People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1896 — Canadians Want a New Canal. [ARTICLE]

Canadians Want a New Canal.

Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 19.—Projectors of the Ottawa and Georgian bay ship canal interviewed Sir Mackenzie Bowell with a view to obtaining Dominion government aid. They pointed out that to deepen the waterways of the Ottawa and French rivers and Lake Niplsslng to a'depth of fourteen feet would necessitate the construction of but sixteen miles of actual canal work. It was pointed out that the new route would shorten the distance between Montreal and Lake Superior by 368 miles, as compared with the St. Lawrence and Welland canal route. As compared with the route to New York via Buffalo and the Erie canal, a decrease of 435 miles would be effected.