People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — For a New Steamship Line. [ARTICLE]

For a New Steamship Line.

Ottawa, Ont., March 3. —The government has announced that tenders will be called for at an early date from persons or firms willing to undertake the running of a line of not less than four steamships between the St. Lawrence and a British port, Halifa being the Canadian terminus in winter. The vessels are required to make twenty-one knots in a six-hour trial trip and be capable of ordinary ocean steaming at a rate of twenty knots an hour. They will be of not less than 8,500 tons. The Canadian government will grant a subsidy of $750,000 a year, which the British government will supplement by an annual subvention of $350,000.