Mr. KAULBACH.
Is the hon. gentleman not getting two-one known as the government road, and one voted to-day ?
Mr. FRASER.
Not at all, except at Port Mulgrave, where two lines run through a corner of the county.
Mr. KAULBACH.
The hon. gentleman knows that the road subsidized to-day almost parallels the Intercolonial.
Mr. FRASER.
Excuse me ; it leaves the Intercolonial, and when it reaches Country Harbour it will be fifty or sixty miles from it.
Mr. WADE.
The hon. gentleman might have asked for one of these roads when his party was in power.
Mr. KAULBACH.
I did ask for the road from New Germany to Shelburne, and the subsidy was voted and construction done.
My constituents are interested in this railway, and I agree with the hon. gentleman that I would rather have two roads in my constituency
than not have any ; hut I do not expect to get two roads in a hurry, and X shall he very glad to get one. If the hon. gentleman takes a rule and applies it to the map, he will find that from Halifax to the Central Railway, running near New Germany, is about seventy miles which is the subsidy we have provided for this section. At the same time, if the companies propose to consolidate these various sections into one through line, prefer to keep to the shore instead of going inland, X am bound to say that I would rather see a road on the shore than none at all. We do not propose to tie ourselves up to a route in either direction, but leave that to be decided by the companies on commercial grounds. I hope soon to see a road built to New Germany and run south through Queen's county, and I have no doubt that will be taken up to some extent by the new enterprise. In the meantime, we are glad to get one road, and the second one will come in due course.
Mr. KATJLBACH.
But my hon. friend will see that a road from Halifax through New Germany, North Brookfield and Caledonia to Shelburne, will give us a direct route ; and it would be much more useful to the public than the other route. Surely, my hon. friend is not in a position to say that that road can be built, and be as useful for the public generally as the road I suggest from Caledonia, through to Shelburne.
The road from New Germany to Shelburne is under contract at this moment, but the company is not able to carry on the work.
Mr. KAULBACH.
By this you will he shutting them out.
No, I am not.
For a line of railway from a point on the Algoma branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway, at or near Bruce Lake Station northerly, to a point at or near Rock Lake, in the district of Algoma, not exceeding nine miles, $28,800.
Mr. HUGHES (Victoria).
Where is Rock Lake ?
It is nine or ten miles north of Bruce station.
Hon. Mr. HAGGART.
Who is asking for this ?
Two copper mine companies, which, I understand, are very prosperous, and employ a great many men.
For a line of railway from Roberval, Quebec, westward toward James Bay, not exceeding sixty miles, $192,000.
There are several large rivers falling from the north and west into Lake St. John. All these rivers make very fertile valleys into which
Mr. FIELDING.
colonists are rapidly going, and the object is to project this railway from Roberval, which is the extreme point of the Lake St. John road, towards James Bay, in the valley of the river.
For a line of railway from a point upon the Stonewall branch or the Selkirk branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway to Icelandic River by way of Gimli, not exceeding thirty-five miles, $112,000.
Mr. McCREARY.
This is an extension of the Selkirk branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Canadian Pacific Railway nuns to West Selkirk, and last year that company built a branch from West Selkirk to tap the south end of Lake Winnipeg for the purpose of establishing a summer resort. This railway will run from the end of that branch up to where six or seven thousand Icelanders have settled. It will be thirty-five miles long, and run through a rich well-wooded country, and enable the settlers to clear up their lands. The local government of Manitoba have had, through their agent, five Icelander delegates from North Dakota, go up there to inspect the lands, and as the result we will have 4,000 or 5,000 people from North Dakota to settle in that district at a very early date.
Mr. MONK.
Is it the Canadian Pacific Railway that will build it ?
Mr. McCREARY.
Yes.