Reports on the Means of Improving the Present Harbour and the Construction of Docks at Montreal (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1859 Excerpt: ... TO THE HARBOUR COMMISSIONERS OF MONTREAL GENTLEMEN," The Report lately laid before the Harbour Commissioners of Montreal and a Committee of Citizens on Harbour Improvements, by Mr. Trautwine, embodies opinions in reference to the Public Works of Canada and the route of the St. Lawrence from the interior, as to their power of competition with the Canals of the State of New York for the vast and rapidly increasing trade between the Atlantic and the Western States of the Union, as well as of Western Canada, so utterly at variance with all previously expressed views on the same subjects, that I deem it my duty to point out what seem to me Mr. Trautwine's erroneous conclusions. I shall at the same time examine hi3 Report in reference to the construction of Docks at Montreal. On this subject, it is well known that I have always connected the subject of Docks at Montreal with the improvement of the St. Lawrence navigation from the Upper Lakes, and with the construction of a Canal to connect the waters of the St. Lawrence and Lake Champlain; and it is on this broad ground that I still urge the necessity of Docks, believing as I do that the whole subject must soon receive that attention from the Executive of Canada which its importance demands. I shall confine my attention to Mr. Trautwine's Second Report on Docks, as there is nothing in his first Report on the improvement of the present Harbour which calls for particular notice. The improvement of the Island Wharf has been under consideration by the Harbour Commissioners for some time and had been resolved on, and the mode of construction pointed out by Mr. Forsyth previous to Mr. T.'s arrival in Montreal. The plan suggested by Mr. Trautwine for the accommodation of the Ocean Steamers will not, in my opinion, upon ...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1859 Excerpt: ... TO THE HARBOUR COMMISSIONERS OF MONTREAL GENTLEMEN," The Report lately laid before the Harbour Commissioners of Montreal and a Committee of Citizens on Harbour Improvements, by Mr. Trautwine, embodies opinions in reference to the Public Works of Canada and the route of the St. Lawrence from the interior, as to their power of competition with the Canals of the State of New York for the vast and rapidly increasing trade between the Atlantic and the Western States of the Union, as well as of Western Canada, so utterly at variance with all previously expressed views on the same subjects, that I deem it my duty to point out what seem to me Mr. Trautwine's erroneous conclusions. I shall at the same time examine hi3 Report in reference to the construction of Docks at Montreal. On this subject, it is well known that I have always connected the subject of Docks at Montreal with the improvement of the St. Lawrence navigation from the Upper Lakes, and with the construction of a Canal to connect the waters of the St. Lawrence and Lake Champlain; and it is on this broad ground that I still urge the necessity of Docks, believing as I do that the whole subject must soon receive that attention from the Executive of Canada which its importance demands. I shall confine my attention to Mr. Trautwine's Second Report on Docks, as there is nothing in his first Report on the improvement of the present Harbour which calls for particular notice. The improvement of the Island Wharf has been under consideration by the Harbour Commissioners for some time and had been resolved on, and the mode of construction pointed out by Mr. Forsyth previous to Mr. T.'s arrival in Montreal. The plan suggested by Mr. Trautwine for the accommodation of the Ocean Steamers will not, in my opinion, upon ...

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General Books LLC

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United States

Release date

February 2012

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February 2012

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246 x 189 x 2mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

92

ISBN-13

978-0-217-21687-6

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9780217216876

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0-217-21687-0



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