anchorage.

The entrance is perfectly straight, 2,000 feet in width at the
narrowest part, with a minimum depth of 36 feet at low tide, and
for a width of 1,500 feet the minimum depth is 60 feet. The Brit-
ish Survey Ship “Egeria,” which made the survey of the outer
approaches to the harbor, reported a splendid entrance through
Brown’s Passage. .

Messrs. Brett & Hall, of Boston, Mass., trained in that school
of landscape architectural design which claims F. L. Olmstead,
deceased, as its founder and inspiration, and to whose memory
Mount Royal Park, Montreal, is a beautiful monument, were
secured by the Railway Company to lay out the townsite. They
have provided a plan which is eminently satisfactory, and will en-
sure a practical development while preserving, for the future city,
splendid opportunities for parks, for municipal improvements, and
for architectural embellishment. It is believed by many who have