Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1858 — Canal Through the Rocky Mountains. [ARTICLE]

Canal Through the Rocky Mountains.

During the recent debate iuLihe British House of Commons, on the subject of tlhe removal of the Hudson Bay Company’s privilege, Lord Bury affirmed that communication might readily* be established- between Lake Superior and the Pacific Ocean, by means of a ship canal connecting the head waters of the Saskatchewan and Columbia rivets. Both rivers take their rise in the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia flowing west to the Pacific, and the Saskatchewan irunningi west t.o Lake W innepeg,a little ito the nprtb-west of Luke Superior., With the exception of a single rapid (.which might be avoided by a canal) his Jordshiji stated that the navigation of the Saskatchewan olffers no difficulty. With thatone exception, a ■vesspl of considerable sice can he taken ulp to the foot of the Rocky mountains, and at ■this point there is a gap in tlie mountains, which would interpose no great obstacle to the junction of tiie Columbia-arid Saskatchewan. whose sources are-but a little distance opart. Thus a direct water communicationi •wouldboestablished with the Pacific. i f