may be completed in good time before the opening of the railway.
It will be situated on a prominent location facing the harbor, from
which a magnificent view can be obtained of the beautiful scenery
surrounding it.

The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company has also made an
agreement with the Dominion Government for the construction
of a floating Dry Dock at Prince Rupert, under the terms of
which it receives a subsidy for a period of twenty-five years of
344% on the cost of the dock, which will approximate $2,200,000.
This dock will have a lifting capacity of 20,000 tons, sufficient to
dock the largest vessel sailing from Pacific ports, and will be the
largest of its kind constructed on the American continent. A Ship
Repair Plant will be constructed in connection with the dock, so
that Prince Rupert will be fully equipped to dock and repair any
ship in Pacific waters. The construction of the dry dock has
already been commenced, a number of contracts in connection
with which having been let, so that it will be available for use
within a few months.

The Grand Trunk Pacific Coast Steamship Company, Limited,
placed in service in June, 1910, between Seattle, Victoria, Van-
couver and Prince Rupert, the handsome new twin-screw steam-
ships “Prince Rupert” and ‘“‘Prince George,” which were specially
constructed for this service and are the finest and most luxurious
steamships in the North Pacific service, containing all the latest
improvements, including oil burners for the use of fuel oil, which

renders them practically smokeless, thereby adding greatly to
the comfort and pleasure of passengers on the open deck. They
provide a bi-weekly service between Prince Rupert and Puget
Sound. There are also other lines of steamers between Prince
Rupert and Vancouver, so that there are almost daily sailings
between these ports.

Prince Rupert has many advantages. It has a mild climate.
It is new and attractive. It is to be a model city in every sense
of the word. It guards what is said to be the finest natural har-
bor on the coast, if not in the world. It is the terminal town of
a Transcontinental Railway, which bids fair to surpass anything
ever attempted in the way of railway construction on this Conti-
nent, crossing from ocean to ocean without a single mile of moun-
tain grade, or grade that can, by any stretch of imagination, be
considered an obstacle to the economical operation of the road,

Prince Rupert is also at the end of the long portage on the
shortest route around the world. Any scheme which has for its
ultimate object the swift circling of the sphere must reckon Prince
Rupert on its right-of-way.

To this new port will come the ships of the Seven Seas. Ships
of the East, laden with silk and rice, will soon be riding at anchor
in this splendid harbor, to sail away laden with lumber; ships
from the West with the wares of the West; ships from the shores