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Title: Canada, Britain's largest colony; with a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Haydon, Arthur Lincoln, 1872-
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Publisher: London, Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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, there is a summer track side by side withthe winter track. In the summer, therefore, whenthe line is not blocked by snow, the dark snow-sheds, which are in some places over two milesin length, are avoided, and the passenger can enjoyto the full the wonderful scenery around him. Snow Ploughs. While speaking of winter travelling in Canada,something must be s.aid about the snow ploughswhich are widely employed in clearing the trackson various railways. There arc two kinds of ploughs in use, theolder one being merely a huge shovel fixed in frontof the engine. This, of course, works effectuallyif the fall of snow is not too heavy, but agang of men is necessary to complete the workby banking up the snow which it throws on eachside. The more modern type is a locomotive speciallybuilt for the work, and fitted with an apparatusthat scatters the snow some distance away. Itsaction is something on the principle of a steam-shijis screw ):)ropeller, the blades of the snowplough revolving rapidly.
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A SLEEPING CAk, i...\.n.\uia.\ PACIFIC RAILWAY. 174 CANADA. It is a curious sight in the depth of winter tosee one of these big, powerfully built engines comingalong the line and sending up a great whirling cloudof snow before it. On the Train, Travelling on the Canadian Pacific Railway,as on all other lines in the Dominion, is renderedvery comfortable, and the journey of five daysacross the Continent is not so formidable as itmight appear. The trains themselves are builton the American plan, being composed of longopen cars, each having accommodation for sixtyor seventy people. The seats are in two rows, with an aisle run-ning down the middle of the car to a door at eitherend. Two persons alone occupy a seat, and thereis never any of the unpleasant overcrowdingthat is often experienced in English railwaycarriages. Among the disadvantages attached to this styleof travelling it may be noted that the cars arefrequently very hot or very draughty, and thepassenger may not always have the p

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