Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1889 — A RAILROAD TO HUDSON BAY. [ARTICLE]

A RAILROAD TO HUDSON BAY.

Application Made to the Canadian Parliament for a Charter. Canadian and American capitalists have applied to the Canadian Parliament for a charter for a railroad from the Canadian Soo to Hudson Bay. Recent discoveries of coal have been made on the Moose river, about 260 miles north of the Soo, by the stipendiary magistrate of that district, and some of it has been brought down for examination, creating no little interest in that unfamiliar land and exciting considerable comment. The road will be 370 miles in length and will cross the main line of the Canadian Pacific at Windermere, 107 miles due north of the Soo. The country is said to be rich in pine and minerals. The idea of the men interested is to open np this country and to build to Hudson Bay with a view to making a European route through the Hudson straits. The distance is one-third less than the much talked of route from Winnipeg. The Dominion government will be asked for aid and a surveying party will start out from here Jan. I under the direction of Joseph Fozens, a well-known Canadian engineer. The line will give the Canadian Pacific a cut- off to the water.